{"id":23349,"date":"2014-12-06T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23349"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:10:36","slug":"50-years-ago-today-a-christmas-classic-was-born-the-evening-of-december-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23349","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago Today&#8230;A Christmas Classic Was Born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/50-Years-Ago-Today...A-Christmas-Classic-Was-Born-The-evening-of-December-6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n50 Years Ago Today&#8230;A Christmas Classic Was Born!<\/p>\n<p>The evening of December 6, 1964, kids across the country tuned into NBC for the debut of &#8216;Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer&#8217; in living color. It&#8217;s aired every year since.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas television special was produced in stop motion animation by Rankin\/Bass Productions, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of &#8216;The General Electric Fantasy Hour&#8217;. The GE commercials in the first two years also featured the Rankin\/Bass characters.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a clip of the Burl Ives &#8220;Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; segment. I watched&#8230;did you? Happy Birthday Rudolph! Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BctWze2UMj4&#038;ab_channel=MovieNight<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/764082863629265\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Years Ago Today&#8230;A Christmas Classic Was Born! The evening of December 6, 1964, kids across the country tuned into NBC for the debut of &#8216;Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer&#8217; in living color. It&#8217;s aired every year since. The Christmas television special was produced in stop motion animation by Rankin\/Bass Productions, and was sponsored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[796,1193,782],"class_list":["post-23349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-general-electric","tag-general-electric-fantasy-hour","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59418,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions\/59418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}