THE LIFE & ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS & NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY

Description: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS & NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY - (2009) BRAND NEW DVD - ANIMATED - HOLIDAY - FAMILY - ADVENTURE - DRAMA TWO GREAT FEATURES FROM RANKIN & BASS - A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR HOLIDAY COLLECTION! - TWO FEATURES THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL~ BOTH FEATURES TRADITIONAL STOP ACTION MOTION WE ENJOY FROM RANKIN AND BASS MOVIES~ Product Description The Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum penned the story that inspired The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. A babe born in the woods near the forest of Burzee is named Claus. As Claus grows up, the gods send him to the land of mortals to spread joy and happiness where there is none. Claus carves a small wooden cat for an orphan and decides that all children rich or poor should receive toys for Christmas. A long time ago the little donkey Nestor lives in a country stable. Mocked for his ears, Nestor and his mother are cast out of the stable. In the snowy cold, Nestor's mother sacrifices herself to protect her child. In the spring a cherub arrives to guide Nestor so he may save another as his mother saved him. Two travelers choose him for a trip to Bethlehem and Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey fulfills his destiny. STORYLINE - THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS - (1985) - 49 MINUTES STOP MOTION ANIMATED FEATURE NOT THE CARTOON VERSION A bizarre, pagan take on the Santa Claus legend, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, which is based on a story by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), was produced and directed by Rankin and Bass, the reigning kings of the Christmas special (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), using their brand of puppet animation. In the forest of Burzee, the immortals gather to discuss the fate of Santa Claus. Found when he was an abandoned baby by the Great Ak (a wizard with big wooden horns on his head), the boy was named Claus because that means "little one" in the language of the forest. Raised by immortals and knowing nothing but peace and harmony, the adolescent Claus is taken on a tour of the mortal world by the Great Ak, and he discovers the world is rife with misery and injustice. This is when he decides he will dedicate his life to making kids happy, and he learns the best way to do this is to give them toys. After years of service, the immortals must decide whether or not to give him eternal life. Indeed, this is a very strange Christmas tale. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1985 Christmas stop motion animated television special. It was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, based on the 1902 children's book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, the writer of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The special first aired December 17, 1985 on CBS in the United States. This was Rankin/Bass's final "Animagic" stop motion production with later releases including traditional animation. Notably, this special was an adaptation of a novel and is not connected to the continuity created by previous Rankin/Bass Productions. Plot Long ago in the Forest of Burzee, a council meeting is held where the Great Ak tells the story of Santa Claus to the leaders of the Immortals, hoping to persuade them to grant Claus immortality. About 60 years earlier, the Great Ak finds an abandoned baby in the snowy woods on the border of the Forest. He gives it to the lioness Shiegra to raise. However, after hearing about the discovery of the infant, Necile, a Wood Nymph, steals him from Shiegra and goes to the Great Ak, begging him to let her raise the child. After initial concern that a human was brought into the Forest which is against the law, the Great Ak allows Necile to raise the child while Shiegra stays to protect them. Necile names the child "Claus". When Claus has grown to be a young man, the Great Ak takes him to see the mortal world and its cruelty and suffering. Claus learns that he must live there and make it better. He leaves the Forest and lives in a workshop in the Laughing Valley of Hohaho with Shiegra and Tingler, a Sound Imp. As he gets older, he works to bring happiness to children in a nearby village. He eventually makes toys (the first being a wooden black cat modeled after the kitten Blinky that Necile sent to them, which he gives to the orphan boy Weekum). He is occasionally assisted by a group of Ryls, Knooks, and Wood Nymphs from the Forest. Meanwhile, evil creatures called the Awgwas (who influence children to do bad things and who are led by King Awgwa) are not happy with Claus's efforts to bring happiness to children, so they attempt to stop Claus from making and delivering toys. At first, they send a warning to Claus, telling him to stop or they would come for him. After Claus ignores the warning, the Awgwas kidnap him, but he calls for aid from the Knooks, who help him escape. As he and his friends make attempts to deliver toys to the village, the Awgwas repeatedly ambush them and steal the toys. Claus tries to go alone by night, but he is again ambushed. The Great Ak has had enough of this and summons King Awgwa and his followers to come and face him. King Awgwa defies the Great Ak's demand that he stop interfering with Claus's efforts and declares war on the Immortals. Later, the Great Ak and some other Immortals face off against the Awgwas and some monstrous friends that they brought. The monsters attack the Immortals, but the Immortals defeat them. The Immortals then charge toward the Awgwas, who flee in fear. Afterwards, the Great Ak informs Claus that he can resume his toy delivering without fear of interference, because the Awgwas "have perished". Claus and his friends prepare a sleigh to deliver toys to the village, but it is too heavy for them to pull. Peter Knook comes up with the idea of hitching reindeer from the Forest to the sleigh in order to pull it. Claus travels across the valley in his sleigh along with Tingler and Shiegra. The sleigh makes multiple large leaps which Tingler says is like flying. Claus claims that he now knows why the valley is named the way it is, as he laughs in a "ho ho ho" manner. When he makes his first stop, he finds that the door of the house is locked since it is night, so he enters through the chimney. Once inside, he finds that the children's stockings were hung by the fireplace to dry, so he decides to put small toys in them while placing larger toys elsewhere. After Claus leaves and the family wakes up, they refer to him as "Saint Claus" or "Santa Claus". Once Claus returns, Peter Knook informs him that he can only use the reindeer once a year on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is only ten days away, so he will not have time to make enough toys. In order for Claus to have