Rudolph Stop Motion Movie

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.

Rudolph stop motion movie. Over the next 18 months ge poured the equivalent of more than 4 5 million into the special s innovative stop motion. And while montgomery ward shuttered in 2001 rudolph the red nosed reindeer remains one of the most. In the 1964 stop motion movie rudolph is born to donner the reindeer and donner s wife. It was not created with computer animation but with stop motion animation using detailed figures.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is a 1964 christmas stop motion animated television special produced by videocraft international ltd. For a while he hides this quality that makes him different but when his nose is discovered and he is ostracized rudolph runs away with hermey an elf who also considers himself a misfit. Claireese the doe sings there s always tomorrow to rudolph after the other reindeers make fun of his red nose in this stop motion animated classic rankin. Rudolph and frosty are pitted against winterbolt an icy wizard who plots to make the north pole his evil domain and enlist the help of jack frost and others to fight the winterbolt.

Later known as rankin bass productions and currently distributed by universal television. Just like the charlie brown christmas special and the grinch who stole christmas special using seuss drawing style. Jules bass arthur rankin jr. Rankin bass as videocraft international contracted with tokyo s pioneering tad mochinaga for the stop motion animagic animation.

He is discovered by santa to have a shiny glowing red nose. By mid 1963 rudolph the red nosed reindeer was officially in production. Scripts pre recorded voices and sounds made. Original rudolph stop motion puppets can be yours for 10m the original screen used puppets of rudolph and santa from the 1964 rudolph the red nosed reindeer are now on ebay.