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Download, Watch online Frosty the Snowman (1969) Movie.
| Genres: | ComedyFamilyMusi |
| Starring: | Paul Frees, June Foray, Jimmy Durante, Billy De Wolfe, Jackie Vernon |
| Director(s): | Unknown |
| Available Quality: | Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 1969 |
| IMDB Rating: | 7.3 |
A discarded silk tophat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and a young girl who he befriends stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back. This animated short is based on the popular Christmas song of the same name. HD 720p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
16 May 2012
A GREAT CLASSIC!
The 5 stars go for the great classic of "FROSTY" not for "FROSTY RETURNS". It's still nice to have, but the classic is why you should buy this DVD. It aired on Sunday night at 7:30 - 8:00 onCBS 12/7/69 right after another holiday classic which aired 7:00 - 7:30 on CBS..."A Charlie Brown Christmas"
16 May 2012
Frosty Good - Frosty Returns Bad
I purchased this as part of a bundle, including other Rankin-Bass gems "Rudolph," "The Little Drummer Boy," etc.Frosty the Snowman is a delightful, if not cornball, Christmas time gem. It does benefit from the DVD transfer, and if you enjoyed it as a kid, you'll enjoy it again here.Frosty Returns, however, is a piece of unmitigated "politically correct" garbage. If there was a way to erase a portion of a DVD, I would be the first to consign "Frosty Returns" to bit land oblivion.The storyline of "Frosty Returns" is something straight out of a Karl Marx Productions playbook. Here are some of its thematic leftist cliches :* A very bad industrialist wants to profit from evil, destroying snow forever, and by extension our hero Frosty.* The adults are painted as selfish and "mean-spirited" dolts.* The children know better than the adults, and plot to bring about their snowy utopia despite their elders' resistance.* The word "Christmas" is not mentioned once in this video refuse, and is replaced with a PC appropriate, if not pagan, "Winter Festival." I could go on, but you get the picture, so no need to view it on your TV screen.
16 May 2012
A Christmas television classic...!
A gold member of the Christmas classics elite, Frosty the Snowman has entertained generations of children and adults with its holiday magic. Jimmy Durante narrates this 1969 animated creation that features the birth of Frosty - a happy, upbeat snowman brought to life by a magic hat. The story is based on a popular Christmas song of the same name.Since her children are forced to attend school on Christmas Eve (with snow outside none-the-less), a schoolteacher hires a local magician named Professor Hinkle to entertain her class. But Professor Hinkle is anything but a master of his trade. He entertains the kids only by means of their laughter as his ridiculous screw-ups. Frustrated by his failure to perform the famous magic trick of "pulling a rabbit out of a hat," Hinkle throws the old hat out the window. When the children are finally dismissed from school, they build a snowman and name him Frosty. And then something truly magical occurs.A gust of wind blows Professor Hinkle's discarded hat onto the snowman's head, and "presto"! ...Frosty the snowman comes to life with a call of "Happy Birthday"! Immediately, Professor Hinkle decides that he wants to keep his hat after all (so he can profit from its obvious magic powers), but the kids fight him off to save Frosty. However, Professor Hinkle is the least of Frosty's worries. The temperature is on the rise, and Frosty and the kids conclude that the North Pole is where he belongs. Together, they travel to the local train station to buy a ticket to the North Pole.Karen, the leader of the schoolchildren, boards a cargo container along with Frosty, and the two set off for the North Pole. What they don't know is that Professor Hinkle is following them. When they reach the North Pole, Frosty is doing great, but Karen is icy cold. In an attempt to keep her from freezing to death, Frosty takes Karen into a warm greenhouse and lays her inside, but Professor Hinkle slams the door shut - melting Frosty.The greedy magician is perfectly content to walk off in triumph with the confiscated hat, when Santa Clause appears and chastises him for what he has done. He promises Hinkle that he'll never again receive another present if he doesn't help Frosty. Hinkle relents and the cool, North Pole wind restores Frosty into his original snowman form. The hat brings him back to life, and he's reunited with Karen. Santa loads Karen and Frosty on his sleigh, and Karen is flown back to her house, where Frosty promises to return every year.A holiday television classic unrivaled by none, Frosty the Snowman is "must-see" Christmas entertainment for the entire family. Its central theme of life and death are aptly portrayed by a snowman's good cheer and the love a young girl harbors for him. Frosty's charisma solidifies this as an enduring classic, right up there with some of the greats like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)...The DVD Report
15 May 2012
A Christmas classic
This delightful 1969 animation based on the popular song is a holiday treat that many of us grew up watching, and now we can share it with our children. By today's standards, the animation is crude, but the story is heartwarming and the narration and singing by Jimmy Durante make it a priceless treasure.We are introduced to Frosty, a snowman made by some school children with a corncob pipe, two lumps of coal and a magician's hat that brings him to life. When the temperature starts to rise, Frosty hitches a ride on a freight train bound for the North Pole. However, the evil Professor Hinkle is hot on his trail to try to melt Frosty and get his hat back. Finally, Santa Claus saves the day.My son is almost three years old and he loved this video. No doubt your child will too.
