1971: 'A Christmas Carol' animated adaptation airs "A Christmas Carol" received an animated adaptation in 1971. The rendition was just 25 minutes long and won an Oscar that year for Best Animated Short.1972: The US bombs Hanoi on Christmas AFP // Getty Images 1972: The US bombs Hanoi on...
I'm sure you know the Christmas song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Originally recorded by Gene Autry, the song has been a holiday hit since 1949. Then there are the TV specials that we all watched as kids. I bring the 'Rudolph' song up because my daughter has been singing it.....
Attractions at its An Old Time Christmas celebration include a living nativity scene, an interactive children's show featuring a 12-foot singing Christmas tree, a meet-and-greet with Rudolph himself, and holiday-themed plays, but the most popular by far is the incredible light display. Silver ...
Brett Ratner was never anyone’s first choice to direct an X-Men film. And from the film itself, and the stories thatfollowed, it’s not hard to see why.The Last Standsmashes together Chris Claremont and John Byrne’sThe Dark Phoenix Saga, widely considered to be the best X-Men story,...
New Yorker film critic John Mosher found the premise of King Kong ridiculous, but he also found many of its scenes diverting, especially those featuring Kong and a number of prehistoric creatures (created by Marcel Delgado), miniature models brought to life through stop-motion animation techniques...
In Christmases past, we featuredCharles Dickens’ hand-edited copy of his beloved 1843 novellaA Christmas Carol. He did that hand editing for the purposes of giving public readings, a practice that, in his time, “was considered a desecration of one’s art and a lowering of one’s dignity...
While we’ve previously written about theorigins of greeting cards at Christmas(and who first sent them), today we’re taking a look at the oldest shop in which they’re still sold in London – often said to be the Medici Gallery in South Kensington. ...
I recently checked our schedule for every weekend leading up to Christmas--which is ON a weekend (Sunday) this year--and I came to the conclusion that there aren't enough weekends between November 1st and December 25th. There CERTAINLY aren't between this date and Christmas, so we'll have...
I was looking through a Christmas box last night and found a Christmas card. Actually, I found a pretty cool Christmas card (at least to me). Now that I think about it, it's the only Christmas card I've ever kept and not thrown away when the holidays were over. But, then again,...
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