The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🎄 It’s 1975, and a shepherd boy just lost his sight after staring directly at a lightning bolt. 🎙️ Mike Troxell joins us as we return to enchanted world of Rankin/Bass Christmas specials for an overlooked, underrated, and redundantly titled hidden gem about neither the first Christmas, nor the first Christmas snow. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: Vox’s Emily St. James ranks all the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials. A very brief history of the Christmas card. Was There Really Any Winter’s Snow at the Time of the Nativity in Bethlehem? Flash blindness is real. Arthur Rankin Jr. recalling how Irving Berlin really, REALLY didn’t want “White Christmas” in the special. This exact sound of a wolf howling (or, actually, a coyote) is heard over and over again. **** 📼 Commercials: Toys “R” Us Time of Year Christmas Commercial (1976) Christmas Creeps. **** “The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow” © 1975 Rankin/Bass Productions. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Find us at adventcalendar.house. #s9 #1970s #rankinbass

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