A great Disney Silly Symphony starring The Big Bad Wolf with Little Red Riding hood, the Three Little Pigs, and Grandma. (more…)
We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets. (more…)
The cartoon begins with Donald and his nephews hiking in the great outdoors in Yellowstone National Park. (more…)
This is a full-length (1 hour, 48 minutes long) video of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conducted by the legendary conductor Evgeny Svetlanov, choreographed by Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov and released by the BBC (2001).
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour. (more…)
A Holly Jolly Christmas and Silver and Gold are now considered Christmas standards some 45 years after they were first featured in the 1964 CBS-TV presentation of the Rankin & Bass stop-motion animated family special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents worry about him getting teased, and indeed he does in the end. When he is beaten in the reindeer games by his rival for a doe he fancies, Rudolph runs away and moves into a cave with Slyly the Fox. However can he overcome his fear and reach his true potential.
A Holly Jolly Christmas” and “Silver and Gold” are now considered Christmas standards some 45 years after they were first featured in the 1964 CBS-TV presentation of the Rankin & Bass stop-motion animated family special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Johnny Marks had composed the title song (originally an enormous hit for singing cowboy Gene Autry) in 1949, and producers Rankin & Bass retained him to compose the TV special’s soundtrack. Ives voiced Sam the Snowman, the banjo-playing “host” and narrator of the story, explaining how Rudolph used his “nonconformity,” as Sam refers to it, to save Christmas from being cancelled due to an impassable blizzard. The following year, Ives re-recorded all three of these Johnny Marks hits, which Ives had sung in the TV special, but with a more “pop” feel than in the TV special. He released them all as singles for the 1965 holiday season, capitalizing on their previous successes.
Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year
I don’t know if there’ll be snow
But have a cup of cheer
Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
and everyone you meet
Oh, the mistletoe hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me
Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn’t here,
Oh, by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!
Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year
Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street,
Say hello to friends you know
and everyone you meet.
Oh, the mistletoe hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me!
Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn’t here,
Oh, by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!
A beautiful version of White Christmas from Bing Crosby. Black and white from the movie Holiday Inn.
Lyrics:
Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la. (more…)
Susan Boyle sings O Holy Night on the Larry Kind show. It is quietly spectacular!
Where are you Christmas
Why can’t I find you
Why have you gone away
Where is the laughter
You used to bring me
Why can’t I hear music play (more…)
While Christmas shopping, Mr Bean purchases a bulky string of tree lights before making a shambles of a department store toy section.
He later manages to acquire a free turkey and Christmas tree, and attempts to conduct a Salvation Army band.
Finally, during Christmas dinner, Bean has quite a surprise in store for his long-suffering girlfriend.
Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop.
This is the first appearance by Little Audrey. She would make a cameo in a Popeye cartoon “Olive Oyl For President” early in 1948, before inaugurating a new series of her own in June 1948.
