![]() Voiced by Dick Shawn, Snow Miser and his band of miniature-sized minions bring down the house in what just might be the best musical number ever in a kid’s holiday special. Heat Miser controlled all the warm weather in the world, but it was his frigid brother Snow Miser (who, of course, controlled all the cold weather) that really caught my attention. ![]() While most will point to ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ as the best of the lot, I hold a special place in my heart for 1974’s ‘ The Year Without a Santa Claus‘, which introduced us to the most famous set of siblings this side of Frank and Jesse James: the Miser Brothers. Whether this movie will be held up as a classic over time remains to be seen, but we’d like to celebrate the effort by remembering some of our other favorite stop-motion productions, both from cinema and TV.Īs most of you know, the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated specials were a big staple of the 1970s, particularly during Christmas. This week, studio Laika keeps the format breathing with ‘The BoxTrolls’. In this age where computer-generated animation has largely supplanted older traditional methods, the labor intensive stop-motion process is a dying breed.
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