Film Summary CDXLIII (Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer)


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an 8 minute long animation that I decided to watch. Because I didn't have the mental capacity for a 1 hour and 50 minutes long German movie about the Prussian King 'Frederick the Great'.

This particular cartoon was from 1949. And like most people I had no idea that it existed. I just assumed that Rudolph was invented in the 1960s along with that claymation film.

So the story of this movie is exactly the same as the theme song that goes along with it. Rudolph is an oddball reindeer who's harassed by other reindeer because of his strange noes. At some point Santa Claus decides he needs the help of said reindeer so he can finally deliver all the Christmas presents due to the extremely foggy weather Corrine on Christmas Eve.

I kind of prefer the quickness of this film to the 1960s version. Not that I have anything against that animated movie. But we don't need a side story about an elf who wants to be a dentist. This one shows you exactly what you want to see. I mutant reindeer finally being accepted by his peers.

Accept in this one it's done in this strange self aggrandize where-in Rudolph is proclaimed by Santa Claus to be the number one reindeer inside Santa Claus's private mausoleum, where he most likely has gladiatori battles with all of his elves on the off seasons.

It sounded kind of strange that Santa Claus delivers presents not just of the human children but to the reindeer and bunny rabbits as well. I guess they have there own little houses with the little stockings and Santa Claus puts gifts inside those. Also Santa Claus seems to only put his gifts in stockings.
Which at this point in time we're literally just the kids socks.

It's got me wondering: ''Who was the bright genius who decided to Market 'Santa Claus themed saux' as stockings?''
Because that guy cornered the market on a non-existing gimmick.

The animation for the film is kind of cheap. There's a few shots where the Steel images of the characters looks okay but any time anyone has to move everything just kind of falls apart.

It's one of those weird cartoons with the animators don't really know what they're doing. So instead of having the characters move with any sort of realistic motion, they just move their entire body all the time as if they have some form of muscle spasm.
It makes everything look really disjointed which doesn't help when the limited with minor frames and jump cuts which they're not entirely able to hide.

If you've seen the 1960s Rudolph movie a hundred times I'd recommend skipping it this year and giving a look to this film. It's kind of cute for what it is and it's always nice to see an earlier adaptation to something that you didn't know existed.

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