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{{quote|''Just in the Christmas special subgenre alone, Rankin/Bass made 18 specials, of varying length and ambition, between 1964 and 1985. Nearly all of these films revolve around the performance of some Christmas song or another. Nearly all of them deal with the crippling scars of childhood shame.'' |
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''And nearly all of them are completely off-the-rails insane.'' |
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|Emily Todd VanDerWerff|vox.com, [https://www.vox.com/2014/12/24/7446181/worst-christmas-specials https://www.vox.com/2014/12/24/7446181/worst-christmas-specials]}} |
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If you had a childhood (in an English-speaking country, at least), you know '''Rankin/Bass Productions'''. Founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass as Videocraft International, the company is responsible for a series of (usually) [[Stop Motion]] puppet animated (called "Animagic") holiday specials that are virtual fixtures of seasonal television programming. Works such as ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'', ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'', ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' and ''[[Here Comes Peter Cottontail]]'' have been airing almost continuously since the early 1960s, when they were first produced. Many subsequent holiday specials produced by other companies will contain salutes to these shows. |
If you had a childhood (in an English-speaking country, at least), you know '''Rankin/Bass Productions'''. Founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass as Videocraft International, the company is responsible for a series of (usually) [[Stop Motion]] puppet animated (called "Animagic") holiday specials that are virtual fixtures of seasonal television programming. Works such as ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'', ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'', ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' and ''[[Here Comes Peter Cottontail]]'' have been airing almost continuously since the early 1960s, when they were first produced. Many subsequent holiday specials produced by other companies will contain salutes to these shows. |
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