Elfy food - lost obscure british cartoon network cartoon
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Elfy food is a British animated mini-series that was produced by Turner Broadcasting for Cartoon Network UK in response to the Choosing Health White Paper published in November 2004.
The six 2-minute cartoons featured 5 healthy-eating elves that were on a mission to retrieve magical foods.
Its purpose was to promote "the virtues of fresh fruit and vegetables to a pre-teen audience".
The mini-series, which was created to deflect criticism for screening junk food advertisements and combating childhood obesity, took 18 months to develop at a cost of £250,000.
The show was also supported by children's charities including Barnardo's, ChildLine and Mencap, and produced in consultation with Great Ormond Street children's hospital.
The series was offered to terrestrial broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4 for free. During production, Ofcom and the Food Standards Agency were consulted in the hopes that the Department of Health and other government departments would use the cartoon characters in their own healthy eating campaigns.
Turner Broadcasting has also that its strategy is to persuade the watchdog, Ofcom, that broadcasters should be allowed to continue advertising what it insists are "legal" sugary and fatty foods if they also promote healthy eating.
"We want it to last a long time, because our audience is renewed every year, so we made a lot of the story elements very traditional - setting up obstacles that characters overcome and the forces of good and evil battling together."
-Richard Kilgarriff, the general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks.
For a week in October 2005, Turner Broadcasting broadcast an episode every hour during peak time on Europe in October on three channels: the Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami.
The series was also shown in Europe and the US.
The animation will also be shown in Europe and the US.
Each episode featured a different fruit or vegetable, each of which imbued the elves with different superpowers.
The show's motto was "Once we've eaten, we can't be beaten."
The six 2-minute cartoons featured 5 healthy-eating elves that were on a mission to retrieve magical foods.
Its purpose was to promote "the virtues of fresh fruit and vegetables to a pre-teen audience".
The mini-series, which was created to deflect criticism for screening junk food advertisements and combating childhood obesity, took 18 months to develop at a cost of £250,000.
The show was also supported by children's charities including Barnardo's, ChildLine and Mencap, and produced in consultation with Great Ormond Street children's hospital.
The series was offered to terrestrial broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4 for free. During production, Ofcom and the Food Standards Agency were consulted in the hopes that the Department of Health and other government departments would use the cartoon characters in their own healthy eating campaigns.
Turner Broadcasting has also that its strategy is to persuade the watchdog, Ofcom, that broadcasters should be allowed to continue advertising what it insists are "legal" sugary and fatty foods if they also promote healthy eating.
"We want it to last a long time, because our audience is renewed every year, so we made a lot of the story elements very traditional - setting up obstacles that characters overcome and the forces of good and evil battling together."
-Richard Kilgarriff, the general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks.
For a week in October 2005, Turner Broadcasting broadcast an episode every hour during peak time on Europe in October on three channels: the Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami.
The series was also shown in Europe and the US.
The animation will also be shown in Europe and the US.
Each episode featured a different fruit or vegetable, each of which imbued the elves with different superpowers.
The show's motto was "Once we've eaten, we can't be beaten."