IndieWire reached out to a number of current animators about the eternal appeal of the Rankin/Bass stop motion and animated ...

Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” The production company formed by ...

It’s the 60th anniversary of this beloved classic claymation Christmas special from Rankin/Bass! 60 years ago, Rudolph went from an outcast in his community to the only reindeer who can save Christmas ...

Of all the great things about television, the greatest is that it’s on every single day. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and small. In an effort to better appreciate this ...

Arthur Rankin Jr., the Rankin of Rankin/Bass Productions, makers of holiday specials and sundry other animated goods, died Jan. 30, age 89, in Bermuda, where he had lived for many years, under the ...

Of the five vintage TV Christmas specials that still command an annual network airing—Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, and ...

While Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass may have encouraged everyone to get along and not to play favorites, we don’t care. It’s time to pick the best and the worst of the timeless, beloved, December ...

OAK LAWN, Ill. (WLS) -- Nearly every square inch of author Rick Goldschmidt's Oak Lawn home is filled with a collectible item, many of them connected to the prolific TV producers Arthur Rankin and ...

Jules Bass, whose work as a producer and director of stop-motion and animated television specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and The Year Without A Santa ...