RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Humans can't achieve true immortality, but they can come close by being remembered for all the good they've done.
William Craig Baum vibe, if you please! L. Frank Baum, author of the first fourteen Oz books, also wrote the book on which this special was based. And Rankin-Bass's first T.V. special was the cell-animated "Return to Oz," based on their cartoon series "Tales of the Wizard of Oz."
@@MaskedMan66 True, though Rankin Bass also made their Hobbit and Return of the King films not too long before this one, so they may have also drawn on the high fantasy experience those films gave them as well as their experience with Baum's work.
+Christopher Spaulding If you watch all their specials, they had their own distinctive style which complimented whatever they were doing. It wasn't what they drew from for their ideas, it's what they put into other people's ideas. :-) Besides, I frankly doubt Tolkien would have cared for what they did with his work, not because he'd have disliked their style or anything, but simply because he didn't like adaptations of his work as a rule.
@@xalm8761 Tolkien wouldn't have cared for that one, I imagine; he liked magic in stories, and the dreary notion of science defeating magic was a bit of a deal-breaker to a lot of people.
It's a shame the song itself, or the entire soundtrack, isn't available on CD or even digitally, because this song is great! I'd love to listen to it without the dialogue.
I'd argue it surpasses Santa Claus is Coming to Town. No contest. And this is from someone who only watched this version last year for the first time XD
In case anyone wants them, the lyrics are as follows: Ora e sempre Today and forever For ages and ages to come 'Til the last trumpet sounds Immortality Born in our present state Never were babies we Live where no mortal has lived With a nobility Yet none humanity We have no children or kin Ora e sempre Today and forever For ages and ages to come To the first cracking of Doom Immortality Immortality
It still blows my mind how...how much time they have to put into this just to make this, and how epic each one of the Rankin/Bass specials are. You can't compete against this!
Me too! This is my favorite of all the Rankin/Bass specials. Probably because I actually watched it when it was aired, and it was the last one. I'm sentimental like that. Plus, I love this intro. ❤️🎄🎅
RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924-2014) and Jules Bass (1935-2022). Thank you for the classic holiday specials we continue to hold dear to our hearts even today. May your legacy live on through them. For ages and ages to come, til the last trumpet sounds.
1:05 Rankin-Bass always added nice little personable touches to their puppets' actions; in this case, notice Tingler and his king acknowledging one another.
@103211282925078072338 Yes and no. Like the myths, there are spirits of nature, but every one of the creatures in the story was invented by L. Frank Baum.
Magic, excitement, wonder, action, fantasy, thrills, adventures, and music. At the beginning of the film, Great Ak summons the immortals to call council to convince them by giving Santa Claus the gift of immortality, so he can continue to bring joy and hope to the world. And I like the song performed by immortal beings, Immortality. It sounds strong and mighty, if I do say so myself. Santa Claus (Kris Kringle, Father Christmas and St. Nicholas). Legendary heroes like Santa and Peter Pan deserve immortality, to live forever and ever without aging and growing old. Perfect for me. I love magic and fairy tales, always have and always will. I never gave up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to grow up, and forget about the precious things I knew, especially those from my childhood. I am like Peter Pan. Believe in magic and never grow up. My one and only wish is to keep the magic alive for all time. I also wish to be a fairy to stay strong, childlike, young, and beautiful forever and ever like the fairies in the forest of Burzee (The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus), Fantasian fair folks (Fantasia/Fantasia 2000), the blue fairy (Pinocchio), the fairy godmother (Cinderella), Tinker Bell (Peter Pan/Tinker Bell), and the celebrated fairy godmothers (Sleeping Beauty). Never grow up, yuck! Merry Christmas, everyone of Burzee, and a happy new year!
