Rankin Bass

Guides And Explainers

The 1974 holiday special The Year Without a Santa Claus was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, the New York–based studio famous for its "Animagic" stop-motion technique. Thi...

animation techniques

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a stop-motion claymation television special first broadcast in 1964, produced by Videocraft International (later Rankin/Bass) using a distincti...

holiday media

The Christmas movie that features both the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser is the 1974 animated television special "The Year Without a Santa Claus." These sibling pixies personify...

holiday media

The 1974 Christmas special "The Year Without a Santa Claus" is one of the most enduring holiday stories in American television. Based on the 1956 book of the same name by Phylli...

holidays

The 1974 illustrated book The Year Without a Santa Claus, written by Phyllis McGinley and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger, presents a holiday parable in which Santa Claus, fr...