Sesemann to send the girl back to her Alps before she dies of homesickness. The doctor diagnoses Heidi's condition and persuades Mr. Sesemann, with the aid of the doctor, catch Heidi in the middle of the night. Summoned home to deal with the haunting, Mr. Forbidden by Miss Rottenmeier to ever mention or even think of the Alps again, Heidi rapidly goes into a decline, eventually becoming a sleep-walker, whose passage through the hallways is mistaken for that of a ghost, terrorizing the household. However, the old woman's departure home again proves a turning point for Heidi. Under her kindly tutelage, Heidi finally learns how to read, to the astonishment of the tutor who has struggled for months to do the same. On one of her rare visits to Frankfurt, she and Heidi become fast friends. Clara's doctor befriends her, and occasionally keeps a benevolent eye on her, but it is Clara's grandmother that has the most impact. She smuggles a small kitten into the house, and she and Clara care for it until Miss Rottenmeier discovers it and has it thrown out, until Sebastian, the kindly butler, is able to leave the kitten with a friend. Heidi's longing to return home and occasional attempts to escape are punctuated by the occasional distractions of new friends. Her father is mostly away on business, and Clara's only constant companions until now are the servants and her pet canary. Clara is enchanted by Heidi's stories of the Alps, which paint a picture of a life completely different from the sheltered and lonely one she is accustomed to. Heidi and Clara quickly become friends, and Heidi quickly turns the household topsy-turvy with her escapades and well-meaning faux pas. There, Dete abandons her to the "care" of Miss Rottenmeier, the strict, no-nonsense governess in charge of Clara's welfare. Promised that she can return at any time, Heidi is taken to Frankfurt. Thwarted by Alm-Onji, Dete tricks Heidi into accompanying her, ostensibly to get a present for Peter and her grandfather. Sesemann, is searching for a companion for his wheelchair-bound daughter Clara. Heidi continues to live happily in the mountains until Aunt Dete returns from the city, excited about a good opportunity for Heidi. Alm-Onji's misanthropy and seclusion prevents Heidi from going to school, of which she has no experience anyway, ultimately leaving her illiterate. She spends her days on the mountain top with the goatherd Peter, whose responsibility it is to take the villagers' goats to the high mountains for pasture, and her winters occasionally visiting Peter's grandmother, a blind old woman whose dream is to one day hear her cherished book of psalms read to her. However, Heidi quickly wins her way into his heart with her enthusiasm and intelligence, firmly establishing herself in his life. Now he lives a solitary life with his dog Josef in a cabin halfway up the mountain. Alm-Onji, as Heidi's grandfather is commonly known, has a fearsome reputation with the villagers of Dörfli, as rumors claim that in his youth he killed a man. The only relative left is Heidi's grandfather, and in Dete's opinion, he should take some responsibility. Dete has found a promising job in Frankfurt, but cannot leave while still Heidi's guardian, nor can she take Heidi with her. Heidi is five years old when her aunt Dete, who has raised Heidi since her parents' deaths four years earlier, takes Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps. South African Afrikaans version and English-South African theme single.The feature-length film edit of the TV series, released in March 1979, was engineered completely by Zuiyo, with no additional involvement from Nippon Animation, Takahata or Miyazaki. (which employed the anime's production staff and continued with the World Masterpiece Theater franchise) and Zuiyo Company, Ltd., which retained the rights (and debt) to the Heidi TV series. The animation studio responsible for Heidi, Zuiyo Enterprises, would split in 1975 into Nippon Animation Company, Ltd. Heidi is one of several World Masterpiece Theater titles produced around the "classical children's literature period" (1974–1997), based on classic tales from the Western world. It was directed by Isao Takahata and features contributions by numerous other anime filmmakers, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation director), Toyoo Ashida (co-character design, animation director), Yoshiyuki Tomino (storyboard, screenplay), and Hayao Miyazaki (scene design, layout, screenplay). Heidi, Girl of the Alps ( Japanese: アルプスの少女ハイジ, Hepburn: Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji ) is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Eizo and is based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880).
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