#arthur rankin jr.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[pierppasolini]

Jack Frost (1979) // dir. Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

[dijeh]

The Flight of Dragons (1982)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mad Monster Party (1967)

[cinematitlecards]

"Frosty The Snowman" (1969) Directed by Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. (Animated/Comedy/Fantasy/Christmas) . . "Frosty Returns" (1992) Directed by Evert Brown & Bill Melendez (Animated/Comedy/Fantasy/Christmas)

[tigermousse]

The Last Unicorn (1982) dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

[cigarette-smoke-noir]

Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)

Today on the list of things I have a vague recollection of, a lesser known Rankin Bass production. I can see why this didn't stick around as a family tradition in my house. Vincent Price delivers a great performance as Irontail and Casey Kasem is trying his best with what he's given as Peter, but ultimately this feels like a movie that hates its own holiday as Peter and friends zig-zag through other holidays.

Still nice sets, and I like Irontail's design in particular.

[thefugitivesaint]

I came across this cleaned up version of the classic 1977 Rankin-Bass animated ‘The Hobbit’ and thought I’d pass it along. I believe I originally saw this television special in 1978 (or somewhere after it’s original air date in 1977). The folk ballad, "The Greatest Adventure (The Ballad of the Hobbit)", sung by Glenn Yarbrough, rattled around in my head for years. Speaking of the passage of time, it wasn’t until relatively recently that I learned that the animation company that made this adaptation,  Topcraft, was a Japanese company that went bankrupt in 1985 and that many of the people that worked there went on to found Studio Ghibli under Hayao Miyazaki. 

[mythcreant]

The Rankin Bass animated horror spoof, Mad Monster Party? – which gathers together all of the classic horror monsters into one big love-fest, with Boris Karloff’s Doctor Frankenstein presiding – boogied down on July 26, 1967.

[thatdamnokie]

i’m not sure who needs to hear this, but the last unicorn is available to watch for free on yt! this is one of my favorite animated films. gorgeous to look at, definitely recommended if you’re into fantasy, and the voice talent ain’t half bad either.

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2022:

45. The Last Unicorn (1982) - Dir. Jules Bass/Arthur Rankin Jr. 

[dweemeister]

October 28, 2022

(The New York Times) — Jules Bass, who created an animation empire with his business partner, Arthur Rankin Jr., that produced perennial Christmastime television favorites like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman,” died on Tuesday in Rye, N.Y. He was 87.

The Rankin/Bass studio was a major force in animated programming, mostly on television, from the early 1960s to the late ’80s. Some of its TV shows and movies used traditional hand-drawn cel animation, but it carved out a separate specialty in the stop-motion puppet animation familiar to viewers since “Gumby” in the 1950s.

Rankin/Bass’s stop-motion specials included “Rudolph” (1964), featuring the voice of the folk singer Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman;“Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” (1970), with Fred Astaire as the narrator and Mickey Rooney as the voice of Kris Kringle; and “Jack Frost” (1979), with Robert Morse voicing the title role.

“Frosty” (1969), narrated by Jimmy Durante, used traditional animation.

To create the stop-motion effect, animators in Japan painstakingly shot thousands of pictures of the tiniest movements and gestures of inches-tall puppets. When run at 24 frames a second, the images generated a whimsical sort of herky-jerky animation that became the Rankin/Bass signature.

[pierppasolini]

Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977) // dir. Arthur Rankin, jr., Jules Bass

[cinesludge]

Movie #9 of 2023: The Hobbit

[kartaematita]

The Hobbit

[cinematitlecards]

"Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" (1970) Directed by Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. (Animated/Adventure/Fantasy/Christmas)