gift of love brought frosty the snowman back to life.
gift of love brought frosty the snowman back to life.
who brought frosty the snowman back to life?
gift of love
in 1969, rankin/bass productions produced a 25-minute television special, "frosty the snowman", featuring the animation of japanese studio mushi production, and the voices of comedians jimmy durante as the narrator, billy de wolfe as professor hinkle and jackie vernon as frosty. paul frees and june foray both also voice characters including karen and santa claus in this animated special produced and directed by arthur rankin jr. and jules bass. this was a story based on the discovery of frosty the snowman. three sequels were produced, "frosty's winter wonderland" (based upon the song "winter wonderland" and animated by topcraft in japan) in 1976, in which frosty got married, and "rudolph and frosty's christmas in july" (with japanese stop motion animation technique "animagic") in 1979, followed by "the legend of frosty the snowman" in 2005 (a collaboration between dreamworks classics and the canadian company studio b, and the last of which had bill fagerbakke take over as frosty's voice after vernon's death, while the philippines' top draw animation carry out the services of animation, ink and paint, and composition).
frosty the snowman
in a school on christmas eve, a teacher hires professor hinkle, an inept magician, to entertain her class for their christmas party. after fumbling a trick, he throws his hat away in disgust. it then bounces off the trash can and release his white rabbit, hocus pocus, who wears the hat and humiliates hinkle (much to the children's amusement). class is dismissed and the children go to play in the snow where they build a snowman. after debating and rejecting several names, a girl named karen chooses the name "frosty." hocus comes out of the school with the hat, which is then caught in a gust of wind until karen grabs it and puts on frosty's head, causing him to magically come to life. when hinkle sees this, he takes the hat back, turning the snowman back to his previous in-animated self. hinkle refuses to give the hat back, planning to use the obviously-magical hat to become rich.
frosty the snowman (film)