musicradio77
11-27-2005, 11:04 PM
While I was letting go from GAC Forums in October, Bpatrick posted it on Radio-Info forums:
If a station in your area shows it (it's also on DVD), you might like to check out "A Classic Christmas," a collection of cartoons made by Fleischer/Famous Studios in the 1930s and '40s. The piece de resistance is the original animated "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which Max Fleischer made for a small Detroit company called Jam Happy in 1948. These cartoons were staples on television in the 1950s and '60s, but apparently are now in the public domain. The artwork is not the greatest on any of them, and today's kids may find them a bit too cute, but those of us old enough to have seen them in theaters or television years ago will come away feeling pretty good. The other cartoons are:
1. "Jack Frost" (1934) Ub Iwerks/Celebrity Productions
2. "Christmas Comes But Once A Year" (1936) Flesicher
3. "Hector's Hectic Life" (1948) Famous/Noveltoons
4. "Snow Foolin'" (1949) Famous/Screen Songs
If a station in your area shows it (it's also on DVD), you might like to check out "A Classic Christmas," a collection of cartoons made by Fleischer/Famous Studios in the 1930s and '40s. The piece de resistance is the original animated "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which Max Fleischer made for a small Detroit company called Jam Happy in 1948. These cartoons were staples on television in the 1950s and '60s, but apparently are now in the public domain. The artwork is not the greatest on any of them, and today's kids may find them a bit too cute, but those of us old enough to have seen them in theaters or television years ago will come away feeling pretty good. The other cartoons are:
1. "Jack Frost" (1934) Ub Iwerks/Celebrity Productions
2. "Christmas Comes But Once A Year" (1936) Flesicher
3. "Hector's Hectic Life" (1948) Famous/Noveltoons
4. "Snow Foolin'" (1949) Famous/Screen Songs