Frosty the Snowman (TV program)
Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 animated Christmas television special based on the song Frosty the Snowman. The program, which first aired on December 7, 1969 on CBS where it still airs to this day, was produced for television by RankinBass Productions and featured the voices of comedians Jimmy Durante as the films narrator Durantes final performance in a film and Jackie Vernon as the titular character.
On Christmas Eve, the schoolteacher hires an inept magician named Professor Hinkle to perform magic for the class Christmas party and keep her students attention. Hinkle fails in both regards and throws his hat away in disgust, but it releases his white rabbit named Hocus Pocus who then wear the hat and hop around the classroom, taunting Hinkle and making the children laugh. As soon as the school day ends, the children rush outside to play and decide to build a snowman. When their snowman was completed with a corncob pipe, a red button nose, two lumps of coal as his eyes and a broomstick, the children wonder what name they should call him. After considering and rejecting names such as Harold, Bruce, Christopher Columbus and even Oatmeal, a young girl named Karen names the snowman Frosty. At that point, Hocus escapes from the school building still wearing the hat, with Hinkle chasing him. As Hinkle finally grabbed Hocus, the hat was knocked off and blown by the wind, allowing Karen to catch it and place it onto Frostys head. And then to the surprise of the children and Hinkle, the hats magic causes Frosty to come to life, saying his first words, Happy Birthday This delighted the children at first, but after seeing that the hat is actually magic, the agitated Hinkle takes it back after another wind blows it off Frostys head, making the snowman inanimate. When the children protest, he tells them that when they get older, they will learn that snowmen cant come alive. However, after he leaves, Hocus steals back the hat by switching it with a pine wreath on Hinkles head and returns it to the children, thus bringing Frosty to life again. The children are very happy with their friend, but the temperature of the schools thermometer soon rises, making Frosty know that he must leave for somewhere that is colder or else he will melt. Frosty explains that the only place he wont melt is the North Pole, and the children suggests that theyll take him to a downtown train station to
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