15 May 2012
Hurray for Frosty! Blah for Frosty Returns.
I'll chime in and agree with many of the other reviews I've read. Bought this disc this holiday season (as our tape is getting a bit worn - 4yo's watch Christmas specials all year long. Hehe.) Was looking forward to seeing Returns since it's not on the tape and was quite disappointed. Still, the original Frosty is as excellent now as it was when I first saw it as a child, and the DVD transfer is great.Frosty - *****Frosty Returns - ***
14 May 2012
Childhood Classic
This review is from: Frosty the Snowman & Frosty Returns (DVD) I love the fact that my children are now watching the shows that I loved as a child!! Thank you Amazon!!
14 May 2012
Some parts of this film make me melt
What teacher--and school district--would keep kids enrolled so close to the holidays? Didn't they want to take a vacation too! Why weren't the kids's parents protesting the apparent lack of a semester break? I'm sure that my parents would have yanked me out anyways. Even the little kids watching this film would notice such a large plotline gap. I've watched this since I was a kid and I still don't think we would have wanted to be enrolled in such a school. Secondly, Karen decides to travel on the train with Frosty rather than letting him stowaway by himself when they cannot afford to purchase a ticket. She announces that taking the trip would be okay as long as she were home for dinner. Even a little kid can figure out that a train trip takes a long time--particularly to the North Pole, from a presumably American state as evidenced by the classroom flag. Karen is the leader of this group, but she's not very smart. On the plus side, the story does show that Frosty initially has more emotional warmth in him than the human Professor Hinkle. Concerned when Karen is unable to handle the extreme cold, Frosty decides to detour off his trip to help her avoid getting sick from the low temperatures which he needs to stay alive. And Frosty later risks his own 'life' to further protect Karen's, a powerful lesson--if not inherently sociopolitical like the other Rankin-Bass holiday offerings.
13 May 2012
Another Childhood Favorite!!!
Ever since I was a kid, this has been a favorite to watch around Christmas. I can't believe it's already 40 years old. When a dim-witted magician throws his magical hat away, some kids put it on the head of the snowman they just made. He comes alive and they name him 'Frosty' After having fun, Frosty notices the temperature is getting warmer, so Karen tries to get him to the North Pole before he melts away. I highly recommend FROSTY THE SNOWMAN!!!
12 May 2012
Super Christmas Show!!
This is a super Christmas show. I just love Frosty. My favorite Christmas song is Frosty The Snowman. My favorite of the Frosty series is Frosty's Winter Wonderland. It is not on this DVD. I wish that it was. There is plenty of room for it to be. I don't really care for Frosty Returns. It is worth watching once. I don't recomend watching it every Christmas. I could live without watching Frosty Returns again.
12 May 2012
Frosty the Snowman
This review is from: Frosty the Snowman & Frosty Returns (DVD) DVD contains two movies: the original Frosty the Snowman and a new movie I haven't seen on TV called Frosty Returns. The latter is not the one with Crystal, his wife which I assumed it was when I bought the DVD. It is a more modern version that I truthfully do not like content-wise for my 4 year old daughter. There are a lot more modern references and an attitude that I would have preferred she not be exposed to. Just my take. Wish they just had the original on the DVD or had the sequel they show on TV with Crystal instead of this new modern version.
