MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT : MY NFT TRADING CARD IS HERE!

                                                          MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

          My official NFT Limited Edition Trading Card is here! If you were looking for the perfect Christmas gift this is it! Unlike other Trading Card collections, there is only one single card design available so you know exactly what you're getting when you buy it! And the price is unbeatable! Only .99 cents each! At this price, even my late father, who was a real cheapskate, would have jumped into the deal!  Furthermore, you can even buy as many as you like and there's not even a remote chance these will be sold out because I can make as many as I want! Don't miss this excellent opportunity to own a great NFT which will never increase its resale value and will probably never be offered on eBay or any other collectors' page.  

                               Only .99 cents, folks! (Incidentally, NFT means Not For Trading) 

A VERY SENIOR CHRISTMAS

XMAS CARTOONS AND SELECTED SHORTS.

 Christmas is the perfect time to watch these cartoons which are not readily available on TV or on the main streaming services but can be found navigating the internet, principally on YouTube and Vimeo. I remember watching all of these when I was very young and television was just gaining momentum, (mid-50s, early 60s). Needless to say, it was a veritable nostalgia trip when I found them after all those years.

CHRISTMAS NIGHT (1933) starring Oscar E. Soglow's The Little King.

Ub Iwerks' THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER  (1934)

THE SHANTY WHERE SANTA CLAUS LIVES (1933)  

WB Merrie Melodies Directed by Rudolph Ising

 

SANTA'S WORKSHOP (1932) -  A Walt Disney Silly Symphony

GIFT WRAPPED (1952) WB Looney Tunes -  Directed by Friz Freleng

TOY TINKERS (1949) Walt Disney

PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE (1952) Walt Disney

And these are my selected shorts, which I watch whether it's Christmas or not:

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in BIG BUSINESS (1929) 

Directed by James W. Horne and Leo McCarey

THE FIXER-UPPERS (1934) Directed by Charles Rogers

"Jingle bells, jingle bells

coming through the rye.

I wish you a merry Christmas

even as you and I"

And without further ado, I bid you farewell and a Merry Christmas to you!

Statler and Waldorf Advice for the Holidays

The Holiday Season is upon us now, so I think it is essential to post this piece of sound advice: 

THOSE GREAT CHRISTMAS TV SPECIALS!

I don't really know which was the very first Christmas TV special but, as far as I can remember, the first one I saw was "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol".     Ever since then, there have been hundreds of them through the years, but only a few have become classics and of those, I have just a chosen few which I never tire of watching during the holidays . 

These are my favorite Christmas TV Specials, in chronological order: 

MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (1962)

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964)

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (1965)

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966)

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN  (1969)

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN (1970)

A PINK CHRISTMAS (1978) 

 

BUGS BUNNY'S LOONEY CHRISTMAS TALES (1979)

MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL  (1983)

 Other Christmas favorite viewing treats are the hundreds of Yuletide cartoons and shorts that are featured on every TV channel, streaming service and internet pages and which are easily accessed today by anyone.

I will list a few of these in one of my next blog entries.