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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 8pm Saturday in NZ, 6pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies A Christmas Story from 1983 and Frosty the Snowman from 1969.
A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley and is a seasonal classic in North America.
It is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by WarnerMedia, and a marathon of the film has aired annually on TNT or TBS since 1997 titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 consecutive airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day.
It is often ranked as one of the best Christmas films.
The film was released on 18 November, 1983, earning two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984.
In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: Bob Clark.
Produced by: René Dupont and Bob Clark.
Written by: Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark.
Based on: In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash: by Jean Shepherd.
Starring: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley.
Music by: Carl Zittrer and Paul Zaza.
Cinematography: Reginald H. Morris.
Edited by: Stan Cole.
Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Distributed by: MGM/UA Entertainment Co..
Release date: 18 November, 1983.
Running time: 94 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $3.3 million.
Box office: $20.6 million.
Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 American animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.
It is the first television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman.
The special first aired on 7 December, 1969, on the CBS television network in the United States; it has aired annually for the network's Christmas and holiday season every year since.
The special was based on the Walter E. Rollins and Steve Nelson song of the same name.
It featured the voices of comedians Jimmy Durante as the film's narrator (in what would be Durante's final performance in a film), Billy De Wolfe as Professor Hinkle, and Jackie Vernon as Frosty.
The special's story follows a group of school children who build a snowman called Frosty and place a magic hat on his head, which makes him come to life with enchanted power. But after noticing the high hot temperature and fearing that he would melt, Frosty, along with a young girl named Karen and a rabbit
named Hocus Pocus, must go to the North Pole to be safe from melting.
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass wanted to give the show and its characters the look of a Christmas card, so Paul Coker Jr., a greeting card and Mad magazine artist, was hired to do the character and background drawings.
The animation was produced by Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan, with Hanna-Barbera staffer Yusaku "Steve" Nakagawa and then-Mushi staffer Osamu Dezaki (who is uncredited) among the animation staff.
Durante was one of the first people to record the song when it was released in 1950 (though at the time the song had slightly different lyrics); he re-recorded the song for the special.
Rankin/Bass veteran writer Romeo Muller adapted and expanded the story for television, as he had done with the "Animagic" stop motion production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
TV Guide ranked the special number 9 on its 10 Best Family Holiday Specials list.
Genre: Christmas special.
Based on: "Frosty the Snowman" by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins.
Written by: Romeo Muller.
Directed by: Arthur Rankin Jr. And Jules Bass.
Voices of: Billy De Wolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees and June Foray.
Narrated by: Jimmy Durante.
Country of origin: United States.
Original language: English.
Production Producers: Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.
Editor: Irwin Goldress.
Running time: 25 minutes.
Production company :Rankin/Bass Productions and Videocraft International.
Release: Original network: CBS
Picture format: 35mm film.
Original release: 7 December, 1969.
Chronology: Followed by: Frosty's Winter Wonderland.
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