12 May 2012
Pleased.
This review is from: Frosty the Snowman & Frosty Returns (DVD) Excellent video. My 2 year old granddaughter has watched this over and over and loves it.
11 May 2012
Frosty always warms me up
In this holiday animated tale from the 1960's a bright young girl named Karen saves an enchanted snowman named Frosty after he is brought to life by accident. Professor Hinkle is a horrible magician, but it turns out that his hat actually IS magic. It is responsible for bringing Frosty to life and then keeping him animated after it accidentally flies on the snowman which a group of children had just built and named. Professor Hinkle is the 'bad person' of this film, locking Frosty and Karen in a sweltering greenhouse in order to retrieve his windblown hat. Although a close follow-up would be the teacher and school officials who had kids in school the day before Christmas!I originally saw this film when I was a young girl in Colorado, and still cannot figure out what public school would keep kids in class the day before Christmas with heavy snow. At the very least, they would want the holidays off to be with their families and friends too!Despite only being made of snow and a greedy magician's hat, Frosty is a very cool guy in the best sense of the word. He is really attentive to the children and becomes very concerned about Karen when she cannot stand the extreme cold he is naturally able to thrive in. Frosty ultimately has a bigger heart than many of the humans in this same film. His brief demise before Santa steps in made and still makes me sad. The dated graphic animation is a mere technicality. This holiday classic will work its magic on you immediately.
11 May 2012
Frosty good/ Frosty Returns is a stinker
"Frosty the Snowman" is a classic along with The Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town."Frosty Returns" is an Eco-terrorist heist of Christmas. It talks about Winter Festivals, Fertility Goddesses, and evil Big Business. Not one word of Christmas, without which there is no point in the story.The environmental extremism ruins the story. Plus the songs are stinkers. You've never heard any of them on a Chrsitmas album, unless Green Peace has one....My suggestion is buy the DVD and figure out how to scratch out Frosty Returns so you won't get snow burned next year.I would pay twice the price to be able to buy the DVD WITHOUT Frosty Returns.
10 May 2012
Frosty the Blu-ray
For more about Rankin/Bass and Rudolph, check out the books and blog of author/expert Rick Goldschmidt, who helped save the peppermint mine scene.Frosty the Snowman came along in 1968, when the small New York-based Rankin/Bass production company was proving itself in a marketplace dominated by Hollywood animation giants with Saturday morning series (King Kong), feature films (The Daydreamer, Mad Monster Party) and other specials (Cricket on the Hearth). Like all of their weekly series, Frosty was done in what is now called 2-D or cel animation. Almost all of their animation was done in Japan, and this was one completed at Mushi Studios.The animation isn't much more fluid than in their Animagic productions, but it works very well even by today's standards, in which flash is becoming so prevalent in TV cartoons. What makes it stand head and shoulders over most specials is its unerring simplicity, the voice cast (led by Jimmy Durante, Jackie Vernon and Billy DeWolfe) and the rich musical "house style" by Maury Laws. More than anything else, perhaps, the design by Paul Coker, Jr. comes across most dramatically in hand-drawn animation and makes Frosty look like a Christmas card come to life.Watching the crisp, linear Coker images (which resemble his work for countless greeting cards and especially MAD magazine) in Blu-ray is a treat. This was either beautifully preserved or painstakingly restored or both. By daughter remarked that it "looks like it was just made yesterday!"The "bonus" on the disc is Frosty Returns, the 1992 special CBS commissioned years later (though the 1974 Rankin/Bass 'Twas the Night Before Christmas special usually held the ratings in the second half hour following Frosty), was directed by "Peanuts" legend Bill Melendez. CBS may have also requested that the special resemble a "Peanuts" special because Frosty Returns looks almost identical to a show with Charlie Brown and Snoopy.Frosty Returns is notable for several reasons, including the voice of a very young Elisabeth Moss (Peggy Olsen on MadMen) when she was a child actor, a witty script by Oliver Goldstick and Jim Lewis, and a nice supporting cast, especially if you're a SCTV and Saturday Night Live fan (the executive producer was SNL's Lorne Michaels, whose Broadway Video controlled the Rankin/Bass video library at the time).My only quibble is that Frosty Returns either never got the loving care in the vault as it animated predecessor or there was a mastering problem, because there is a lot of "line noise" throughout, almost as if it were a VHS tape instead of a Blu-ray! I might guess that since this show is not the main attraction, it didn't matter as much, but you can't miss the flaws when you can see the images so clearly.Other than that, Frosty the Snowman itself on Blu-ray does indeed look like it was made yesterday, rather than over 40 years ago.For more about Rankin/Bass and Frosty, check out the books and blog of author/expert Rick Goldschmidt, who helped save the peppermint mine scene.NOTE: If you have the original DVD of Frosty, you may want to hang onto to it, though, because the Blu-ray contains no extras.
