Click, Click, Click #7: The changing political attitudes of a Rankin-Bass Christmas #1: 1965-1974
Mr. C has decided to grace us with 30 festive frames per second of animated (and puppetized) Christmas cheer.
One of the prime franchises in Christmas specialdom is the animation outfit heralded by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. Produced in Japan, these animations have lasted through year after year, airing in broadcast, then licensed to cable networks, and are now on DVD and appearing online.
This will be a quick-and-dirty naive analysis of the political leanings of many of Rankin-Bass Christmas specials from the 1960s through the 1980s.