Frosty the Snowman | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jules Bass, Jr. Arthur Rankin
Actors: Billy De Wolfe, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Vernon
Studio: Classic Media
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 7489
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 48
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: GEPDLVD80303D
UPC: 796019803038
EAN: 0796019803038
ASIN: B000R7G6JU
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 09/16/2008 Run time: 70 minutes
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 Brings back wonderful memories of childhood January 6, 2009
This is the same movie which used to always be shown on TV around xmas. It is a wonderful treat to be able to own this!
This Is MY Story! January 2, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I was growing up, my mother always told me that FROSTY THE SNOWMAN was my story. After all, the little girl who befriends Frosty and tries to help him is named Karen. (My sister, whose name is Cindy, got The Grinch Who Stole Christmas as her story...because of Little Cindy Lou Who.) This phenomenon explains why all of my Christmas decorations involve snowmen, and why my house looks like a winter wonderland this time of year.
These days, it is my three year old daughter who believes that the story of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN is about her Mommy. We sit together and watch this DVD repeatedly during the holidays. She is entranced, just like I was. She always says, "That's you, Mommy, with the yellow hair" and "Look, Mommy, you are crying because Frosty has melted." She asks for this movie on a daily basis.
This has always been my favorite children's Christmas classic, and it is now the favorite of my young daughter. She knows all the words to the Frosty song (even better that I do!), and just loves to sing along. The song itself is catchy, fun, and very memorable, the animation is typical of the time period and still looks good, and the story is one of giving and the Christmas spirit. Kids of all ages love this tale, because it is the children who believe in and who save Frosty, their beloved friend.
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN always puts me in the holiday spirit, and I love sharing my personal tradition with my wee one. Even as a child of Texas, she loves snow, snowmen, and snow angels. How like her mother she is!
My daughter loves this movie! December 14, 2008
My 2.5 year old adores this short film! We watch it together over the holidays and sing along with the Frosty song. I highly recommend it! It's a classic!
 Some parts of this film make me melt December 20, 2007
1 out of 38 found this review helpful
What teacher--and school district--would keep kids enrolled so close to the holidays? Didn't they want to take a vacation too! Why weren't the kids's parents protesting the apparent lack of a semester break? I'm sure that my parents would have yanked me out anyways. Even the little kids watching this film would notice such a large plotline gap. I've watched this since I was a kid and I still don't think we would have wanted to be enrolled in such a school.
Secondly, Karen decides to travel on the train with Frosty rather than letting him stowaway by himself when they cannot afford to purchase a ticket. She announces that taking the trip would be okay as long as she were home for dinner. Even a little kid can figure out that a train trip takes a long time--particularly to the North Pole, from a presumably American state as evidenced by the classroom flag. Karen is the leader of this group, but she's not very smart.
On the plus side, the story does show that Frosty initially has more emotional warmth in him than the human Professor Hinkle. Concerned when Karen is unable to handle the extreme cold, Frosty decides to detour off his trip to help her avoid getting sick from the low temperatures which he needs to stay alive. And Frosty later risks his own 'life' to further protect Karen's, a powerful lesson--if not inherently sociopolitical like the other Rankin-Bass holiday offerings.
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