This was always my mom's favorite Christmas Special, and honestly, I didn't have as much appreciation for it as a kid. Everything about it is so "Grand" and "Epic", like if The Lord of the Rings (or at least The Hobbit) was about Santa Claus. It's also much more serious in tone compared to Rankin-Bass's other stop-motion productions. It's incredible, and it's nice to know they at least went out with a bang, since this is their last stop-motion special.
People keep bringing up Tolkien's work, but this is based on a book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of Oz and its environs. Rankin-Bass already had its own versions of _The Hobbit_ and _The Return of the King._
@@MaskedMan66 Didn't Baum write the story as a Oz spinoff? I read somewhere before that the Forest of Burzee was actually part of Oz, occupying parts of Oz's western regions. And I think I remember one of the later books in the series had one or two of the fairy folk being present at some court meeting. I think it was one of the books where the Nome King was involved.
@@xalm8761 Burzee isn't in Oz, nor on the Continent of Imagination, as are Oz, Ev, Ix, Merryland, and many other fairylands. It's on our side of the magical barriers, but the Forest is inhabited by fairy folk, including Queen Zurline, whose name is similar to that of Queen Lurline, the mother of Ozma and the creator of Oz. I would imagine that they are of the same train. And to be sure, all of Baum's fairy stories are connected-- a "shared universe," as the concept's now known-- as evidenced by Santa Claus and many of his attendant creatures being present at Ozma's birthday party in "The Road to Oz." Santa was the guest of honor and sat at the other end of the long dinner table from Ozma herself. I'd have to look over the books to see about that court meeting you mentioned; it does sound familiar. :-)
This immortality song just moves me deep. I love epic chanty songs like this. It makes me think of epic heroes and legends and stuff. Love that sort of thing. Is there a way to get this song without the voiceovers? Just the song itself? I'd love to have this in my library.
I know this is an old comment, but since you love that kind of song, You should look up 'The Bard's Song' done by a group named Van Canto. They do acapella rock. 'Last Night of the Kings' and 'Rebellion' are good, too. Merry Christmas :)
This song is the thing about this movie that hooked itself into my brain, and refused to let the idea of the film be lost to the fog of my childhood. It persisted, and I remember it to this day, 35 years after the last time I actually saw it at 7. "IIIIMORTAAAAALITYYYYYY!" I even remember asking my father what the word meant, and after that I always remembered the definition. Big word for a 7-year-old, but I loved it and was in awe at the concept.
I remember being obsessed with this version of the story of Santa Claus as a child Moreso than the more mainstream specials that ran at Christmas and in particular loving this sequence and the immortals. I wanted to know all of their backstories and spent hours trying to satisfy myself by inventing my own backstories for them, which never were satisfying enough.
My all time favorite from my child hood, they really need to release this one on DVD so I can add it to my collection. Thanks a million for posting this.
It's available! Just bought it for my dad on Amazon. It's a double feature with Nestor the long-eared donkey. www.amazon.com/Adventures-Nestor-Christmas-Donkey-Feature/dp/B002VA5A0M/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1418056229&sr=1-1&keywords=life+and+adventures+of+santa+claus
What a crazy little Christmas movie. Tolkien meets Santa Claus. It makes me wonder what a Rankin Bass stop-motion adaptation of Tolkien would have been like.
@@MaskedMan66 That's right! Those definitely have a charm to them. This "council of Elrond" type scene and the battle that happens later on definitely make me visualize some pretty epic 80's Rankin Bass Tolkien animated that will never exist.
It's too bad that the traditionally animated adaptation of Frank L. Baum's novel isn't as good. Even these character designs look more interesting, particularly Ak, who should have been voiced by Christopher Lee in one of the adaptations.
this is one of those specials you really dont see on TV for some reaosn these days, during the holiday season that is..i think the last time i even saw this, let alone ' remember ' watching it, was at least 11-12 plus years ago-
@@jamescampbell6724 that may of been where i watched it, not sure, i remember seeing it way back in the early to mid 2000's for sure, they really should air this more
L. Frank Baum's lore was as vast and varied as space itself. Imagine if they pulled out all the cinematic stops and adapted this tale into a high fantasy epic!
