Day: December 24, 2009

One of the first animated Christmas TV specials in the sixties was “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol,” from 1962. It hasn’t been broadcast in ages, so it isn’t as well known as perennial favorites Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and the Grinch. I don’t have Magoo’s Christmas on video, and I’m wondering how it holds up today. So I’ll embed it here, thanks to YouTube user eboWaxx.

Cartoon Brew has this brand-new take on an old Christmas song by Stan Freberg, animated by Doug Compton.

(Does anybody have real silverware that’s worth stealing these days?)

As always, Mark Evanier is on top of the error department:

12/24/09 12:31am

Mark Evanier says:

Hey, tell Doug he got the credits wrong. He says the kid is Daws Butler and the burglar is Stan Freberg.

Nope. They’re both Freberg.

And being a stickler myself, I’ve corrected the video itself by properly cropping it and getting the aspect ratio right.

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