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Maury Laws (December 6, 1923 – March 28, 2019) was an American television and film composer from Burlington, North Carolina. ... (now known as Rankin/Bass), ...
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes is an animated television special broadcast on ABC on Monday night, February 21, 1972. [1] The special was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, a former division of Tomorrow Entertainment, using their "Animagic" stop-motion puppetry technique in Japan, along with some live-action footage shot in Denmark.
Julius Caesar Bass (/ b æ s /; September 16, 1935 – October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer and author. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, [ 5 ] and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft International , later named Rankin/Bass Productions , with his ...
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. ... Composer Maury Laws told Goldschmidt, “I tried to come up with something ...
Maury Laws served as musical director for almost all of the animated films and television programs. Romeo Muller was another consistent contributor, serving as screenwriter for many of Rankin/Bass' best-known productions including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), The Little Drummer Boy (1968), and Frosty the Snowman (1969).
The television special features eight songs with music by Maury Laws and lyrics by Jules Bass, and combines live action filmed in Aarhus, Denmark, animation, special effects, and the stop motion animation process "Animagic" made in Japan.
Once the character voices were recorded, along with background music by Maury Laws, with Jules Bass writing songs and lyrics for the film, the animation production was done by Topcraft in Japan under supervision of Toru Hara, Tsuguyuki Kubo, Kazuyuki Kobayashi and others. [citation needed]
Jules Bass: Romeo Muller Arthur Rankin Jr. Maury Laws: TCJ Animation Center: Traditional [4] The Mouse on the Mayflower: 1968 Romeo Muller: Toei Animation [5] The Little Drummer Boy: Colin Romoff MOM Production Stop-motion [6] Frosty the Snowman: 1969 Maury Laws Jack Rollins Steve Nelson: Mushi Production: Traditional [7] The Mad, Mad, Mad ...