My favorite of all the Rankin/Bass movies since my childhood. I wonder why they stopped showing it during the holidays while they continue to show the rest?
+Myrdin Emrys No, it wasn't. It just got very poor ratings. And stop-motion animated specials were, unfortunately, falling out of vogue by the early 80's.
@@myrdinemrys7765 my BFF said his very Christian parents wouldn't let him watch it because it was 'way too pagan'. Which is funny, because so is Christmas...
This movie is 80s fantasy at its finest. It really is a shame that it's always been overshadowed by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without a Santa Claus.
@@MaskedMan66 Actually, in terms of overshadowing, the original book tends to be overshadowed by Baum's more famous Oz books. Baum wasn't just the "Oz guy," yet that seems to be how a lot of people remember him.
@@dylans.1741 Indeed; he wrote plays, screenplays, songs, articles, essays, and scores of books, many under pseudonyms (including female ones). But even during his lifetime, though he wrote other fantasy novels, it was Oz that the readers, especially the children, wanted.
@@dylans.1741 And to be sure, Baum's version of Santa Claus turned up in Oz in the book "The Road to Oz," where he was an honored guest at Princess Ozma's birthday party.
@@MaskedMan66 From what I can tell, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is set in the same universe as the Oz series. Baum was honestly way ahead of his time, having a shared universe like that long before the MCU popularized the idea
@@myrdinemrys7765 in the book "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" (yes there is a book) he is called the King of the Light Elves, and Flash and Twilight are his daughters.
+gin ichigama "After the Fairy Queen, whose home you know was in old Burzee, came the King of the Light Elves, with his two Princes, Flash and Twilight, at his back. He never went anywhere without his Princes, for they were so mischievous that he dared not let them wander alone." They are boys, not girls.
I love this movie. This movie has SOME WEIRD characters looks. Classic Rankin bass. They’re Animations have The weirdest and signature Character designs. But, This movie is awesome, all of there Christmas Animations Are legendary.
The Princes Flash and Twilight-- or in other words, Prince Flash and Prince Twilight. They are nominally his sons, but of course the Immortals "have no children or kin."
Quite right; Jaga/Mumm-Ra as Claus, Panthro as Awgwa, Lion-O as the Commander of the Wind Demons, Cheetara/WilyKit as Queen Zurline, Snarf as Tingler, and Tygra/WilyKat as Peter Knook.
@@colleen4ever Well, as a matter of fact, they had already done the first season of _Thundercats_ by this time, and still had three seasons ahead of them 🙂
The opening alone probably makes this my favorite Rankin and Bass holiday special. I'm 32 and I still think that song is so cool.
You'll think the same when you're 55; I speak from personal experience! ;-)
1:36
It is definitely one of my faves for sure! I bought the DVD Cause no streamers were playing it!
This song goes harder than it has any right to.
Yeah, that's a heck of a way to open your Christmas special: saying that Santa Claus is about to die.
RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Humans can't achieve true immortality, but they can come close by being remembered for all the good they've done.
Just like the real Nicolas Claus.
@@colleen4ever You mean St. Nicholas of Myra?
My childhood right here. This is the Santa story I grew up with. :-)
RIP, Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. Your works will live forever in Immortality. 😢
What's Arthur Rankin, Jr., chopped liver?
@MaskedMan66 Jules Bass had just died when I wrote that.
It looks like Rankin and Bass have combined their Holiday special vibe with their Tolkien vibe.
William Craig Baum vibe, if you please! L. Frank Baum, author of the first fourteen Oz books, also wrote the book on which this special was based.
And Rankin-Bass's first T.V. special was the cell-animated "Return to Oz," based on their cartoon series "Tales of the Wizard of Oz."
@@MaskedMan66 True, though Rankin Bass also made their Hobbit and Return of the King films not too long before this one, so they may have also drawn on the high fantasy experience those films gave them as well as their experience with Baum's work.
