Talk:Rankin/Bass Productions

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Witch's Night Out[edit]

Not a Rankin/Bass production! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.18.43 (talk) 22:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fanpage[edit]

Reads like a fanpage - need cleanup. Davodd 02:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

didn't seem that bad to me. I cleaned up the "rankin/bass today" section, renamed "along came rudolph" section to just "rudolph", and removed the npov and cleanup tags. -- Akb4 19:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think that the Rudolph section should be included with the section about the other holiday specials. I don't see much reason for them to be separate. Caterfree10 (talk) 02:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Coker, Jr.?[edit]

No mention of the principal designer for most of the classic Christmas specials? DarkAudit 19:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

production list split[edit]

I think it'd be good if the cel animated and stop-motion animated productions were differentiated. -- Akb4 19:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography?[edit]

Some of the movie links at the bottom don't actually point to the listed at the bottom don't point to the appropriate pages. "Twas the night before christmas" for example points to the poem instead of to a page about the Rankin/Bass film. There are other examples of this too.

Rankin/Bass logos[edit]

I can understand wanting to keep the 1975 Rankin/Bass logo to help in the description of this article, but why remove the other logos (including the 1966 Videocraft logo) when they are just as useful in describing the company's history? Starbuck-2 21:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Showing logos falls under fair use as it is; simply showing a group of logos doesn't qualify. —tregoweth (talk) 22:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Perhaps we could at least keep the Videocraft logo to include in the section on Rankin/Bass' origins, then. Starbuck-2 23:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - That would probably be okay; what should be avoided is just a gallery of logos (closing logo fans can get carried away sometimes...) —tregoweth (talk) 02:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - I like a gallery of logos, preferably with motion and sound. Where is the best place to find one? NBK1122 (talk) 12:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Please Verify[edit]

Is there any proof of this upcoming "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" Christmas Special or is this a rumor created by a fan? Verification is a high standard on this site, rumors are not.--Ace Darville (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The King and I[edit]

Did Rankin/Bass Productions co-produced the 1999 animated film with Morgan Creek Productions and Nest Entertainment? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.53.89 (talk) 02:07, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ownership of That Girl in Wonderland[edit]

Who owns the rights to That Girl in Wonderland, DreamWorks Animation/DreamWorks Classics or Warner Bros.? 24.180.56.157 (talk) 22:19, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Animagic[edit]

Do we have an article or section somewhere about this term? I noticed it mentioned on the 1985 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (film):

"This was Rankin/Bass's final "Animagic" stop motion animated special produced in Japan. Future specials and series would be traditionally animated from this point on"

I would like to know all the films which are considered 'animagic' and produced in Japan, it would be an interesting list, whether on its own article or to redirect this term to a section here. Ranze (talk) 21:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We still lack an article on Animagic. Apparently it was the company's term for a "special kind of wood-based puppetry". See external link. It reportedly gave their works a "very distinctive visual style".

As far as I know, most of the works from Rankin/Bass Productions were animated in Japan. They outsourced work to Dentsu Motion Pictures, MOM Production, and various other studios. All Animagic specials were animated by Tadahito Mochinaga (1919-1999), a Japanese pioneer in stop-motion animation. Dimadick (talk) 22:10, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I guess doing DMP/MOM articles would be a good first step for building info on R/B, do you think Animagic should maybe redirect to a section on Mochinaga's article? Ranze (talk) 18:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? Dimadick (talk) 09:21, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]