Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment (founded and formerly known as Videocraft International, Ltd. and Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.) was an American production...
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company Videocraft International, later named Rankin/Bass Productions, with his friend, Arthur Rankin Jr. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated with...
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Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974...
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company to Rankin/Bass Productions. The two worked closely together for many years, co-directing and producing a wide array of stop motion animated features...
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The Year Without a Santa Claus (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 stop-motion animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's...
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Retrieved May 17, 2023. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Puss in Boots (Rankin Bass Productions)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Archived from the original...
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The Hobbit (1977 film) (redirect from The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass film))
The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass and animated by Topcraft. The film is an adaptation of the 1937...
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Frosty Returns (category 1990s animated television specials)
Snowman. It is the fourth special in a series beginning with Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment's 1969 television adaptation of Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins's...
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Bento Box Entertainment, formerly known as Bento Box Animation, is an American animation studio and entertainment company located in the North Hollywood...
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co-created the adult animated series King of the Hill, had founded an animation studio together known as "Bandera Entertainment", and partnered with Dustin...
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for Series 6–8; did not animate the last four episodes of Series 7, but did animate the first four episodes of Series 8 Animated the last four episodes...
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The Last Unicorn (film) (category Rankin/Bass Productions films)
The Last Unicorn is a 1982 American animated fantasy film directed and produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, from a script by Peter S. Beagle adapted...
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films, comic books, and animation. The studio is best known for their animated action shows, superhero, live action films, and serial novels and comics...
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Illumination (company) (redirect from Illumination Entertainment)
highest-grossing opening for an animated film in its initial release; eight of their films are also among the 50 highest-grossing animated films. Its first film...
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974 TV special) (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions that features Clement Clarke Moore's...
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Frosty the Snowman (TV special) (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 American animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It is the first television special featuring...
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DNA Productions (redirect from DNA Entertainment)
festival for animated projects. After seeing the footage himself, Oderkerk partnered with DNA on two television specials, The O Show and the animated Santa vs...
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Griffin-Bacal's first animations were animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy line. The success of the animated commercials led partners Tom Griffin...
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Adventures block. In 1992, Saban partnered with the Marvel Entertainment Group to produce an animated series based on Marvel's comic-book heroes the X-Men....
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ThunderCats (1985 TV series) (category Rankin/Bass Productions television series)
ThunderCats is an animated science fantasy television series produced by Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment and Leisure Concepts. It debuted in 1985,...
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Jack Frost (TV special) (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
Groundhog Day stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It is directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., written by Romeo...
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design. Located in Culver City, California, the studio has produced CGI-animated films, teasers and ad spots for television, as well as video-game CGI cinematics...
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Splash Entertainment, LLC. (formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc. and MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC) is an American animation studio that produces...
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
Cottontail is a 1971 Japanese-American Easter stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, currently distributed by Universal Television...
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who in turn, through LCI, pitched it to Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment. Both Arthur Rankin Jr and Jules Bass were impressed with the idea and the potential...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (category Rankin/Bass Productions television specials)
(2001), a direct-to-video animated film. Released by a team that produced an unrelated Rudolph movie in 1998, neither Rankin/Bass or its descendant companies...
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Wang Film Productions (category Entertainment companies established in 1978)
Animation and Amblin Entertainment) The Town Santa Forgot (1993, Hanna-Barbera Productions) The Wind in the Willows (1987, Rankin/Bass Productions) Yogi...
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Yahoo! and Cartoon Network to produce animated shorts for the web. It launched wildbrain.com, creating animated web shorts such as "Groove Monkee", "Mantelope"...
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The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with...
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Laika, LLC (redirect from Laika Entertainment House)
Laika Entertainment opened, they announced their first projects, the stop-motion film Coraline, and the CGI animated film Jack & Ben's Animated Adventure...
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