+Christopher Spaulding If you watch all their specials, they had their own distinctive style which complimented whatever they were doing. It wasn't what they drew from for their ideas, it's what they put into other people's ideas. :-)
Besides, I frankly doubt Tolkien would have cared for what they did with his work, not because he'd have disliked their style or anything, but simply because he didn't like adaptations of his work as a rule.
@Christopher Spaulding. Also their Flight of Dragons cartoon had a heavy Tolkien feel to it as well.
@@xalm8761 Tolkien wouldn't have cared for that one, I imagine; he liked magic in stories, and the dreary notion of science defeating magic was a bit of a deal-breaker to a lot of people.
2025 is approaching and I still watch this yearly.
It's a shame the song itself, or the entire soundtrack, isn't available on CD or even digitally, because this song is great! I'd love to listen to it without the dialogue.
I wish this special was recognized as much as Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I read this book every year around Christmas.
Agreed. It's such a great Rankin Bass work that's never given its due recognition. It's a shame it was their last animagic special.
I'd argue it surpasses Santa Claus is Coming to Town. No contest. And this is from someone who only watched this version last year for the first time XD
@@HORSESNDOGS9 Claus.
@@MaskedMan66 👍 thanks
@@HORSESNDOGS9 You're welcome! Thank you for being a grownup! :)
In case anyone wants them, the lyrics are as follows:
Ora e sempre
Today and forever
For ages and ages to come
'Til the last trumpet sounds
Immortality
Born in our present state
Never were babies we
Live where no mortal has lived
With a nobility
Yet none humanity
We have no children or kin
Ora e sempre
Today and forever
For ages and ages to come
To the first cracking of Doom
Immortality
Immortality
I'd heard it was "Of none humanity."
Thanks, bud.
Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Thanks! This song was always stuck in my head over the years and remembered it from my childhood. So glad I have closure now that I am 36!
I remembered this from when I was a kid.. .and never forgot it. Now that composer has some talent!!
Great talñent, but try to find the soundtack, it's impossible.
The queen of the water spirits is so beautiful
She's sporting straight Bob Mackie, right there! (I'm assuming he is immortal, cause those designs certainly are...)
@@goldilox369 The costumes were by the Japanese Animagic staff.
@@MaskedMan66 well, I know. But they look like some of the Bob Mackie Barbie, etc. designs I've seen of his.
@@goldilox369 Maybe Mackie wished he had created it? ;-)
It still blows my mind how...how much time they have to put into this just to make this, and how epic each one of the Rankin/Bass specials are. You can't compete against this!
The Leader of the Wind Demons was my favorite, even though he was, at first, against giving Santa immortality.
In the book, however, he is all for it, once the Immortals have gotten over the shock of Ak's request.
In the book the Master Mariner, Bo, has more of the Devil’s Advocate role but he and the Husbandman got left out of the movie.
@BlueBraviary They are there, as two masked figures at the table, but they are never identified by name.
Me too! This is my favorite of all the Rankin/Bass specials. Probably because I actually watched it when it was aired, and it was the last one. I'm sentimental like that. Plus, I love this intro. ❤️🎄🎅
Yeah he is pretty cool looking for sure!
The Master of the Sound Imps just carries himself like a complete badass. His walk is like an unpretentious strut.
LONG LIVE THE IMMORTALS AND FOR THE AGE OF GOODNESS AND PROSPERITY.
RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924-2014) and Jules Bass (1935-2022). Thank you for the classic holiday specials we continue to hold dear to our hearts even today.
May your legacy live on through them. For ages and ages to come, til the last trumpet sounds.
1:05 Rankin-Bass always added nice little personable touches to their puppets' actions; in this case, notice Tingler and his king acknowledging one another.
The King looked like a jolly guy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was friendly to all the Sound Imps.
