IndieWire reached out to a number of current animators about the eternal appeal of the Rankin/Bass stop motion and animated holiday specials like "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" and "Jack Frost." ...

With a “corncob pipe and a button nose,” Frosty the Snowman is available for streaming on Hulu, Disney+, and Sling. This ...

I love the holiday season, especially all the best Christmas movies that I sit around and watch with my family. Among the ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass have had the holiday cartoon market cornered since the 1960s. The creatives behind Rankin/Bass Productions cranked out an astonishing number of Christmas classics in ...

Rankin/Bass Productions specials are legendary with TV as they have been broadcast regularly each holiday for decades at this point, but 56 years ago today the studio released one special that was a ...

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER — Pictured: (l-r) Front Row: Hermey, Rudolph, Head Elf, Yukon Cornelius, Sam the Snowman, Santa Claus (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty ...

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 ...

Apple's ever-so-clever Get a Mac ad campaign has a new addition this week, featuring all your favorite charachters: Mac, PC, and Santa Claus. Marking the 30th commercial in the Get a Mac series, this ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Producer-director Arthur Rankin, Jr. has died at the age of 89. In 1960, Rankin and his partner, Jules Bass, founded their own production company, ...

IndieWire reached out to a number of current animators about the eternal appeal of the Rankin/Bass stop motion and animated holiday specials like "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" and "Jack Frost." ...