[REL] Comptines (1975) short [Canada]

[saroyan]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072811/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JY5gHDaoU

[lara]

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[donkeykog]

In French/NO subs

[kev]

In French/NO subs

And no subs needed..

Pretty much a collection of vignette's of 2 or 3 different groups of girls skipping rope, tossing balls, and all-around having fun. A couple of boo-hoo moments here or there, but no discernible storyline what-so-ever...

I love to watch children at play, so at roughly 11 mins it was a bit short for me..

Let me throw in my thanks also to saroyan and lara for filling up our 'shorts' coffers once again!!

kev.

[Phuzzy4242]

Comptines means rhymes, and that's what you were getting - "eeny meeny miney moe", jump rope cadences, etc.

[donkeykog]

Thanks guys for the explaination! I would have put "no subs needed", but I did not get it cause I was looking for deeper meaning. Sometimes, its so simple, it goes over my head

[reastavachi]

May I ?
As a natural French speaker, some more explanations need to be made about the word "Comptine". It means a bit more than just rhymes... and has nothing to do with "sound and pronounciation" games, if I may say so.

Compter, the verb at the origin of the word Comptine, means "count". A "Comptine" is a little song/poem that has to involve some counting.
One of the most famous French comptines goes :
1,2,3,
nous irons au bois
4,5,6,
cueillir des cerises
7,8,9,
dans mon panier neuf
10,11,12,
elles seront toutes rouges !

which means
1,2,3,
Lets go to the woods
4,5,6,
and pick up cherries
7,8,9,
in my brand new basket
10,11,12,
they'll be shining red !

But you also need to know that the lines rhyme by pairs : 3/bois 6/cerises 9/neuf and 12/red (to be true they don't match that well lol)

Hope this helped. Most of the time, nowadays, the word Comptine is misused for any popular little children songs, though.

Peace
Reasta

[donkeykog]

Cool reastavachi! Thx. So then the "1,2, Freddy's coming for you, 3,4, better lock your door" is a Comptine You just learned me something!

[reastavachi]

You totally got it, donkeykog !
I'm happy I was not too boring with this explanation lol !