@@Skits984 Very probably! 🙂
This song always gave me the chillls...
It's awesome!!
This is one of my favorite stories. I consider this to be a modern myth.
kryptonianpowers Probably because it is.
+MaskedMan66 But perhaps one of the most underrated stories that's nearly forgotten.
kryptonianpowers Agreed. I was actually in a stage production of the story, as the Great Ak.
Yes like the Pagan Myths of old.
@103211282925078072338 Yes and no. Like the myths, there are spirits of nature, but every one of the creatures in the story was invented by L. Frank Baum.
I totally lost my sh*! when I saw this as a kid, so happy it's on DVD now...still hum this theme song when I'm working on something.
You hadn't been potty trained yet?
Santa had a cute adopted mother, it seems. :)
"Adoptive" is the word, but yes, Necile is a doll (no pun intended).
I want all of my bookworm nerds to GET YOUR BEHIND UP FOR THE FANTASY LIT LIKE 🔥 NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!
Magic, excitement, wonder, action, fantasy, thrills, adventures, and music. At the beginning of the film, Great Ak summons the immortals to call council to convince them by giving Santa Claus the gift of immortality, so he can continue to bring joy and hope to the world. And I like the song performed by immortal beings, Immortality. It sounds strong and mighty, if I do say so myself. Santa Claus (Kris Kringle, Father Christmas and St. Nicholas). Legendary heroes like Santa and Peter Pan deserve immortality, to live forever and ever without aging and growing old. Perfect for me. I love magic and fairy tales, always have and always will. I never gave up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to grow up, and forget about the precious things I knew, especially those from my childhood. I am like Peter Pan. Believe in magic and never grow up. My one and only wish is to keep the magic alive for all time. I also wish to be a fairy to stay strong, childlike, young, and beautiful forever and ever like the fairies in the forest of Burzee (The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus), Fantasian fair folks (Fantasia/Fantasia 2000), the blue fairy (Pinocchio), the fairy godmother (Cinderella), Tinker Bell (Peter Pan/Tinker Bell), and the celebrated fairy godmothers (Sleeping Beauty). Never grow up, yuck! Merry Christmas, everyone of Burzee, and a happy new year!
This was always my mom's favorite Christmas Special, and honestly, I didn't have as much appreciation for it as a kid. Everything about it is so "Grand" and "Epic", like if The Lord of the Rings (or at least The Hobbit) was about Santa Claus. It's also much more serious in tone compared to Rankin-Bass's other stop-motion productions. It's incredible, and it's nice to know they at least went out with a bang, since this is their last stop-motion special.
People keep bringing up Tolkien's work, but this is based on a book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of Oz and its environs. Rankin-Bass already had its own versions of _The Hobbit_ and _The Return of the King._
@@MaskedMan66 Didn't Baum write the story as a Oz spinoff? I read somewhere before that the Forest of Burzee was actually part of Oz, occupying parts of Oz's western regions. And I think I remember one of the later books in the series had one or two of the fairy folk being present at some court meeting. I think it was one of the books where the Nome King was involved.
@@xalm8761 Burzee isn't in Oz, nor on the Continent of Imagination, as are Oz, Ev, Ix, Merryland, and many other fairylands. It's on our side of the magical barriers, but the Forest is inhabited by fairy folk, including Queen Zurline, whose name is similar to that of Queen Lurline, the mother of Ozma and the creator of Oz. I would imagine that they are of the same train.
And to be sure, all of Baum's fairy stories are connected-- a "shared universe," as the concept's now known-- as evidenced by Santa Claus and many of his attendant creatures being present at Ozma's birthday party in "The Road to Oz." Santa was the guest of honor and sat at the other end of the long dinner table from Ozma herself.
