Rankin/Bass-historian: stop-motion

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Rankin/Bass' Willy McBean & His Magic Machine

C. 2012 Miser Bros Press/Rick Goldschmidt Archives

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Thursday, May 02, 2019

Rankin/Bass' Willy McBean & His Magic Machine

Long before Rankin/Bass' The Last Dinosaur, there was Willy McBean & His Magic Machine (1965) with it's outstanding Animagic! Filmed at the same time they were filming Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with much of the same voice cast with the addition of James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) and others. We have included photos of many of the surviving Animagic cast from the film in our new book Rankin/Bass' Frosty the Snowman 50th Anniversary Scrapbook C. 2012 Miser Bros Press/Rick Goldschmidt Archives #rankinbass #film #thursday #animagic #stopmotion #dinosaurs #cavemen

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

I talked about the Animagic figures in my WDCB interview that will air Sunday!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Daydreamer is 50!

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Animagic from Rankin/Bass' MARCO being restored!

This past weekend brought some ANIMAGIC MAGIC! A few of the Animagic tree eleves from Rankin/Bass' feature film MARCO (1973) reappeared out of the trees of Japan. Masaki Iizuka and I were recently talking about how much we love the Animagic scene in MARCO called "Peace Berries." Masaki said, "I think it was the best Animagic we ever did!"

As you can see from the photographs, they need some serious love and care...the kind that SCREEN-NOVELTIES can give them :) Actually, these are now the property of SCREEN-NOVELTIES and they will do just that. Seamus, Robin and Mark did a wonderful job with the restoral of Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and in some ways, they were in worse shape.

C. 2001 MISER BROS PRESS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

This Tree Elf is from the Romeo Muller estate and features the missing leaf hat that appears to be missing from the boy elf. Gene Muller took some good reference photos for me back in 2001, that I am digging out for the restoral of these two.