I just watched it and it was rather ordinary as a cartoon. Nothing really memorable about it. Kinda disappointing since I thought I'd enjoy it like I did as a kid years ago.
shareI would have liked it ether way but stop motion does have a special charm.
shareYou seem overly-critical and negative to me. Lighten up and enjoy it!
I'm in my 50's and I love all the old classics: Rudolph, Charlie Brown and Frosty.
What about Mr Magoo??
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Love Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol - actually very faithful to the novella with the exception of those great songs!
I’ve loved it all these years and now my kids are in college and they still ask to watch it at Christmas time.
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When I was a kid in the 60s, they ran it Thanksgiving night as a kick-off to the Christmas season.
I bet that was great! I was born in the 70s and it was still being played a lot when I was a kid. The animation reminded me a lot of Rocky and Bulwinkle. :)
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Great memories - Thanksgiving day which meant no school, waking up to the smell of turkey in the downstairs oven, great food up the ying-yang, turkey sandwich for dinner, pies up the other ying yang (I had two ying yangs), then Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. Good times.
I can smell the razzleberry gravy already!
shareI don't mind stop motion animation but like the animation style like this which you don't see as often anymore.
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..the animation style like this which you don't see as often anymore.
Been a while but if I remember correctly, they didn't have the money to do this in stop motion.
shareHow would they have shown melting snow with stop motion animation?
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CGI...
Actually, they would accomplish that with camera tricks. In one of the other Rankin Bass Christmas specials that's also stop action, there's a winter warlock character whose cold heart melts when Santa gives him a "choo choo" - the melting shown on screen with some kind of lens trick - maybe filming through wavy glass for instance.