Mel-O-Toons Christopher Columbus (1960)
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00:00Musique de la marseillaise
00:18Vrombissement du moteur
00:29Cinquante ans, il y avait des gens sur les deux côtés de l'océan Atlantique,
00:34mais aucun ne connaissait l'autre.
00:36Sur le côté ouest, notre côté,
00:38les gens avaient des peaux rouges et bleues et vivaient dans des huts ou des wigwams.
00:43Sur le côté ouest, en Europe, les gens avaient des peaux blanches.
00:47Ils avaient appris à construire des maisons et de grandes bateaux,
00:50mais ils ne savaient pas grand-chose du reste du monde.
00:53En fait, la plupart d'entre eux croyaient que la Terre était plate.
00:57Un jour, un mapmaker nommé Christopher Columbus avait une idée.
01:02Do you know what?
01:04I think the world isn't flat at all, I think it's round like a ball.
01:09Did you hear what he said? Did you hear what he said?
01:11He said that the world is round.
01:13Oh, he's crazy.
01:16I think the world isn't flat at all, I think it's round like a ball.
01:21The world's as flat as the brim of your hat, and that is very plain.
01:26I know that I'm right, oh, I know that I'm right
01:28when I say that the world is round.
01:30I know that I'm right, oh, I know that I'm right.
01:33My thinking is sound, and I'll prove the world's round.
01:36It won't take very long.
01:39But it did take long.
01:40Seven long years before Columbus could convince a king or a queen
01:44to let him try out his idea.
01:46Then Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to supply the ships and men for his trip.
01:52I will discover a shortcut to India
01:55and bring back some of the great wealth I find there.
01:58And I can do it, for I know the world is round.
02:02And instead of going east to India,
02:04I shall sail west and reach India around the other way.
02:08It will be a shorter and cheaper way, for I'll do it all by sea.
02:13Queen Isabella provided Columbus with three ships,
02:16the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
02:19And on August 3, 1492, they set sail across the unknown Atlantic.
02:26High on the foaming tide, over the ocean,
02:35Onward our ships will ride, onward my sailors.
02:44The ships sailed onward.
02:46But two long months after they started,
02:49there was still no sign of land ahead.
02:52Turn back Columbus, turn back Columbus.
03:02We'll not turn back until we find India.
03:05Onward men!
03:07By October 10, the sailors and the crew were ready to take matters into their own hands.
03:12If Columbus won't do as we ask, we'll put him in chains.
03:15And we'll turn the ships around ourselves.
03:17Wait! Have you heard?
03:19One of our men has just seen a branch in the ocean.
03:22What of it?
03:23It had fresh berries on it.
03:25That means we're near land.
03:27Hooray!
03:28Two days later, the ships reached land,
03:31and Columbus and his crew saw the people with reddish-brown skins who lived there.
03:36Oh, I think it is rather surprising that they should have reddish-brown skins.
03:42But now since we have landed in India, then these people must be Indians.
03:48We'll call this part of India San Salvador,
03:52and I take possession of it in the name of the King and Queen of Spain.
03:59The people Columbus called Indians were very friendly,
04:02and they gave Columbus and his men many gifts,
04:05but not the rich jewels and gold for which they had come.
04:09For Columbus really wasn't in India at all.
04:12He was on one of the islands off the coast of America.
04:15But because of Columbus's mistake, the natives of America have been called Indians ever since.
04:21Columbus visited other islands near San Salvador looking for the great wealth of India,
04:26and then he and some of his men returned to Spain.
04:29Hooray!
04:31Hooray for Admiral Christopher Columbus!
04:34Hooray!
04:35Columbus had no trouble getting ships and men for his second voyage,
04:39but he still hadn't the slightest idea that he was headed for the vast continent of America
04:44and that he would have had to cross it and sail over the Pacific Ocean
04:47before he could reach India by traveling west.
04:50The men of Europe were no longer afraid of the ocean.
04:54Columbus made two more voyages, and other explorers followed.
04:58But each year on October 12th, we celebrate Columbus Day,
05:03the anniversary of that day in 1492,
05:07when Columbus first sighted the land of the new world, America.
05:14Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada