Partridge Films (90's British Film Company)

Partridge Films was a 90's British media company, producing animal-related films. It also had a mascot, a green lizard named Harry, who would appear in most films. It won several awards, and even partnered with Wildscreen ARKive for a short while. It also had a series called 'Animal Alphabet', where there were 26 exotic animals, each with their own song. Given its success, sooner than later, it would have a French Counterpart, Animalalphabetes, sometimes added an accent. As well as language change, it had three other differences, Armadillos were changed to Antelopes, and Uakaris to Urubu. Also, Anton Mullan was a singer as well as Babette Lhospice, who did most of the singing. After this, they created 'Animal Numbers', with numbers 1-10 and 0. However, a French dub exists too, named 'Aninombres'. Interestingly, the DVD is difficult to run into online. Worldcat lists it in the National Library in France. The English dub, however, is very easy to come across.

So far, the only footage of this clip exists is of the credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMbn1xSGmYg WARNING: Contains quick flashes for sensitive eyes!

It seems okay to guess that this wasn't as heavily changed as Animalalphabetes was. Also, Babette seems to take a major singing role again.

As far as we know, it seems someone owns a VHS copy of the full thing.

To add to the mystery, Animal Alphabet is said to have been made in 6 different languages. The page lists Spanish, Portugese, and German. This means English and French are only the surface, and a 6th language exists as well. It's possible to assume this would've been another European language, safely to assume Italian. A copy of Aninombres is said to exist in the National Library of France. Surely enough, three copies are listed on the website.

It is unclear why the dubs are hard to find, but one plausible reason is because of little knowledge about the programs. They were probably, at their sole existences, sold temporarily as DVD releases, and when Partridge was eventually taken over by ITV, by this time, the dubs had disappeared.

Though the dubs of Animal Alphabet are hard to come across, they don't seem to be lost, and seem to be kept in ITV's archive. In which, both the Portuguese dub and the Spanish dub are said to exist, but the German dub wasn't found. This may hint that: a) The German dub is poorly archived, or b) It never did exist. The same was said about the unspecified dub. Interestingly, the Animal Alphabet itself can be found in Germany, but solely the English dub.

Dub	Status
English	Found
French	Found
Spanish	Confirmed
Portugese	Confirmed
German	Lost
?	Lost