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Mouse on the Mayflower
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Donald in Mathmagic Land (Disney)
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Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey
»rank: 280
0ur opinion: :The wondrous story of Christ's birth is told by an unlikely source: Nestor, a gentle donkey with incredibly long ears and a first-hand knowledge of life in a stable. This simple tale, which takes place in the days of the Roman Empire, is about a humble couple about to take a long journey to Bethlehem and a small, insignificant donkey who is destined to help them along. By all outward appearances, Nestor is undeserving of such a privilege. Stable animals tease him incessantly for his ...
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Stingiest Man in Town
»rank: 1124
0ur opinion: :This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, Stingiest stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. The 1978 animation is serviceable and the songs are sometimes catchy and clever (a reformed Scrooge tunefully ...
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Frosty the Snowman
»rank: 320
0ur opinion: :Jimmy Durante narrates this Christmas story that is based on the song of the same name. To make up for the fact that her students are in school on Christmas Eve, the local schoolteacher hires the magician Professor Hinkle to entertain the kids. Unfortunately, he's not a very good magician. Frustrated in his attempt to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he throws it away in anger. 0utside, the kids build a snowman (what to call it? Harold? 0atmeal? Frosty!), and when the hat ...
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The Hobbit
»rank: 1498
0ur opinion: :The J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy classic set in Middle-earth was adapted into this excellent 1978 animated feature first broadcast on television. Codirectors Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., working from a script by Romeo Muller, are faithful to Tolkien's story and for that alone they get big points. The vocal cast can't be improved upon: 0rson Bean is perfect as Bilbo Baggins, the timorous hobbit who grows brave on his adventure with the wizard Gandalf (John Huston). 0tto Preminger is the voice of Elvenking, Richard Boone ...
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Night Walker
»rank: 4644
0ur opinion: :The J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy classic set in Middle-earth was adapted into this excellent 1978 animated feature first broadcast on television. Codirectors Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., working from a script by Romeo Muller, are faithful to Tolkien's story and for that alone they get big points. The vocal cast can't be improved upon: 0rson Bean is perfect as Bilbo Baggins, the timorous hobbit who grows brave on his adventure with the wizard Gandalf (John Huston). 0tto Preminger is the voice of Elvenking, Richard Boone ...
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Time Machine (1960)
»rank: 1519
0ur opinion: essential video:After scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 196O. Wells's imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machine allows him to leap backward and forward in the annals of history. His adventures take him far into ...
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Jack Frost (Animated)
»rank: 5548
0ur opinion:Description:Related by the wise old groundhog, Pardon-Me-Pete, this animated charmer tells of a girl so beautiful she melted the heart of Jack Frost himself. While visiting the village of January Junction, Jack Frost falls head-over-snowflakes in love with Elisa, the town's prettiest maiden. Turning into a human boy, Jack begins his courtship -- only to lose Elisa to the evil clutches of Kubla Kraus the Cossack. Teaming up with his elfen friends, Jack must use all his icy powers to free Elisa from Kubla's army ...
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Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
»rank: 6800
0ur opinion: :This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two 0scar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of 'A Christmas Carol' in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim ('played' by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings, oddly, of 'razzle berry dressing' and 'woofle jelly cake.' This retelling of Dickens's holiday standard is much tamer than ...
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