I'd have to look over the books to see about that court meeting you mentioned; it does sound familiar. :-)
I love this song the male chorus just makes it so so epic! I looked all over for a soundtrack to this movie but never found one
L. Frank Baum was such a creative guy.
A genius. :-)
I will never forget this as I saw it once when I was a child and it resonated with me
This immortality song just moves me deep. I love epic chanty songs like this. It makes me think of epic heroes and legends and stuff. Love that sort of thing. Is there a way to get this song without the voiceovers? Just the song itself? I'd love to have this in my library.
I have no idea. I wish there was. Maybe there's a Rankin/Bass soundtrack record out there somewhere.
I find this music kinda Creepy in ONLY when it says Immortality ..lol
The song is called 'Ora e sempre' you cand find several versions in youtube
No, there isn't. At least that I could find. Closest title I found was Ora e pers sempre, or ora e sempre resistanz. Not the same thing at ALL....
I know this is an old comment, but since you love that kind of song, You should look up 'The Bard's Song' done by a group named Van Canto. They do acapella rock. 'Last Night of the Kings' and 'Rebellion' are good, too. Merry Christmas :)
I played the Great Ak in a stage play a few years ago, and I wished we could have used this song.
I'm trying to find this song forever
I always loved this sence since I was a kid. Also I like the battle in this with awagas
Awgwas.
I grew up with this movie. It’s the best!
Love this movie! And this such a good song!
I know this musical fantasy about adventures and life of Santa Claus.🎉❤
Who is here in 2019, to Remember?
George whiplemyer jr. Remembered this from when I was younger, and looked in up online for this Christmas.
Here in 2020 to do the same.
2021 here. Same
15 years since I first seen this and I still get this damn song stuck in my head randomly throughout the year.
This song lives in my head rent free since i was a child. A sort of haunting if you will.
Wish i could find this on dvd to buy
This song is the thing about this movie that hooked itself into my brain, and refused to let the idea of the film be lost to the fog of my childhood. It persisted, and I remember it to this day, 35 years after the last time I actually saw it at 7. "IIIIMORTAAAAALITYYYYYY!" I even remember asking my father what the word meant, and after that I always remembered the definition. Big word for a 7-year-old, but I loved it and was in awe at the concept.
This was my absolute favorite of the Rankin/Bass productions haven’t been able to find it anywhere
It's on DVD.
A great work of art. They don't make them like this anymore.
This was like the Rankin/Bass Lord of the Rings.
Which is ironic considering they did make adaptations of The Hobbit and Return of the King, though those were done in 2D
Merry Christmas to ALL.
And to all a good night!
I remember being obsessed with this version of the story of Santa Claus as a child Moreso than the more mainstream specials that ran at Christmas and in particular loving this sequence and the immortals. I wanted to know all of their backstories and spent hours trying to satisfy myself by inventing my own backstories for them, which never were satisfying enough.
The queen of the water spirits so party she so beautiful
My all time favorite from my child hood, they really need to release this one on DVD so I can add it to my collection. Thanks a million for posting this.
It's available! Just bought it for my dad on Amazon. It's a double feature with Nestor the long-eared donkey.
www.amazon.com/Adventures-Nestor-Christmas-Donkey-Feature/dp/B002VA5A0M/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1418056229&sr=1-1&keywords=life+and+adventures+of+santa+claus
REALLY!!!!!! Hey thanks a million!!!!!
More xmas movies need to start with a council of Pagan gods convening to decide if they should allow santa to die
Neither pagan nor gods. They knew who was really in charge.
@@MaskedMan66 They were the Spirits in charge of various elements.
@@colleen4ever Correct.
you must be extremely fun at parties
When I saw this as a kid I was like FUCK YEAH
What a crazy little Christmas movie. Tolkien meets Santa Claus.
It makes me wonder what a Rankin Bass stop-motion adaptation of Tolkien would have been like.
BAUM meets Santa Claus! This was based on a book by the author of the first fourteen Oz books.
