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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?' (Rankin/Bass) It’s the 60th anniversary of this beloved ...

Singing elves. Dancing snowmen. The awkward beauties of stop-motion animation. Yuletides threatened by mad professors, insane dictators, giant buzzards and Arab stereotypes. Welcome to the world of ...

Director Jules Bass, whose holiday classics “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been enjoyed by generations of viewers, died Tuesday. Bass died at an assisted living facility ...

He and the late Arthur Rankin Jr. also worked on such classics as 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,' 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail' and 'Mad Monster Party.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Rankin/Bass ...

The Rankin/Bass Productions specials remain a steady holiday watch tradition even all these decades later, but there are a few of them that deserve way more love than they get. Rankin/Bass Productions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and ...

What kind of Christmas would it be without the resourceful Rudolph or Hermey the aspiring dentist, without friendly Frosty or the dastardly Heat and Snow Misers? Jules Bass brought them all to vivid, ...

In the spirit of the magic of the season (and in hopes of providing some warm respite from the usual end-of-the-year best-of deluge of stories and their attendant doldrums), IndieWire is proud to ...