Warmest wishes from the Preservation Maryland staff. Today, we’re digging in the archives to share a particularly festive PreserveCast interview with a historian with a very specific focus: Rankin/Bass productions, the company behind some of America’s most beloved stop-action holiday films.
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but do you recall Rankin/Bass? Today’s guest, Rick Goldschmidt does. He’s a historian of Rankin/Bass Productions – the creative team that created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year without a Christmas, and dozens upon dozens more. Preserving the legacy of those films and the actual props has been a lifelong passion for Rick and on this week’s PreserveCast we’ll head back to the 1960s to talk TV preservation and memory with an authority on the subject.