Storyboard for Dora the Explorer title sequence
date: label: date made
content: 2002
name: label: producer
content: Nickelodeon
label: maker
content: Nickelodeon
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand-drawn storyboard used in the production of the main title sequence of the Nickelodeon animated television series Dora the Explorer. The storyboard shows "thumbnail" sketches of key shots in the animation sequence that was used as the series' opening. The sequential sketches, drawn in blank ink boxes, include shots showing characters Dora, Boots, and Tico jumping into a car and driving amongst anthropomorphic stars and Diego surfing. The sketches are drawn in pencil within the printed black boxes with pencil annotations and voiceover prompts beneath printed prompts for the Show #, Scene, and Date at the top of the sheet of white paper. The storyboard bears a stamp in red ink reading "REVISED" along with the date 9-4-02 written in pencil.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Dora the Explorer was an animated children's television series that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 2000-2014, with a final season of six episodes airing in 2019 to help promote the franchise's first feature film, Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The educational series was created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Dora the Explorer was notable for its Latina lead character, inclusion of Spanish language, and representation of Latino cultural themes, and the series was both a critical and ratings success. Each episode of the show found seven-year old Dora Marquez embarking on an adventure and asking audience members to help her along the way. The series' creators developed Dora as a bilingual, pan-Latino character after learning about the lack of Latino/a representation in children's television. Dora got her name from the Spanish feminine word for "explorer"- exploradora. The television series' success spawned spinoff series, foreign language adaptations, stage productions, video games, a live action feature film, and dozens of books, games, and toys.
topic: label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Nickelodeon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2020.0064.04
label: accession number
content: 2020.0064
label: catalog number
content: 2020.0064.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: storyboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm