The weird, wonderful stop-motion elves behind your childhood trauma and joy.
An all-new documentary celebrating the legacy of the holiday specials created by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass including interviews with filmmakers and historians.
Production
Miniature sets built by obsessed craftspeople in Tokyo.
Acting
Voice actors who became the sound of Christmas itself.
Director
Constantine Nasr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rankin/Bass outsourced their 'Animagic' productions to Tadahito Mochinaga's studio in Japan, the same team that later influenced Studio Ghibli's early work.
These specials essentially invented the modern Christmas television event—before 1964, holiday programming barely existed as a genre.
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