Rudolph the Red Nose (1964)

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Movie
German title Rudolph with the red nose
Alternative title:
Rudolph with the red nose: How it all began ...
Original title Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 53 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Larry Roemer
script Romeo Muller , Robert May
production Arthur Rankin Jr. , Jules Bass
music Johnny Marks

Rudolph the Red-Nosed (Original Title: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ) is a stop-motion - animated film from director Larry Roemer in 1964. He is the predecessor of the film Rudolph the Red-Nosed 2 . In 1998 the story also came out as Rudolph the Red Nose in an animated version with a modified story and a few alternate characters.

action

Christmas is in danger, American newspapers report: "Bad weather could postpone Christmas!" Santa Claus can therefore not deliver his gifts to the children on time for Christmas Eve. The snowman Sam from the winter forest tells about the reindeer Rudolph, who was born with a bright red nose. He is the son of the lead reindeer Donner des Santa's sleigh. Due to this peculiarity, however, Rudolph is teased and marginalized by the other reindeer. Even his father doesn't accept him because of this blemish. Hermey (Hermann), one of the Christmas elves, is also dissatisfied with his lot. He'd rather be a dentist than make toys for Santa Claus. The other elves therefore avoid him. This also causes him to conflict with Santa Claus. So Hermey and Rudolph are comrades in suffering, so they join forces with other different types such as the spurned toys or the snow monster. Hermey and Rudolph return to the Christmas city to save the delivery of the presents, which was endangered by the snow storm, because Rudolph can show Santa Claus the way thanks to his red nose and thus save the festival.

background

This animated film is a film adaptation of a poem written in 1939 by Robert L. May . His brother-in-law Johnny Marks set the subject to music in 1949 under the title Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the Christmas program on US television. The film is animated with lovable and simply designed dolls. The figures were shot in single shots using the so-called stop motion technique in a modeled winter world. The individual scenes are thematically accompanied by songs.

The film is available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .

criticism

The 1964 film is considered a classic in the art of modeling clay. “A great children's film that encourages children to be different from others.” Even if the animations are not always smooth, Rudolph the red nose is still a nice Christmas film.

literature

  • Robert Lewis May, David Wenzel: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Grosset & Dunlap, New York 2001, ISBN 0-448-42534-3 .
  • Robert Lewis May, Edward Asner: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Applewood Books, Chester 1991, OCLC 25932572 . (Audio book)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolph the Red Nose (USA 1964) at cinedat.org, accessed November 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ Rudolph with the red nose - The original on top-videonews.de, accessed on November 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rudolph with the red nose (1964) on tofunerdpunk.blogspot.de, accessed on November 27, 2013.