Read more about Jack Frost (Rankin-Bass) at: Wikipedia Official Site: Rankin-Bass Jack Frost was an animated television special, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and written by Romeo Muller; it premiered on NBC on December 13, 1979. This stop motion animated special tells the tale of Jack Frost, the winter sprite, and his adventures as a human. This special airs annually on the ABC Family cable network. The story is narrated by Pardon-Me-Pete the Groundhog (voiced by Buddy Hackett) who has a deal with Jack Frost to extend winter by six weeks, letting him sleep that much longer. Elisa is kidnapped by the evil Cossack King Kubla Kraus (voiced by Paul Frees), who has an army of robots called "Ka-Nights" as well as a menacing mechanical horse named Klangstomper. Kraus also possesses all the brick, gold, and timber that January Junction used to. He lives in a castle on Miserable Mountain with his sidekick, a ventriloquist's dummy (aptly named Dummy). After Elisa is rescued by a knight named Sir Raveneau, Kubla vows to destroy January Junction, and he imprisons Jack Snip, Snip, and Holly. Jack decides to become a sprite again in order to whip up the biggest snow storm ever seen, freezing Kraus in his castle. Snip and Holly change back to sprites as well. This tactic works until Groundhog Day comes. Jack Frost uses his shadow to scare Pete back to hibernation, and continues whipping up the storm. Finally, with only one hour left before the arrival of spring, Jack returns to human form in an attempt to meet Father Winter's conditions and win Elisa. He battles Kubla Kraus which ends with him falling out of his castle and blown very far by Father Winter. Jack then claims the gold, the mechanical horse, and the castle. He races off to ask Elisa for her hand in marriage, but during his absence she has fallen in love with Sir Raveneau, and he with her. Jack becomes a sprite again for good, and blows ice onto Elisa's wedding bouquet, turning it white. When asked about the change, she sheds a tear, saying "An old friend just kissed the bride." Snip calls out to Jack that winter wouldn't be the same without him. This film has been in the public domain since the mid 1990s and has been released on DVD before, but in the fall of 2008, Warner Bros. re-released it. Since they own all of the original Rankin/Bass film materials of this show (as part of their ownership of Rankin/Bass' post-1973 output), this is considered to be an official version and is the first time the film is displayed from a 35 mm print as opposed to the 16 mm the public domain versions have used.
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Jack Frost (Rankin-Bass)