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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.

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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.

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2009
12/07
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Hippasus Gurgles: We are the Pattern-Makers, and We are the Dreamers of Dreams

Michael Carlisle examines the world “outside” sequential art to find… more sequential art.

I was reading the J.J. Abrams-edited issue of this month’s Wired magazine.

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The cover of the Wired article is a reference to J.J. Abrams’ “mystery box”, that he refers to in his TED talk from 2007.

It simultaneously thrilled and depressed the hell out of me.

I know there are many puzzles embedded within; all one needs is time to unravel them.

Time is precisely one of the things I don’t have right now. I am still embarked on my long journey to take some existing logical sequences, change many of them in some slight way, reorder them a bit so a new logical sequence takes shape, and publish the results.

This takes a long time.

So there’s been a lot of studying, a lot of putting things “in the right order” so it all “makes sense”, whatever that means.

Sometimes I just like to see some things “out of order” (again, whatever that means).

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2009
05/08
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