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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

1964 · Film · 52 min

Directed by Larry Roemer

AnimationFamilyAdventureFantasy

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudolph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

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  1. NeutraldefrostAug 21, 2025

    There are many metrics that can be sampled, many challenges to normalization.

    eg: https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=2019

    is a listing of 2019 movie torrents ranked by seeds (number of clients holding full copies of a torrent version).

    A normalization challenge is to group torrent variations (1080p rips and 720p rips and WEB-DL's and BluRay and etc.) and tally up and rank interest in various films over time.

    Clearly Ne Zha (2019), a Chinese Animation, Fantasy, Adventure movie was a global pirate star of that year .. should it be "normalized" by population of country of origin to smooth out the home team having a billion+ in population "bias" ?

    One advantage of ranking films by year and pirate copies is it provides a pragmatic measure of "staying power"

    https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=1964

    My Fair Lady, Dr Strangelove, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Mary Poppins, A Fistful of Dollars, and Goldfinger are still being hoarded 60 years after their release.

    * https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615453

    * https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ne_zha

  2. NeutralbinarynateDec 13, 2022

    Just to clarify: this is about the maker of the stop motion film about Rudolph. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally created in 1939 as a book for the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward department store:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer

  3. PositiveConsultant32452Dec 29, 2021

    I don't understand why the major streaming services don't have the good Christmas movies. They all have these new "made for TV" quality awful movies they push really hard.

    It's A Wonderful Life

    A Christmas Carol

    Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (old animated version)

    How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old animated version)

    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

    Home Alone

    Miracle On 34th Street

    Elf

    White Christmas

    There's tons of GREAT Christmas movies. On any given Christmas season Netflix might have 1-2 of the greats. Same for Amazon Prime.

    I'm confused because it seems like an easy win for these streaming services. Is licensing them really so expensive?