Rankin-Bass 'Animagic' - Part 2

Geez ... it looks like Rankin-Bass was a high production animation factory farm 😮.  Here are four more stop motion animagics that I was not aware of. They sure have squeezed every drop out of 'Christmas'🎄 If you are masochistic enough 😉 to endure this onslaught of Rankin/Bass, you can do a 'Study' of the animation and puppet build quality throughout the years. Example: The earlier animation might be slightly jerky & stiff compared to the newer animations where the puppet movements might be a little more smoother and the puppet fabrication may have a more finessed quality.

'The First Christmas' - 1975, length 23:43 

'Nestor - The Long Eared Donkey' - 1977, length 24:32 

'Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July' - 1979, feature length, 1 hour 37 min 

'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' - 1985, 48:39

 

I do not have time to embed additional videos in this post but will provide links below where you can watch them ....

Click >> 'Willy McBean and his Magic Machine'- 1965 Full feature about 90 minutes 

Click >> 'The Daydreamer' - 1966 - Full feature about 90 minutes, Stop Motion & Live Action mix

Click >> 'The Ballad of Smokey the Bear' - 1966 - 51:39

Click >> 'Mad Monster Party' - 1967 - Full feature length about 90 minutes

Click >> 'Here comes Peter Cottontail' - 1971 50:48

Click >>  'The Emperors New Clothes' - 1972 - 50:58, Stop motion & Live Action mix 

Click >> 'Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town' - 1977 - 50:06

Rankin/Bass also produced many 2D cartoon works for series and other projects. OUCH ... this is too much. Going to take a long break from Rankin-Bass! For just about everything that they produced, here is a Wiki page. They got most of it but maybe only missed a few >> List of Rankin/Bass Productions films

Here is Part 1 >> Rankin-Bass 'Animagic' Marathon

 

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Rankin-Bass 'Animagic' Marathon

Here are videos of the Rankin/Bass production company's cornucopia of wholesome family viewing stop motion animated specials from the vintage days going back to the mid 1960s. Since Christmas is coming up, these are focused on that holiday. Reviewing this, I am reminded about the high content production output of Rankin/Bass. Each of the specials were about 30 to 50 minutes in length and one was a full feature length at one and a half hours!

You should know that all the stop motion was outsourced to a Japan studio/artists and that Rankin/Bass somewhat trademarked or described their stop motion style as 'Animagic'. As stated, this is only the Christmas theme content. Rankin/Bass also produced other stop motion covering other themes or holidays and they also have done 2d cell (cartoon) animation.

Submitted for your review. You have the option to watch some of these, or not. You can also watch one or two each night, you know like The12 days of Christmas thing!. If you do, you might overdose & saturate yourself and possibly, never want to see another Rankin/Bass holiday special. LOL! 😁

NOTE - There are numerous videos here. If they do not all appear, just refresh, reload your browser a few times.

'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' - 1964, length 51:43

'The Little Drummer Boy' - 1968, length 25:36

'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' - 1970, length 50:42

'The Year Without Santa Claus' - 1974, length 50:07

 

'Rudolph's Shiny New Year' - 1976, length 50:07

 

'The Little Drummer Boy, Book II' - 1976, length 23:37 

 

 

 

'Jack Frost' -1979, length 48:21

 
'Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas' - 1979, feature length 1hour 37min

'Pinocchio's Christmas' - 1980, length 48:57

'The Leprechauns Christmas Gold' - 1981, length 24:47

 

 

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BONUS

This one below, might be an interesting one.. I think this one made around 2018. It is a ten minute Rudolph re-creation homage, duplicating the original Animagic look & style. It was not done by Rankin-Bass. This was on a DVD as a special featurette..I have no idea why '4D' is in the title ... it is your classic stop motion

'Re-imagining Rudolph in 4D' - 2018, length 9:17

 

You want more? The video below is the behind the scenes of Re-imagining Rudolph. Bent Image Labs Studio in Portand, Oregon, USA, produced this. I also recognize a veteran animator >>> Jerold Howard

'Re-imagining Rudolph, Behind the Scenes' - 2018, length 10:40

 

 

A FEW MORE!

This was around 2016. A collector at an auction acquired two original stop motion puppets Santa & Rudolph. They were not in good condition, so they found a stop motion studio to restore the puppets - length 3:40.

 

A retrospective & guest commentaries by Henry Selick, Chiodo Brothers, and others

'The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass' - 2018, length 47 min

 

 

 

Okay, this post kind of BURNED me out! 😦 Do you know how much time it takes to search these videos, then tediously inserting each video here!?  You might bookmark and save this one for future, if you ever want to revisit or show any of these videos to your kids or family!!

 

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