If Christmas specials were your cup of tea, nobody did it better than Rankin/Bass, at least in the '60s, '70s and '80s. Their stop-motion and 2-D animated films are legendary, making the TV rounds ...
We rarely see “Peace On Earth” alongside more traditionally revered holiday standards like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”—but we really should. Arthur Rankin, Jr., one ...
More than five decades ago, Arthur Rankin Jr., a producer-director working in stop-motion animation, had an idea to develop a family-oriented TV special around a popular Christmas song. He hoped a ...