Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is a 1970 stop motion Christmas television special produced by RankinBass 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 special was originally telecast December 14, 1970 by ABC, which continues to air the special every year along with its sister network Freeform.
About Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (film) in brief
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is a 1970 stop motion Christmas television special produced by RankinBass 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. It tells the story of how Santa Claus and several Claus-related Christmas traditions came to be. 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, though both channels have at times edited the special to make room for commercials. The story begins in the gloomy city of Sombertown, ruled by the ill-tempered Burgermeister Meisterburger.
It is based on the hit Christmas song “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town’, which was introduced on radio by Eddie Cantor in 1934, and the stories of Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus. The movie was created using Japanese stop motion animation called “Animagic’s” in which all the characters are made out of wood and plastic and animated via stop-motion photography. It was released in the U.S. on December 13, 1970, and has since been shown in the UK on Channel 4, Channel 5, Channel 6, Channel 8 and Channel 8 Plus, and Channel 10 Plus, Channel 9 and Channel 9 Plus and Channel 7 Plus, among other channels.
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