Santa, Baby! Here Comes Peter Cottontail [DVD] [1971] SKU: 3209024. In 1950, Gene Autry recorded the holiday song " Here Comes Peter Cottontail ", which became popular on the Country and Pop charts and informally gave the Easter Bunny a name. The legendary Danny Kaye as Seymour S. Sassafrass, sings and is his witty self. When 'Rudolph the Red-Noised Reindeer' airs, Saturday Night Live (SNL): “The Narrator That Ruined Christmas” on Vimeo, "South Park" A Very Crappy Christmas (TV Episode 2000) - Connections - IMDB, 18 Popular Cult Classic Movies That Are Perfect For Movie Night - CINEMABLEND, Rick Goldschmidt's "The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass", The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Later that year, Jack appeared in his own special, Jack Frost. For the studio's early work, this group was based in Toronto, where recording was supervised by veteran CBC announcer Bernard Cowan. It was followed in 1980 by an animated version of The Return of the King (the animation rights to the first two volumes were held by Saul Zaentz, producer of Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation The Lord of the Rings). [13] Santa, Baby! To make his case, the Great Ak tells Claus's life story, from his discovery as a foundling in the magical forest and his raising by Immortals, through his education by the Great Ak in the harsh realities of the human world, and his acceptance of his destiny to struggle to bring joy to children. When You Can't Get It All Together, Improvise is a musical number from the 1971 Rankin/Bass Easter special, Here Comes Peter Cottontail. It was followed by two similar TV shows about humanoid animals, SilverHawks in 1986, and TigerSharks, as part of the series The Comic Strip in 1987. It was the first Rankin/Bass "Animagic" production on which Akikazu Kono and puppet maker Ichiro Komuro share in the production supervision. The company was founded in New York City by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass on September 14, 1960, as Videocraft International. Lyrics Edit People believe what their hearts tell their eyes So when you can't get it all together, improvise When you can't get it all together, improvise You can't tell a rose isn't a rose The theatrical feature film Mad Monster Party? Throughout the 1970s, Rankin/Bass, with Video Tokyo and former Toei animator Toru Hara's Topcraft, continued to produce animated sequels to its classic specials, including the teaming of Rudolph and Frosty in 1979's Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, with the voice of Ethel Merman as Lilly Loraine, the ringmistress of a seaside circus, and Rooney again returning as Santa. Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2019. He was credited for his supervision as "Tad Mochinaga". It is also the last "Animagic" project that Tadahito Mochinaga supervised. Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2011. This was followed by another independently produced series using more traditional cel animation and based on already established characters, Tales of the Wizard of Oz in 1961. With the exception of King Kong Escapes, all were made-for-television films. Neither one enjoyed the same commercial success as ThunderCats did, however. One of Videocraft's first projects was an independently produced television series, The New Adventures of Pinocchio in 1960, based on Carlo Collodi's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio and featuring "Animagic", a stop motion animation process using figurines or puppets (a process already pioneered by George Pal's "Puppetoons" and Art Clokey's Gumby and Davey and Goliath), managed by Mochinaga and his MOM Production staffers for Videocraft with Dentsu. First of all, it's a Rankin/Bass animagic special, so I think I could just stop there, because that says it all! Rankin/Bass' stop-motion features are recognizable by their visual style of doll-like characters with spheroid body parts, and ubiquitous powdery snow using an animation technique called "Animagic". The original story and a follow-up cookbook became bestsellers for independent publishing house Barefoot Books. In 1977, Fred Astaire returned as S.D. This is also a must for Rankin-Bass collectors, such as myself. [7] Rankin/Bass enlisted Fred Astaire as narrator S.D. In the Puzzle of Life is a musical number from the 1971 Rankin/Bass Easter special, Here Comes Peter Cottontail. User rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars with 53 reviews. Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Easter stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, currently distributed by Universal Television and based on the 1957 novel The Easter Bunny That Overslept by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich. Distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, the film flopped at the American box office and many American film critics took it to task for its depictions of "offensive ethnic stereotyping.". I loved this movie when I was a little kid. Did anyone else get the movie in the box instead of the promised TV original? Rankin/Bass also attempted live-action productions, such as 1967's King Kong Escapes, a co-production with Toho; 1976's The Last Dinosaur; 1978's The Bermuda Depths; 1980's The Ivory Ape; and 1983's The Sins of Dorian Gray. No late fees. In 1948, it had been made into a cartoon by Max Fleischer, brother and former partner of Dave Fleischer, as a traditional animated short for the Jam Handy Film Company almost two decades earlier. One of the mainstays of the business was holiday-themed animated specials for airing on American television. Vincent Price is a delite as Evil Irontail. 1965 saw the production of Rankin/Bass's first theatrical film, Willy McBean and His Magic Machine, the first of four films produced in association with Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures and a second joint venture between Videocraft and Dentsu. I grew up with this movie on VHS, and was a little worried that some of the detail would be lost in translation to DVD format, but its actually better on DVD. In 1974, Rankin/Bass Productions was relaunched once again as an independent production company and produced another Christmas special for television, The Year Without a Santa Claus, featuring Shirley Booth, voicing narrator Mrs. Claus, Mickey Rooney, returning as the voice of Santa Claus, and supporting characters Snow Miser (voiced by Dick Shawn) and Heat Miser (voiced by George S. Irving). This page works best with JavaScript. This is a good film if you have very small ones. In 2019, for its 55th anniversary, the special was also aired on Freeform as part of its “25 Days of Christmas” franchise, although it will continue to air on CBS under a separate license with Universal. Kringle later marries the town's schoolteacher, Miss Jessica, voiced by Robie Lester. Throughout the 1960s, Videocraft produced other stop motion and traditional animation specials and films, some of which were non-holiday stories. In this story, the Great Ak summons a council of the Immortals to bestow upon a dying Claus the Mantle of Immortality. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Previously, he was met by Rankin during the animation production of the Halloween television special Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters at Mushi Production in 1972, and became an integral part of Rankin/Bass for many years. In 1971, Rankin/Bass produced their first Easter television special, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, with the voices of Danny Kaye as the narrator Seymour S. Sassafrass, Vincent Price as the evil rabbit January Q. Irontail, and Casey Kasem from the Scooby-Doo franchise as the title character Peter Cottontail. Other books adapted include The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, a rare theatrical release that was co-produced with ITC Entertainment in London, England, Peter Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows which was animated by Cuckoo's Nest Studios (now Wang Film Productions) in Taipei, Taiwan.

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