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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 11, 2022 21:38:19 GMT
We lived in Naperville (outside of Chicago) in the mid-60's and watched this every Christmas season. Did it show up anywhere else, does anyone know? Or was it truly a Chicago experience? At any rate, I really love this stuff!
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 12, 2022 17:08:57 GMT
Cripes! That's the most psychotic looking Santa I've ever seen.  Never heard of or saw that before. And whatever became of the other six reindeer? Whitefang |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 13, 2022 2:11:56 GMT
Did it show up anywhere else, does anyone know? Or was it truly a Chicago experience? At any rate, I really love this stuff!
REALLY glad you posted this gem. It didn't make it across the border which is odd since Santa lives here whence last I checked. I had no idea how much of this guy's other work I DO know. It is criminal I don't know him by name. He touches on everything from Star Trek, the Outer Limits, Bambi, Liz Taylor, Dennis the Menace, Planet of the Apes, Land of the Lost...not to mention fine art, sculpture...all this even having suffered a bout of polio that left him without enough strength in his lungs to be able to blow up a balloon. Just a few snips from his wiki page... Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. In the mid-1940s Chang formed a joint studio business with Sloan, The East-West Film Company, and produced such memorable films as Pick a Bale of Cotton (an interview and performance with the legendary blues and folk singer Lead Belly in 1944) and the highly controversial anti-war short (1946–47), The Way of Peace, created in part with elaborate miniature sets and puppets in stop-motion. |
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 13, 2022 5:06:09 GMT
Why, thanks, Galacticgirrrl for putting us on to some information about this. I never really bothered looking up much about it, but just remembered seeing it from way, way back. Seems WGN out of Chicago had been airing it since 1956 -- a good 9 years before I moved to Illinois.
One account says that it was first shown in Johnstown, PA in 1951. But I guess it was really a staple for a true Chicago Christmas.
Take a deep breath, Sepiatone: Santa Claus is modeled after its creator -- the one Galacticgirrrl discovered. Only us Chicagoans could handle something like that on Christmas Eve. You guys in Detroit; well....
Glad you all enjoyed this. Stop-motion is without a doubt my favorite style of animation.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 13, 2022 18:01:31 GMT
We guys in Detroit have two(that I know of) Santas. The traditional and the black Santa of course(I have a funny personal story about that. I may or may not relate it sometime). My wife would occasionally wonder why, since there is a large Latino community in Detroit, there's no Latino Santa. I'd kid her by asking, "Didn't they name a city in California after him?" and she'd ask, "What city?" And unable to resist, I'd answer..... "Santa Cruz!"  She'd then punch me in the arm. Then I'd ask, "He's family anyway, isn't he?" (Cruz was my wife's maiden name. ) Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 16, 2022 3:46:44 GMT
Stop-motion is without a doubt my favorite style of animation.
Do the Rankin/Bass items get played in your area? I know they are technically American but quite a bit was done up here – to save money I think I heard someone say but I think our dollars were on par so maybe a tax incentive. Rudolph lived here which was kind of neat.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 16, 2022 3:58:12 GMT
We guys in Detroit have two(that I know of) Santas. The traditional and the black Santa of course(I have a funny personal story about that. I may or may not relate it sometime). My wife would occasionally wonder why, since there is a large Latino community in Detroit, there's no Latino Santa. I'd kid her by asking, "Didn't they name a city in California after him?" and she'd ask, "What city?" And unable to resist, I'd answer..... "Santa Cruz!" She'd then punch me in the arm. Then I'd ask, "He's family anyway, isn't he?" (Cruz was my wife's maiden name. ) Sepiatone I have a terribly awkward question about black Santa that is meant with love and affection but it could all go terribly wrong in the typing. INFORMATION, PLEASE!Is this snip from Welcome Back Kotter from a real song? Family members claim they recall something like it being played on radio that is NOT "Santa Claus Is a Black Man" by Teddy Vann, performed by his daughter Akim Vann (billed as Akim) in 1973. |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 16, 2022 17:03:27 GMT
Don't recall that tune, but it's kinda cute. You can get a clip of it at the end of the Kotter clip you posted. And it is hard to hear what's being sung on the Kotter clip so I can't answer that query.
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