"[citation needed]. It was remade as a poorly received live action TV movie shown on NBC in 2006 starring Delta Burke and John Goodman as Mrs. Claus and Santa. ViacomCBS Networks International: Nickelodeon (40%) (Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. Too | Nicktoons) | Comedy Central (25%) (Extra) It was a stop motion animated adaptation of Robert L. May's 1939 story "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the 1949 song it inspired, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," written by May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks. On April 28, 2016, it was announced that the library would be acquired by NBCUniversal for $3.8 billion. One of Videocraft's first projects was an independently produced series based on the character Pinocchio. Computer-animated films: Romeo Muller was another consistent contributor, serving as screenwriter for many of Rankin/Bass's best-known productions including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, and Frosty the Snowman. In 1996, Golden Books Family Entertainment acquired Broadway Video's family entertainment library and was later folded into Classic Media in 2001. TV8 | Cielo | Sky TG24, General channels Production studios: Cartoon Network Studios | Cartoon Network Studios Europe | Cartoon Network Latin America Original Productions | Williams Street Productions | Williams Street West | Warner Bros. "The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Last Dinosaur (1977) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Return to Oz (1964) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Mouse on the Mayflower (1968) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Little Drummer Boy (1968) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Frosty the Snowman (1969) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1970) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Emperor's New Clothes (1972) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Arabian Knights (1973) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Year without a Santa Claus (1974) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The First Christmas (1975) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Little Drummer Boy: Book 2 (1976) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Town (1977) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Hobbit (1978) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1979) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Jack Frost (1979) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Return of the King (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Ivory Ape (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Pinocchio's Christmas (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (1981) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Sins of Dorian Gray (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Last Unicorn (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Flight of Dragons (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The First Easter Rabbit (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "Beauty and the Beast (1983) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", "The Wind in the Willows (1987) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast", The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes, The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Rankin/Bass_Productions_films&oldid=963400582, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 June 2020, at 16:33.

U.S. television networks: The CW1, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group:Warner Bros. Home Entertainment | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | Warner Bros. Games | WB Games Boston | WB Games Montréal | Monolith Productions | Cartoon Network Games | Adult Swim Games | Traveller's Tales | Rocksteady Studios | Turbine | NetherRealm Studios | Avalanche Software | Portkey Games, Warner Bros. Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd. and later known as Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation. 9Joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment. General Electric's Tomorrow Entertainment acquired the original Videocraft International in 1971. Universal Television (Others) | Universal Television Alternative Studios | NBCUniversal Television Distribution | Universal Content Productions | Universal Kids Original | NBCUniversal International Studios | LXTV | DreamWorks Animation Television (Others) | Working Title Television | Bravo Originals | Syfy Originals | DreamWorks Classics | Big Idea (On-screen variants) | Harvey Entertainment | Harvey Comics | Jay Ward Productions (Bullwinkle Studios) (75%), U.S. broadcast networks: 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. Notes: Many of these specials are still shown seasonally on American television, and some have been released to video and DVD. Nearly all of the studio's animation was outsourced to at least 4 Japanese animation companies: Topcraft, Mushi Production, Toei Doga and TCJ (Television Corporation of Japan). General Electric's Tomorrow Entertainment acquired the original Videocraft International in 1971. The following year (1969), Jimmy Durante sang and told the story of Frosty the Snowman, with Jackie Vernon voicing the title character of a snowman magically brought to life. Free-to-air channel Bleacher Report | Turner Sports | Esporte Interativo (EI Plus), Former/defunct: In this story, the Great Ak summons a council of the Immortals to bestow upon a dying Claus the Mantle of Immortality.

Edit. Now owned by ViacomCBS. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Jackson 5ive is now owned by CBS Television Distribution due to being the successor to Worldvision Enterprises. This company released its Halloween classic Witch's Night Out on NBC in 1978. In addition to their prime time specials, Rankin/Bass produced several regular television shows in traditional animation, including The King Kong Show in 1966, co-produced with Toei Animation, The Jackson 5ive in 1971, co-produced with Motown Productions, and The Osmonds in 1972. [17], former production company known mainly for animated holiday specials, Overseas animation studios used by Rankin/Bass, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special), The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes, "The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation", "FREEFORM to show Rudolph and Frosty this Holiday Season", Lost & Found Film Club: NUTCRACKER FANTASY on Vimeo, Saniro's Stop-Motion Nutcracker Fantasy to be Screened in LA|Anime News Network, The Rankin/Bass "Frosty" Specials on Records|Cartoon Research, Rankin/Bass "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" on Records|Cartoon Research, CBS holiday special lineup is here! Kids, Young Adults and Classics, Cartoon Network Latin America Original Productions, Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Rankin/Bass_Animated_Entertainment?oldid=1997239. 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. 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. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | UHD | Austria | Bundesliga | Bundesliga UHD, Former channels CartoonNetwork.com | Cartoon Network Books | Fandango (30%)4 (Flixster | Rotten Tomatoes | Vudu) | Momlogic | Movies Anywhere | TCM Classic Film Festival | Turner Entertainment | Pogo | Tooncast | WaterTower Music | Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, WarnerMedia Entertainment Maury Laws served as musical director for almost all of the animated films and television programs. Neither one enjoyed the same commercial success as ThunderCats did, however. Bay Area | Boston | California | Chicago | Northwest | Philadelphia | Washington | SportsNet New York, Parks: 1Co-owned by ViacomCBS. 16Previously owned by Walmart. Jules Bass commuted between New York and Paris.[when?] (Canada | Latin America) | Telemundo Internacional | Golf Channel (Latin America8 | Indonesia14 ) | CNBC (Africa | Arabia | Asia | Australia | Europe | India 13 (CNBC-TV18 (HD), CNBC Awaaz and CNBC Bajar) | Indonesia14 | Latin America | Pakistan) | Movies 24 | Movies 24+, NBC Sports Regional Networks: Bass became a vegetarian; a decade later, he wrote Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon, the first children's book character developed specifically to explore moral issues related to vegetarianism. 6Owns 40% with 60% being owned by the Seattle Mariners. It was done using "Animagic", a stop motion animation process using figurines (a process already pioneered by George Pal's "Puppetoons" and Art Clokey's Gumby and Davey and Goliath). Kringle later marries the town's schoolteacher, Miss Jessica, voiced by Robie Lester. 10Joint venture with FTV Prima. For example, 1965 produced 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.

In 1977 Fred Astaire returned as mailman narrator Kruger in "The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town" and tells the tale of the Easter Bunny's origins. Other books adapted include The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle and Peter Dickinson's "The Flight of Dragons". With narrator Burl Ives in the role of Sam the Snowman, along with an original orchestral score composed by Marks himself, Rudolph became one of the most popular and longest-running Christmas specials in television history: it remained with NBC until around 1972, and currently runs annually on CBS. 12AT&T's stake in GSN was acquired by Sony Pictures Television in 2019. In 1965, a new song was filmed to replace "We're A Couple Of Misfits" titled "Fame and Fortune.". And from the 1970s to the early 1980s, the others were animated by another of Tokyo's animation studios, Topcraft, which was formed in 1971 (or 1972 in some cases) as an offshoot of Toei Animation. 8Joint venture with Ion Media Networks, DreamWorks Classics, Corus Entertainment and Scholastic. 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. Rankin/Bass stop-motion features are recognizable by their visual style of doll-like characters with spheroid body parts, and ubiquitous powdery snow. He was credited for his supervision as "Tad Mochinaga".

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