Hi guys.
4 and 14 are often declared as the most interesting German story tapes of rainbow brite so I decided to start with a translation for tape no. 4.
Highly likely my translation will be slow but I hope I can add new parts from time to time. Depends if I have enough free time.
My plan is :
5 minutes of tape = one post ( will be edited quite often cause I ll do 1 minute blocks )

OK ... here we go !

Tape 4

"Rainbow brite" and the end of the rainbow

(theme)

Directly under the rainbow painter "Stubbs" flounced around.
("Stups" is only a name with no specific meaning but it can mean :nudge,push,shove ...
there is also the so called "Stupsnase" which means "snub nose or upturned nose")
He was a tall and thin man wearing tiny glasses on his nose and he did not only carry
brush and paints with him but also a goat which he coloured blue,green and red and
a parrot which originally was white but now had a blue and a red wing and kelly-green tail feathers.

(Sounds:) bleating of the goat,whistling made by the painter,rustling (grass)

Time: 1:00

painter Stups :
(playful and cheerful)

Sooo ... and this flower "green" !
greeen,greeen,greeen so greeen so green so green (sing-song)
ahahahaha ( laughter ) ( bleating in the background )
These green colour crystals are better than all of my other paints.
ehehehehe ( short pleased laughter )

Parrot "Dora" :
( cawing )

Green like the grass !!!

painter Stups :
( uneasy )

Green like the grass ? Geez! What have I just done ?
( sounds of galloping in the background )
But the flowers may not be green.
"Dora" I am such a fool !

Parrot "Dora" :
( cawing )

fool ... dork ... brush ... blob !!!

painter Stups :
( a little exhorting )

woe-woe-woe my dear "Dora" ... I ve to ask for a little more respect !
welladay ... I let well enough alone these flowers !
Hee ( quick chuckling laughter ) How do I think about that then ???
magnificent ... really magnificent ... what a great green ... hahaha ( laughter )
(bleating in the background)
I think I am a genius !

(Incidentally Rainbow and Twink appear on the back of starlite which the listener could ve guessed cause of the galloping-sound in the background )

Twink : Ohgod-ohgod-ohgod !!! All is green !!! ( bleating )

Rainbow : Hello! What are you doing there?

Time : 2:00

Sorry if anyone should be interested in reading more.
Sunspire and Rainbow Brite UK contacted me and told me that they think my translation of tape 4
collides with the story tape project ... so I ve to stop now.

I ll try to translate the tape privately and will hand over the translation to sunspire.
So tape 4 can be set to music sometime.
Cross fingers for me ... hope I have enough free time ! ^^

Yeah, welcome aboard the team!

I very much appreciate your effort tom-sprite and I want you to know that!! And while everyone else will have to wait a bit longer tho, it'll blow them away once they get to hear and read the final result!

Plus, it's great to have a 2nd native german speaker for this project, this will hopefully speed things up considerably! Thanks again!!

"SunSpire"

No problem ... it s funny to go through the tape/text and translate.
Reminds me so much of the time when I listened to this tape in the 80s. :-)))
Hope I find a lot of free time for this translation. ;-)
It s somehow a little intimidating to see the amount of text you get out of only one minute tape. :-))))))))))

no kidding! ... that's partly the reason why I had put it off so many times in the past. But life's been a crazy one for sure so I guess that's understandable. What's worse is that many particular situations in the story cannot be translated 1:1 as they would simply lose all meaning to them. So in the few occasions that I DID work on the tapes I got stuck trying to figure out how to word certain things.

I hope all the people who showed their interest in voicing the characters in the 2nd tape are still up to it. I shall send out the transcripts ASAP so we can get this going again!

"SunSpire"

Thanks so much for helping with this project, Tom!! This is gonna be great

@ Sun :

It s hard work and it is difficult but the same time also fun !

@ Katy :

My pleasure!
I hope all will turn out great Katy !
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I managed to translate 6 minutes by now ... wow this is really alot of text !!! :-)))
But I won t give up ... everytime I have enough free time I ll go on with my translation.

I managed to translate 25% of tape 4 by now !
Ten minutes ! :-D The script has 13 pages ...
Three times this amount of work again and I am through ! ^^
I had a lot of free time yesterday and today and it was fun to translate the story.
I hope I find a lot of free time the following days too. ;-)

Wow, that's awesome!! ... At that rate, we'll maybe get a few tapes done this year!!!
I've been busy translating too, and going to contact people about the 2nd script. TheZorker has already started recording his lines for Starlite and Lurky!

"SunSpire"