{"id":40945,"date":"2016-12-06T05:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/december-6-1964-a-christmas-classic-was-born\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T10:45:26","slug":"december-6-1964-a-christmas-classic-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=40945","title":{"rendered":"December 6, 1964&#8230;A Christmas Classic Was Born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/december-6-1964-a-christmas-classic-was-born.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDecember 6, 1964&#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 &#8220;Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer&#8221; in living color. It has 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 &#8220;The General Electric Fantasy Hour&#8221;. The GE commercials in the first two years also featured the Rankin\/Bass characters. All the classic Norelco commercials with Santa riding an electric razor are based on this Rankin\/Bass process and look.<\/p>\n<p>At this link is a story on two surviving articulated models used in the filming of the classic from &#8220;Antiques Road Show&#8221;, where they were presented for appraisal a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/stories\/articles\/2006\/5\/15\/is-this-the-real-rudolph\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/stories\/articles\/2006\/5\/15\/is-this-the-real-rudolph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below, the special that we all loved as kids is ready to view! Happy Birthday Rudolph! -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\/1158244680879746\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 1964&#8230;A Christmas Classic Was Born! The evening of December 6, 1964, kids across the country tuned into NBC for the debut of &#8220;Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer&#8221; in living color. It has 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":40872,"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":[796,1193,782,741,786],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-general-electric","tag-general-electric-fantasy-hour","tag-nbc","tag-norelco","tag-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","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=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68299,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions\/68299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}