This song is the thing about this movie that hooked itself into my brain, and refused to let the idea of the film be lost to the fog of my childhood. It persisted, and I remember it to this day, 35 years after the last time I actually saw it at 7. "IIIIMORTAAAAALITYYYYYY!" I even remember asking my father what the word meant, and after that I always remembered the definition. Big word for a 7-year-old, but I loved it and was in awe at the concept.
I remember being obsessed with this version of the story of Santa Claus as a child Moreso than the more mainstream specials that ran at Christmas and in particular loving this sequence and the immortals. I wanted to know all of their backstories and spent hours trying to satisfy myself by inventing my own backstories for them, which never were satisfying enough.
Magic, excitement, wonder, action, fantasy, thrills, adventures, and music. At the beginning of the film, Great Ak summons the immortals to call council to convince them by giving Santa Claus the gift of immortality, so he can continue to bring joy and hope to the world. And I like the song performed by immortal beings, Immortality. It sounds strong and mighty, if I do say so myself. Santa Claus (Kris Kringle, Father Christmas and St. Nicholas). Legendary heroes like Santa and Peter Pan deserve immortality, to live forever and ever without aging and growing old. Perfect for me. I love magic and fairy tales, always have and always will. I never gave up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to grow up, and forget about the precious things I knew, especially those from my childhood. I am like Peter Pan. Believe in magic and never grow up. My one and only wish is to keep the magic alive for all time. I also wish to be a fairy to stay strong, childlike, young, and beautiful forever and ever like the fairies in the forest of Burzee (The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus), Fantasian fair folks (Fantasia/Fantasia 2000), the blue fairy (Pinocchio), the fairy godmother (Cinderella), Tinker Bell (Peter Pan/Tinker Bell), and the celebrated fairy godmothers (Sleeping Beauty). Never grow up, yuck! Merry Christmas, everyone of Burzee, and a happy new year!
this is one of those specials you really dont see on TV for some reaosn these days, during the holiday season that is..i think the last time i even saw this, let alone ' remember ' watching it, was at least 11-12 plus years ago-
L. Frank Baum's lore was as vast and varied as space itself. Imagine if they pulled out all the cinematic stops and adapted this tale into a high fantasy epic!
Clement Moore it ain't, but I don't care; I thought this special was cool as hell when I first saw it. Probably because it was so different from the original, traditional stories of Santa Claus.
RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924-2014) and Jules Bass (1935-2022). Thank you for the classic holiday specials we continue to hold dear to our hearts even today. May your legacy live on through them. For ages and ages to come, til the last trumpet sounds.
RIP Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Humans can't achieve true immortality, but they can come close by being remembered for all the good they've done.
It's a shame the song itself, or the entire soundtrack, isn't available on CD or even digitally, because this song is great! I'd love to listen to it without the dialogue.
1:05 Rankin-Bass always added nice little personable touches to their puppets' actions; in this case, notice Tingler and his king acknowledging one another.
What a crazy little Christmas movie. Tolkien meets Santa Claus. It makes me wonder what a Rankin Bass stop-motion adaptation of Tolkien would have been like.
@@MaskedMan66 That's right! Those definitely have a charm to them. This "council of Elrond" type scene and the battle that happens later on definitely make me visualize some pretty epic 80's Rankin Bass Tolkien animated that will never exist.
This was always my mom's favorite Christmas Special, and honestly, I didn't have as much appreciation for it as a kid. Everything about it is so "Grand" and "Epic", like if The Lord of the Rings (or at least The Hobbit) was about Santa Claus. It's also much more serious in tone compared to Rankin-Bass's other stop-motion productions. It's incredible, and it's nice to know they at least went out with a bang, since this is their last stop-motion special.
People keep bringing up Tolkien's work, but this is based on a book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of Oz and its environs. Rankin-Bass already had its own versions of _The Hobbit_ and _The Return of the King._
@@MaskedMan66 Didn't Baum write the story as a Oz spinoff? I read somewhere before that the Forest of Burzee was actually part of Oz, occupying parts of Oz's western regions. And I think I remember one of the later books in the series had one or two of the fairy folk being present at some court meeting. I think it was one of the books where the Nome King was involved.
@@xalm8761 Burzee isn't in Oz, nor on the Continent of Imagination, as are Oz, Ev, Ix, Merryland, and many other fairylands. It's on our side of the magical barriers, but the Forest is inhabited by fairy folk, including Queen Zurline, whose name is similar to that of Queen Lurline, the mother of Ozma and the creator of Oz. I would imagine that they are of the same train. And to be sure, all of Baum's fairy stories are connected-- a "shared universe," as the concept's now known-- as evidenced by Santa Claus and many of his attendant creatures being present at Ozma's birthday party in "The Road to Oz." Santa was the guest of honor and sat at the other end of the long dinner table from Ozma herself. I'd have to look over the books to see about that court meeting you mentioned; it does sound familiar. :-)
This movie is 80s fantasy at its finest. It really is a shame that it's always been overshadowed by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without a Santa Claus.
@@MaskedMan66 Actually, in terms of overshadowing, the original book tends to be overshadowed by Baum's more famous Oz books. Baum wasn't just the "Oz guy," yet that seems to be how a lot of people remember him.
@@dylans.1741 Indeed; he wrote plays, screenplays, songs, articles, essays, and scores of books, many under pseudonyms (including female ones). But even during his lifetime, though he wrote other fantasy novels, it was Oz that the readers, especially the children, wanted.
@@dylans.1741 And to be sure, Baum's version of Santa Claus turned up in Oz in the book "The Road to Oz," where he was an honored guest at Princess Ozma's birthday party.
@@MaskedMan66 From what I can tell, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is set in the same universe as the Oz series. Baum was honestly way ahead of his time, having a shared universe like that long before the MCU popularized the idea
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