Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special - by Darrell Van Citters (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special is an in-depth examination of the highly unlikely teaming of Mr. Magoo, Charles Dickens and Broadway songwriters Jule Styne and Bob Merrill.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In the winter of 1962, a time of three gargantuan broadcast networks and a power-wielding block of national advertisers, a relatively tiny ornament called Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol </em>would herald a family holiday TV tradition that has all but slipped into obscurity in the wake of the numerous Christmas specials that it inspired. </p><p> Now animation director Darrell Van Citters, in a meticulously researched and delightfully engaging story-told with dozens of production art images and rarely seen photographs-has captured that golden era of TV animation in this richly illustrated book. It's a detailed retelling-in the voices of many of the artists who created it-of the painstaking and often frustrating efforts to translate Charles Dickens' timeless holiday tale into a Broadway-style musical for the small screen-the first ever of its kind. </p><p> It took an amazing, quirky confluence of unlikely events to bring Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol</em> to life, the first (and one of the most beloved) of all animated television Christmas specials. Marketing whiz Henry Saperstein's purchase and revival of the once innovative but foundering UPA studios; visionary UPA producer Lee Orgel's lightning flash of an idea to cast the comical character Mr. Magoo in a serious role as Scrooge; Orgel's enlistment of veteran director Abe Levitow (simultaneously directing the much higher profile feature Gay Purr-ee</em>); and the hiring of Broadway composers Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, whose struggles to get Funny Girl</em> into production left them time to write songs for an unlikely (and very nearsighted) Scrooge. </p><p> This affectionate, often suspenseful narrative in words and images is a must-have for fans of the special as well as animation and Broadway aficionados. Relive an era of pioneering TV programming, the birth of long-form animated storytelling on television, and rediscover this gem of a Christmas classic that set the stage for all that followed it-welcome to the story of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol</em>!</p>
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