As for Tolkien, they did do cel animated versions of _The Hobbit_ and _The Return of the King._
@@MaskedMan66 That's right! Those definitely have a charm to them. This "council of Elrond" type scene and the battle that happens later on definitely make me visualize some pretty epic 80's Rankin Bass Tolkien animated that will never exist.
@@Irodeapentaceratopstoragnorok Like I said, they did cel animations of Tolkien.
I think this special does make one wonder what other books would look epic if they had been done in Rankin Bass stop motion.
Love this song
RW:i like both versions,Animated (2000) and rankin Bass
Did you know there is also a japanese anime TV series version?
I grew up watching this movie!!! This is one of the best parts 😃😃😃😃
The song is called Ora e Sempre
Cool
most people don't realize this is part of the Oz continuity
This is my childhood right here.
It's too bad that the traditionally animated adaptation of Frank L. Baum's novel isn't as good. Even these character designs look more interesting, particularly Ak, who should have been voiced by Christopher Lee in one of the adaptations.
Beautiful version.
The intro music was so good to listen too
this is one of those specials you really dont see on TV for some reaosn these days, during the holiday season that is..i think the last time i even saw this, let alone ' remember ' watching it, was at least 11-12 plus years ago-
Saw it yesterday on amc.
@@jamescampbell6724 that may of been where i watched it, not sure, i remember seeing it way back in the early to mid 2000's for sure, they really should air this more
L. Frank Baum's lore was as vast and varied as space itself.
Imagine if they pulled out all the cinematic stops and adapted this tale into a high fantasy epic!
I'm watching this right now
Baum probably envisioned the Immortals as something like Pagan gods, and it's clear the filmmakers did too.
i love this song and movie so much! i so love the idea of nature honoring santa for his service to humanity 😭🙏🎄✨ Bright Solstice to you 🤗🎄🎉🌞
The song kinda reminds me of the wedding chant from the 1981 movie Excalibur. Listen to them back to back if you don't believe me.
THIS MY BOP
favorite carrtoon wish put on tv
It isn't a cartoon, but there is a cell animated version.
My favorite one
Thank you.
The Mountain Goats need to cover this masterpiece
My favorite of all the Rankin/Bass movies since my childhood. I wonder why they stopped showing it during the holidays while they continue to show the rest?
+Myrdin Emrys No, it wasn't. It just got very poor ratings. And stop-motion animated specials were, unfortunately, falling out of vogue by the early 80's.
It's going to be on AMC on Christmas Eve at 9:00 am ET in its original state (not cut down for time).
@@myrdinemrys7765 my BFF said his very Christian parents wouldn't let him watch it because it was 'way too pagan'. Which is funny, because so is Christmas...
@@demonanastasi3275 Boy, did you miss the boat!
@@goldilox369 Excuse me? NO IT;S NOT, IT'S THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR SAVIOR, ATHIEST!!!
RIP, Alfred Drake
So kickass!
Happy holidays everyone ❤
my favorite movie love it 1
will someone plz upload the full one of this plz.
Does anyone have a online source that i can watch this in HD or a non-VHS rip quality?
Or should i just buy the DVD?
This movie is 80s fantasy at its finest. It really is a shame that it's always been overshadowed by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without a Santa Claus.
80's nothing! L. Frank Baum wrote this story in 1902. And the other two specials are much older than this one, so naturally they'd be better known.
@@MaskedMan66 Actually, in terms of overshadowing, the original book tends to be overshadowed by Baum's more famous Oz books. Baum wasn't just the "Oz guy," yet that seems to be how a lot of people remember him.
@@dylans.1741 Indeed; he wrote plays, screenplays, songs, articles, essays, and scores of books, many under pseudonyms (including female ones). But even during his lifetime, though he wrote other fantasy novels, it was Oz that the readers, especially the children, wanted.
@@dylans.1741 And to be sure, Baum's version of Santa Claus turned up in Oz in the book "The Road to Oz," where he was an honored guest at Princess Ozma's birthday party.
