Official North Pole Seal. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.


                                       

                                    



                                 Official North Pole Seal.


Today we are going to cover:

                       Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,

and the man who wrote most of the Rankin/Bass movies

Romeo Muller, he was a creative genius who could write anything. This will be a little short but I really hope you like it and if you do please leave a like and comment. So, lets get started. 



The Mailman decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a small baby named Kris who was left on the doorstep of the Kringle family toymakers. When Kris grew up, he wanted to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Burgermeister  is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, there's an evil wizard named Winter who lives between the Kringles and Sombertown, but Kris manages to melt Winter's heart and gives his access to  deliver his toys. He also meets a school teacher Miss Jessica who captures his heart and (spoiler alert)  becomes Mrs. Claus wanted by the authorities  they decide to go north and create the north pole, Kris becomes to old to make all those trips to the children he decides to make it just once a year. 


Santa Claus is Comin' to Town is a 1970 stop motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in New York, New York. The film stars the voices of Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Robie Lester, Joan Gardner, and Paul Frees, as well as an assistant song performance by the Westminster Children's Choir. The film tells the story of how Santa Claus and several Claus-related Christmas traditions came to be. It is based on the hit Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", which was written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie for Leo Feist, Inc. and introduced on radio by Eddie Cantor in 1934, and the story of Saint Nicholas.


The special was created using Japanese stop motion animation called "Animagic", in which all the characters are made out of wood and plastic and animated via stop-motion photography. The special was originally telecast December 14, 1970 by ABC, which continues to air the special every year along with its sister network Freeform as of 2020 (commemorating the special's 50th anniversary), though both channels have at times edited the special to make room for commercials.


This was written by a man who wrote most of the Rankin/Bass specials, Romeo Muller, a creative genius and one of my idols. 








                                        Romeo Muller


Born in New York City during the Depression, it's not surprising that the work of Romeo Muller was always aimed at lifting people up in a lively, joyful spirit. It was always starting to feel a lot like Christmas in the festive TV world of the writer-producer Mr. Muller. In 1964, he ran into and befriended the associates Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. After that point, for more than 20 years as a collaborator with the kidpic producers, Muller penned such persistent TV Christmas fare as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Frosty the Snowman (1969), and Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970). Thanks to Muller's teleplays, five other Rankin-Bass productions did not neglect other legal holidays. Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), _Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1975) (TV)_, and The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town (1977) left the Christmas spirit rest a little. Two feature films owe writing credits to Muller: the lavish live action musical, Marco (1973), and Pinocchio's Christmas (1980), a puppet production. Muller also wrote for several Saturday morning cartoon series, as well as many other children's TV specials. He even once attempted to tackle adaptations of _Hobbit, The (1978) (TV)_, though his writing was criticized by fans of the book for being too simplified. Of course, Muller's own fans argue that his writing style was in fact, always simple, and that was what made his movies full of such clear emotional brevity. Noel (1992), which aired on NBC during the 1992 Christmas season, was Muller's final Christmas calling card. It was narrated by Charlton Heston and aired just a few weeks before Muller's death which occurred, interestingly enough, during the holiday season between Christmas and New Year's. 


I will be covering the Frosty the snowman specials next.
Thanks for joining me on this new blog, hope you like it.  





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