enough gifts, Peter Knook finds and retrieves the toys stolen by the Awgwas. Claus sets out on his first of many Christmas Eve sleigh rides. As Claus nears the end of his life, he suggests that his friends remember him by decorating a tree every year. After hearing about Claus's life and good deeds, the council unanimously votes to give him the Mantle of Immortality. Having become known as "Santa Claus", he delivers gifts to children every Christmas Eve. Trivia - The last Animagic special produced by Rankin-Bass. NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY - (1977) - 23 MINUTES Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is a wondrous story of Christ's birth told by an unlikely source: Nestor, a gentle donkey with incredibly long ears and a first-hand knowledge of life in a stable. This simple tale, which takes place in the days of the Roman Empire, is about a humble couple about to take a long journey to Bethlehem and a small, insignificant donkey who is destined to help them along. By all outward appearances, Nestor is undeserving of such a privilege. Stable animals tease him incessantly for his long appendages until, finally, he is cast out of the barn into the winter cold. Snow and ice bring about even greater calamity for Nestor until he receives a dose of divine goodness. Nestor meets Tilly, a heavenly cherub (voiced by Brenda Vaccaro) who imparts guidance to the despairing burro and tells him that soon he would be chosen to participate in a miracle involving a star and a baby, a lowly stable and some travelers named Mary and Joseph. Short and sweet, this stop-motion Christmas gem from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass is narrated by Roger Miller. Get out the hanky for an understated holiday classic that will appeal to families of all ages. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is a 1977 Japanese-American Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It premiered on ABC on December 3, 1977. The story is based on the 1975 song of the same name, written by Gene Autry, Don Pfrimmer and Dave Burgess. Plot Santa Claus' pet donkey, Spieltoe, narrates the story of a small donkey named Nestor with abnormally long ears, who lived in the days of the Roman Empire. Every animal in the stable ridicules Nestor because of his large ears. This seemingly comes to a halt during the celebration of winter solstice; however, when the cruel stable owner Olaf refused to feed Nestor out of him being a burden on the farm, all the animals feeling sympathetic and guilty for the way Nestor is being treated apologize for their misjudgment and making him feel bad about himself. Nestor's mother then gives Nestor some old socks from Olaf's wife to cover up his ears. That night, soldiers arrive from the Roman Empire in need of young donkeys. After removing the socks from Nestor’s ears, the soldiers think that Olaf, was trying to trick them. Olaf offers to give them Nestor for free, but the soldiers instead take all of the other donkeys for free but they leave Nestor. Enraged for not receiving money for his donkeys, Olaf throws Nestor out into a blizzard while not caring if he freezes and tells him to never return, Nestor's mother breaks out of her stall out of anger and runs out to search for him. After finding Nestor in the snow, his mother takes him to a small resting area where she shields him from the cold. The next morning, Nestor tearfully mourns his mother's death-(with her body covered in a pile of snow), as she had froze to death and sacrificed her life to protect him. Later, Nestor meets a cherub named Tilly. She says they need to travel to Bethlehem, telling him "Your ears can do wondrous things no other ears can do. The sounds they hear will guide you on a path that's straight and true, and then you will save another, as your mother once saved you." They travel across the desert sands for many months, and when they finally get to the outskirts of Bethlehem, Tilly tells Nestor to wait and she flies back up to Heaven. Even though he finds a rundown old stable, nobody buys him. Mary and Joseph are expecting Jesus, they take Nestor because of his "gentle eyes", but are caught in a sandstorm. In the midst of the storm, Nestor hears Tilly's voice, but recognizes it as his mother's, and she tells him to follow the voices of the angels. Nestor guides Mary and Joseph through the storm, while wrapping Mary in his ears to keep her warm, soon arriving at Bethlehem. They find the stable where Mary subsequently gives birth to baby Jesus, Nestor finds his way back to his home stable where he is hailed as hero by Olaf and the other animals. Trivia - Features multiple non-speaking cameos from characters from other Rankin-Bass specials, including Jingle, Jangle, and Mrs. Claus from The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974), the Three Wise Men from The Little Drummer Boy (1968), and Rudolph from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and other productions.Product details Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1 MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated) Director ‏ : ‎ Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Media Format ‏ : ‎ Full Screen, NTSC Release date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2009 Actors ‏ : ‎ Earl Hammond, Earle Hyman, Larry Kenney, Roger Miller, Brenda Vacarro Language ‏ : ‎ English Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Bros. Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LOOK AT MY LISTING ~ PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER ITEMS.SHIPPING WILL BE MEDIA MAIL SO PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO RECEIVE. THE "ESTIMATED" ARRIVAL TIMES ARE SOMETIMES TAKING LONGER THAN EXPECTED. 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Video Format: NTSC

Music Artist: Bernard Hoffer, Maury Laws

Case Type: DVD

Rating: NR

Director: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Sub-Genre: Christmas, Creatures/Monsters, Religious, Holiday-Christmas (Animation/Anime), christmas special, santa claus, wood nymph, evil creature, dragon, immortality, puppet animation, based on book, nativity story, journey, angel, cherub, stop motion animation

Franchise: RANKIN & BASS

Studio: Warner Archives

Edition: Unrated Edition

Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Type: MOVIE: 2 HOLIDAY CLASSICS FROM RANKIN & BASS

Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Producer: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

Release Year: 2009

Actor: Earl Hammond, Earle Hyman, Bob McFadden, Alfred Drake, Roger Miller, Brenda Vaccaro, Paul Frees, Don Messick

Features: Full Screen

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Children's & Family, Classical, Drama, Fantasy, Music & Concerts, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Traditional, Family, christmas special, puppet animation

Run Time: 72 MINUTES

Season: N/A

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Movie/TV Title: Life & Adventures Of Santa Claus / Nestor Long-eared Donkey