Jean Tourane

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Jean Tourane (1919 - 1986) was a French filmmaker known for his footage of small animals. His birth name was Jean Briel. Among others he filmed a television series about a small duck named "Saturnin" during the 1960s. In the 1990s, clips from this series were merged into a new series called Dynamo Duck, which aired on Fox Kids in the United States.

Tourane started his professional career as a painter and photographer of small animals, and moved from photograpgy into film. After making a number of shorts, he made the first full length Saturnin movie, and was in 1964 awarded a contract for 78 television episodes with French television.

He was also for a time the mayor of the commune of Le Val-Saint-Germain in Essonne department, France.

[edit] Selected Filmography

• 1955 Saturnin Et La Fee Pas Comme Les Autr Director
• 1956 Une Fee Pas Comme Les Autres Director
• 1962 Secret of Outer Space Island Director
• 1964 The Secret of Magic Island Director / Screenwriter

[edit] References

This article is based in part on material from the French Wikipedia.

[edit] External links

• Jean Tourane at the Internet Movie Database
• "Photographs by Tourane Jean"