It was a dream of Hergé: to see his comics made into films. A dream that he saw come true a few times. The first time immediately after the Second World War, when a puppet film was made. Fifteen years later, on a larger scale, with The Secret of the Golden Fleece and Tintin and the Blue Oranges, two films with actors were made for which new scripts were written. At the end of the 1960s a new attempt was made by Raymond Leblanc, publisher of the weekly magazine Tintin. The soundtracks by François Rauber (with the voice of Jacques Brel) were highly praised, but the films, like the previous productions, had much to criticize.

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