What ACTUALLY Happened to the Rudolph Puppets? - The Bizarre History Behind the Animagic

this video was epic and I love your puppet

It's kind of clever to see all this time that the original stop-motion puppets were kept by their creator. Yet the dupes are tied to the exact same production team, so it's not like they don't have historical merit. (Funny mistake to be made, but I could see where people don't want to lose the charm of how they were assessed even if they're figures for promo shots and not the animations.) And I'm sure that in that kind of process they likely had more as back-ups in case something broke, or as mentioned having parallel production lines to get more camera work done before editing. To me it makes sense that there would be two or three to potentially swap out to keep the frame shots going while another puppet rig gets mended at some point.

Coming to this video well after the holiday season but still loved it a lot! Thank you for making it!

Pointing out thaf America was a colonial power to Japan and downplaying that Japan was also a colonial power seems strange

Brother, it isn't 'So-Called' Manchuria, the region is CALLED Manchuria/Manchukuo, because it's the historical ethnic homeland of the Manchus!

🤯-Luke.

If i had a nickel for every video about general electric advertising to children I've seen this week I'd have etc etc

This is so cool! I never knew I'd be facinated/ curious about the Puppets from those Rankin Bass Specials. (Also, finding out that the Origin of Santa special was a different animation studio makes SO much sense. It has such a different art style for the puppet's faces.

they may not have been used in a lot or any animation but they are still genuine puppets made for the special (wires break all the damn time, there's probably more then 10 rudolphs in various states of decay up in that attic never to see the light of day 'cause you'd have to basically rebuild them from scratch to make them presentable)

gotta love the whole ''remember kids japans colonialism and war crimes never existed'' shit channel

Sambo has become the real life Voldemort it seems lol though I do get how it could make people uncomfortable.
I've always been curious about the history of Rankin Bass animations. It's so cool to see its technically an anime now lol

It’s like you made this for me!! So niche I loved it so much. Subscribed!

Why is "The Story Which Must Not Be Named" not allowed to be named? I read the story as a child and cannot understand what people have against a story about a little East Indian boy.

“WHY WERENT YOU AT ELF PRACTICE?!?!?”

I will say, huge epilepsy/photosensitivity warning for this video

No wonder the characters looked so cute

Incredible video! I appreciate all the time and research that went into it.

Anime is not this.

Commenting to help the vid

OH OK DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..........

Just wanted to say because of your training i did notice the VCR/tube TV filter you used. It adds a nice touch.

thanks for the info sawm jwamp

He gave them to his secretary who gave them to her kids... Wow!

"Yukon Cornelius is my favorite Anime Character" is not a scentence I ever thought could be grammatically correct, but here we are.

appreciate your effort to credit your sources and inspirations directly

very very interesting video! I'm thankful the puppets are in good hands, sad we will never see them again. but atleast they're loved in their own way

Yo i have that movie on DVD
It's so old tho

This is funny lmao.

That was one heck of a tangent!

tbh Santa in Rudolph the REd-Nosed Reindeer...

was kind of a jackass.

I am OBSESSED, I learned so much here. Great documentary work.

TOOK 23 MIN TO SAY WAS TRASHED, TOOK HOME LEFT IN AN ATTIC, SLIGHTLY MELTED, REFOUND, AND TAKEN TO ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW AND VALUED OVER 300,000$.

I have always adored Rudolph. And i mean ADORED, i love that little deer. This video is great

The insane lengths American media will go to make something seem "American" is insane. The fact that many didn't know this was animated in Japan to the point of assuming the puppets had been destroyed instead of simply being in japan is crazy.
You really weren't lying when you started by saying it was an Anime.

Makes sense Rankin Bass a was an anime studio. The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn are prime Japanese animations.

hi! Not from here, but to help with engagement! Your set rigging looks amazing, really well done

me gusa

wow! i had absolutely no idea how much Japanese culture was involved and how it's basically an anime and how much the world war affected things and how it was originally a marketing campaign for the general electric company!

Stop motion is such an impressive and enchanting style of entertainment, really interesting to learn about its roots!

this video was done super well and it was super interesting. kudos!

Your portrayal of Japan in the 1960s as some poor weak vulnerable country exploited by the US as this wealthy colonial power is a gross mischaracterization of the 1960s economy. It’s more like two wealthy colonial nations doing business with each other. Not only was 20th century Japan one of the most brutal, oppressive, genocidal, colonial powers in world history, hardly an innocent victim of American imperialism, but the “Japanese economic miracle“ post World War II meant that during the period that these movies were made, Japan was the third largest economy in the world, only behind the US and USSR. Japan was a very wealthy nation at this time, even surpassing their pre-war economy at the height of the Japanese Empire, and there were a lot of economists who believed Japan would eventually overtake the US to become the largest economy in the world, though this never happened due to the Japanese stock market crash in the early 90s. Even today, animation in Japan is made at lower cost and tighter deadlines than in the US, but it’s not because the big bad Americans are exploiting them it has to do with the Japanese work culture in general that affects many Japanese industries besides animation.

Maybe in time the Robot Chicken, Rudolf figures will be just as valuable.

Cool video,this has to be one of greats for sure.I'm 57 and I can remember the town I lived in would be a ghost town when this was on.I let our dog out during a commercial and the town was so quiet ,I could hear the traffic light click as it changed which was almost a block from where we lived.Iconic for sure

So this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, and I’m very impressed! You’ve absolutely won a new subscriber, I love this movie and I never would have known about this history!

The missing nose is freaking me out man. Sweet satan that thumbnail is nightmare fuel, it's like looking at a gory pic that you can't stop staring at. Btw fantastic job at this video essay!

I looked for a documentary on these specials and all I found/watched were mostly just talking about how great of movies they were and nothing to little about how they were made. Thank you!