The Year Without a
Santa Claus is a classic children’s animation about a Santa Claus who is
thoroughly disgruntled with Christmas and opts to take a year off from
delivering presents.
However Mrs. Santa and
elves Jangle Bells and Jingle Bells have other ideas when Jingle and Jangle
decide to go out to find children to convince Santa that the Christmas spirit
is still important to everybody else.
But they have to get
past Heat Miser and Snow Miser, first, before they land in Southtown, USA,
where it never snows for Christmas, where they find Ignatius Thistlewhite who
is desperate for it to snow, but the Miser Brothers won't agree to let it snow
in Southtown but Mrs. Santa knows their mom, Mother Nature and so the crisis is
averted.
This endearing
Rankin-Bass masterpiece is a wonderful example of stop motion animation with aided by the vocal talents of Shirley
Booth (Mrs. Santa), Mickey Rooney (Santa Claus), Dick Shawn (Snow Miser),
George S. Irving (Heat Miser), Bob McFadden (Jingle Bells), Bradley Bolke
(Jangle Bells), Ron Marshall (Mr. Thistlewhite), Colin Duffy (Ignatius
Thistlewhite), Christine Winter (Blue Christmas Girl) and Rhoda Mann (Mother Nature).
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