Elephant Letters

**Elephant Letters** (Swedish: ***Elefantbokstäver***) is an animation series in *Fem myror*, consisting of 27 segments where two elephants, one big and one small, display the letter of the day in uppercase and lowercase, as the title suggests.

For each segment (most, but not all), a large elephant (wearing a black derby) enters the screen with an uppercase letter and reading the letter. Then, a small elephant (wearing a yellow propeller cap) enters the screen, presenting a lowercase letter in a uniquely different way, and then reading the letter.

One unique segment has both elephants displaying the uppercase and lowercase letter A and saying the letter together. The small elephant blows two bubbles from his trunk above the A's to form the letter Å (as read by the big elephant). Then the big elephant lifts his hat, releasing four colored balls bouncing atop the A's, forming letter Ä (as read by the small elephant).

Any background color is represented by one of the two ending musics. If it is yellow (for the letters C, D, G, H ...) or red (exclusively for F), the music is a short bass clarinet tune. If it is blue (for the letters A, B, E, I ...), the music is a song consisting of four synthesized horn notes, followed by a tubular bell note.

## Enhanced Segments

These Enhanced Segments Were Used During Season 1 and 3

* A - The Platform is Black and the Background Color is Cyan As Well as the Animation Being Uncropped
* K - The Platform, Background Color and The Elephants are in a Lower Contrast As Well Being Uncropped
* L - Same as K
* O - Same as K and L
* S - Same as K, L and O But the Animation for the Big Elephant going Around to Turn the Uppercase S is Not Used but Faded in

## W segment

At that time, W was not part of the Swedish alphabet, until 2006, with the same going for the Julkalender season, along with the show's alphabet animations.

In December 2021, during the Julkalender event, YouTuber Anthony Vesce, then known as "Teletubbies and Friends Letter Segments", created W as a fanmade segment (made with Cute Cut for iPad) with English robotic voices of Microsoft Sam and Mary, but the channel was "terminated" later in the month due to copyright reasons from SVT. In May 2022, Vesce (also known as "Little Elephant") recreated the animation and provided the vocals for the Swedish name for the letter, but by the end of the month, the video was "blocked" for the same reason as the previous. According to Anthony, he admitted in a comment (On the Owner of the Wiki (Scoop Guy 2023)'s Channel) that his video wasn't blocked, but he deleted it.

On October 2022, Scoop Guy Ceations (Formerly Scoop Guy 2022 II and Scoop Guy 2023 (He'll still retain the Previous name in the credits in Voice Acting)) (NOTE: It's Still the same Creator of this Wiki) recreated his poor variant of the W segment, using borrowed footages from segments L and P and no recorded voices.

## Trivia

* C and Ö are the only segments in which both elephants take turns saying the letter consecutively before the ending music.
* C, D, G, L, P, X, Y, and Ö are the only segments that don't start with a plain background.
	+ L is the only blue background segment among them.
* R is the only segment that after the ending music plays, an animation happens.
* U is the only segment to end a segment with only letters, from which the elephants turn into.
* On Vimeo, Tran Le uploaded an abridged version of the V segment, starting with the big elephant saying "V", and ends with the little elephant swiping the V from it, making it lowercase.
* In the Series' Finale Episode and in the VHS/DVD Releases Has 2 Segments to be Used

## Error

* In the B segment, the little elephant changes animation with the big elephant says "B", and the small b isn't properly aligned with the big B.
* In the H segment The Springs on the Little H Glide when it's about to Jump and Also Float before it touch the Ground
* In the I segment, the elephants mouths don't move when they say the letter.
	+ The little elephant does the same error when saying "r" in the R segment.
* In the J segment, the big elephant mispronounces J and the English G.
* In the M segment, when the little elephant whistles, its eyes are gray.
* In the enhanced version of the S segment, part of the animation is skipped, making it look like the big elephant fades through the big S.
* In the V segment, when the big elephant gets the bigger V For a brief moment the little elephant sinks a little bit into the platform for a brief moment if you look closely and then gets back in the same on the same position at the end of the segment
* In the X segment, right as the Big X Collapses Most of the Big Elephant's Ear is Missing
* In the Ö segment, before the Little Elephant Blows into the cigar he vanishes for Frame

## Season 1 Ordering

When The Series Aired First in 1973 the ordering of the Alphabet was Possibly:

* 1 - A
* 2 - B
* 3 - E
* 4 - I
* 5 - K
* 6 - L
* 7 - M
* 8 - O
* 9 - R
* 10 - S
* 11 - C
* 12 - D
* 13 - F
* 14 - G
* 15 - H
* 16 - J
* 17 - N
* 18 - P
* 19 - Q
* 20 - T
* 21 - U
* 22 - V
* 23 - X
* 24 - Y
* 25 - Z
* 26 - Å
* 27 - Ä
* 28 - Ö
* 29 - A Å Ä
* 30 - A-Ö

It was due to the Blue **Elephant Letters** Animations came first then the Yellow Ones (including F Which had the Red one)