# Lost animated specials

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-animated-specials/782635/51 "2017-03-22T23:11:14Z")

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> [@OsageOrange](#):
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> If you only want drawn animation, no soap for me…but if stop-motion animation a la Rankin-Bass is okay, then I miss “Rudolph’ Shiny New Year” and “Nestor, The Long-eared Christmas Donkey.”

Don’t they still show the Rudolph new year special on CBS? I remember seeing it again just a couple of years ago. Could have been a download, I suppose. The donkey one I had forgotten even existed.  
There is short film called “Snowman in July” that I used to see occasionally on a local morning kid’s show. Haven’t seen that one in decades until I looked it up on Youtube. Never suspected that it was actually a [German film](http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html) made deep inside of WWII. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-EJfGo4EM) the version I remembered, and [here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7_t9HPBPA) the original German.

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