10 May 2012
Timeless Rankin and Bass Christmas Classic Paired With An Unfortunate "Update".
While it is a total joy to have the classic Rankin and Bass Christmas classic "Frosty the Snowman", on DVD what is disappointing is that it is unfortunately paired on this DVD with a dour "update", of the adventures of the most famous Snowman in the world titled "Frosty Returns", that is a clear victim of "politically correct", agendas. The original 1969 classic "Frosty the Snowman", is a story beloved by generations of television viewers with its catchy tunes, beautiful animation, likeable characters, and unabashed celebration of Christmas and all its traditions. "Frosty Returns", however is seemingly driven by a desire to down play the importance of Christmas traditions altogether, indeed Christmas amazingly is never even referred to once in the story, being instead replaced by a rather unfortunate "Winter festival". Imagining Frosty the Snowman without Christmas is like trying to picture Rudolph without his shiny nose! While the original has charm aplenty "Frosty Returns", also displays a number of less than charming characters, namely Frosty himself who in this story is more sarcastic and jive talking and far less jolly than in the memorable original. This sequel also has some of the most woeful animation and songs in it that you could imagine which only succeeds in making the original classic shine ever more brightly. Seeing these two features side by side on this disk made a number of decades apart clearly illustrates the often discussed "war on Christmas", that seems to be taking place in our western culture and after one screening of the "update" "Frosty Returns", I know I'll be sticking with the original classic "Frosty the Snowman", which still charms all these decades after it was produced by the legendary team of Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass.
09 May 2012
One of the best Christmas stories yet!
"Frosty" is one really great movie. If you'll pardon the pun, it's "really cool" stuff.It's one of my all-time favorite tales of wintertime love which is centered around a magic tale of Christmas,I'm sure.
08 May 2012
CLASSIC
Great Christmas time movie for the whole family. Old school animation brings this movie to life. Story line is great and it will not let any age down as far as being a worth while Holiday flick!
08 May 2012
Old but Goody
Bought as a gift for my grandchildren, and my 4rd old granddaughter still sings the song...so I am guessing it was a good gift.
cooks76082 07 May 2012
One of the Best!
Rankin/Bass are at their best with this holiday favorite. This isn'tthe politically correct version that you see every year on TV. The castof voice-over actors and actresses is top-notched with the likes ofJune Foray, Jackie Vernon and Billy DeWolfe, but who could ever forgetthe great Jimmy Durante as the Narrator along with his vocals on"Frosty the Snowman". Our kids love it as much as we did when we weretheir ages. Get out there and buy it now! You can't go wrong. Irecommend if you can buy it, make sure it was packaged and designed in1993. The one's that are "digitally" remastered are the edited versionsof this all time classic!
Brett Walter 07 May 2012
Another Christmas TV Tradition
Like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" and "Howthe Grinch Stole Christmas" this is one of those timeless holidayspecials.In this one a magic hat brings a snowman to life. However the temperatureis borderline freezing and that means that Frosty could melt. Not onlythat, but the owner of the magic hat, a slimy magician wants the hat backtoget wealthy. Is the suspense killing you?