@@MaskedMan66 From what I can tell, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is set in the same universe as the Oz series. Baum was honestly way ahead of his time, having a shared universe like that long before the MCU popularized the idea
Okay that is good, because I’m all-cartoon, well mostly.
1:55 Who’s the guy in between the Protector of the Knooks and the Grand Duke of the White Elves? I don’t remember him being mentioned.
We have no children or kin! Except for the two who are presented as both heirs AND siblings. LOL.
@@myrdinemrys7765 in the book "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" (yes there is a book) he is called the King of the Light Elves, and Flash and Twilight are his daughters.
+Myrdin Emrys They are princes, not princesses.
+gin ichigama "After the Fairy Queen, whose home you know was in old Burzee, came the King of the Light Elves, with his two Princes, Flash and Twilight, at his back. He never went anywhere without his Princes, for they were so mischievous that he dared not let them wander alone."
They are boys, not girls.
Maybe like Claus, they are also adopted (Changelings maybe)
They have the rank of princes, but nothing says they are related.
The rate light can see the dark
Does anybody have the song ripped from the movie?
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I love this movie. This movie has SOME WEIRD characters looks. Classic Rankin bass. They’re Animations have The weirdest and signature Character designs. But, This movie is awesome, all of there Christmas Animations Are legendary.
The characters come from the mind of L. Frank Baum; he wrote the original story.
(two years later) Also, Rankin and Bass were two men. ;-)
@@MaskedMan66 yeah I know that now, lmao. Hard to believe I wrote that 5 years ago.
@@caderamsey8878 Time flies, dunnit?
What kind of animation is this? Interesting.
Loved this from the first time I saw it back in 85. Peter Jackson should do a live action version.
no no no no
+rain man (Zillions) yes yes yes yes
Awesome Inspector PJ is is an uneducated hack that only half wits that don't read love.
rain man The academy begs to differ.
Awesome Inspector They also gave a Best Picture Oscar to "American Beauty."
1:00- In other words, The Sandman!
This is streaming on AMC+ these days.
can do the other songs too?
"Ora e Sempre," which is Italian for "Now and Forever."
I don't think Princes Flash and Twilight are the sons of the Duke of the Light Elves...
The Princes Flash and Twilight-- or in other words, Prince Flash and Prince Twilight. They are nominally his sons, but of course the Immortals "have no children or kin."
Maybe his younger brothers
@@taylorbriggs2271 Immortals "have no children or kin."
@@MaskedMan66 They look like girls to me!
Also...adopted maybe?
@@colleen4ever They are announced as "The Princes Flash and Twilight." Not Princesses.
would you happen to have the full length movie.?
Anybody knows the name opf that song?
Mauricio Merida It’s Ora E Sempre. It mean Now and Forever in Italian.
The pricess frush she is so pretty and tran light handsome
Flash and Twilight are both boys.
The pricess fuahsh so party
If you mean Flash, he's a prince.
The lord of the sleep beds he everyone every sleeping
The Sleep Fays.
Too bad they left out the Gnome King. Still, this gives me chills.
The king of the Lingsls is handsome
Of the what?
Lyrics christmas-specials.fandom.com/wiki/Ora_e_Sempre
Featuring the cast of ThunderCats and the host of Fun House!
Quite right; Jaga/Mumm-Ra as Claus, Panthro as Awgwa, Lion-O as the Commander of the Wind Demons, Cheetara/WilyKit as Queen Zurline, Snarf as Tingler, and Tygra/WilyKat as Peter Knook.
@@MaskedMan66 Wow!! A mini-reunion as it were.
@@colleen4ever Well, as a matter of fact, they had already done the first season of _Thundercats_ by this time, and still had three seasons ahead of them 🙂
1:42 Don't interrupt The Great Ak, credits!
Man, are they rude or what?
Sorry, what?
Cheetara was in this?!?!
(yes, I'm referring to the original one, NOT the horrid remakes!)