(11 Aug 2025)
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Tampere, Finland – 9 August 2025
1. Mid of statue of a Moomin crowned with a wreath
2. Wide of people taking photos
3. Close of Moomin puppets
4. Wide of woman posing for photo near Moomin statue
5. Moomin characters hugging children
6. Man taking photo
7. Wide of Moomin characters hugging children
8. Lizzie and Rosa Senn taking pictures of Moomins
9. Lizzie and Rosa Senn posing with Moomin characters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosa Senn:
“Moomins have been such a special thing in my life, my whole life. My mom is from Norway and she was a huge fan from a tiny little girl. And she read all the stories to us, to me and my sister. And I just carried that love for Moomin, and Tove Jansson, with me into my adult life.”
11. Wide of Stefanie and Michael Geutebrück posing for photos with Moomin characters
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefanie Geutebrück:
“I am a total fan and now he’s a total fan and our apartment looks like a Moomin shop.”
13. Michael Geutebrück holding Moomin puppet
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Helsinki, Finland – 19 November 2024
14. Wide of visitors looking Jansson’s Moomin books
15. Close of Jansson’s book, title reading (Swedish): "The Moomins and the Great Flood"
16. Woman looking at books
17. Close of woman turning pages
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Helsinki, Finland – 7 August 2025
18. Wide of Sirke Happonen speaking
19. Close of Sirke Happonen showing Jansson’s first book “The Moomins and the Great Flood”
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Helsinki, Finland – 19 November 2024
20. Close of Tove Jansson self-portrait
Helsinki, Finland – 7 August 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sirke Happonen, associate professor at the University of Helsinki:
“But her first Moomin book came out in a dark era. She felt it was very difficult to paint, and she started writing what she called a fairy tale, but she excused herself not to include princesses or princes, but chose her angry signature character, called Moomintroll, to be the main figure.”
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Helsinki, Finland – 19 November 2024
22. Close of Moomin painting
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Helsinki, Finland – 7 August 2025
23. Sirke Happonen showing book
24. Sirke Happonen showing book
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Sirke Happonen, associate professor at the University of Helsinki:
“It was the time when Soviets attacked Finland, and I think she wanted to make a contrast. Tove Jansson loved contrasts. By writing about this beautiful world, full of friendship and love.”
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Helsinki, Finland – 19 November 2024
26. Close of painting with Moomins
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Tampere, Finland – 9 August 2025
27. Child looking at Moomin house at the Moomin Museum
28. Close of house
29. Child looking
30. Wide of exhibition
31. Wide of Moomin house
32. Close of Moomin inside house
33. Pan of screen showing animated content
34. Moomin animated film exhibit with subtitles reading (Finnish) approximate translation:
"All beings, big and small, crave acceptance, love, friendship, and a place to call home."
35. Selma Green looking at Moomin House
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Selma Green, Moomin Museum director:
“They sell very well and people have an interest in the Moomins. And in a way, I believe that people – you buy a Moomin mug, you like the characters, you maybe see something on TV, but then we all go back to the books, and the original illustrations.”
37. Close of Moomin mugs
38. Pan of Moomin museum gift shop
39. Close of Moomin earrings
40. Mid of Moomin merchandise
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Helsinki, Finland – 7 August 2025
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