Suzy Snowflake (1951) Stop Motion Animation (With Original Song)

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Suzy Snowflake (1951) Song and Musical Stop Motion Animation Dance.
Also see ... Hardrock, Coco and Joe in "The Three Little Dwarfs":
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SUZY SNOWFLAKE (Song Lyrics):

Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow white gown
Tap, tap, tappin' at your window pane
To tell you she's in town
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Soon you will hear her say
"Come out ev'ryone and play with me
I haven't long to stay
If you want to make a snowman
I'll help you make one, two, three
If you wanna take a sleigh ride
The ride's on me."
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumblin' down
Bringing joy to every girl and boy
Suzy's come to town

"Suzy Snowflake" is a popular Christmas song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records, MJV-123. This cartoon-short is the historic Chicago Kids TV Christmas video, Suzy Snowflake, based upon the song was also made in 1951 by Centaur Productions where the stop-motion animation was created by Wah Ming Chang. It was shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago, along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe".

Stop-motion (stop-action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop-motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop-motion animation using clay is described as clay animation or clay-mation.

Stop-motion animation has a long history in film. Of the forms already mentioned, object animation is the oldest, then direct manipulation animation, followed (roughly) by sequential drawings on multiple pages, which quickly evolved into cel animation, with clay animation, pixilation, puppet animation, and time-lapse being developed concurrently next. The first instance of the stop-motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. In 1902, the film, Fun in a Bakery Shop used clay for a stop-motion "lightning sculpting" sequence. French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used it to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films, but never exploited the process for any of his other films. The Haunted Hotel (1907) is another stop-motion film by James Stuart Blackton, and was a resounding success when released. Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929), from Spain, released El Hotel eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, A Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptor's Nightmare, a film by Billy Bitzer. French animator Emil Cole impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, The Automatic Moving Company in 1910.

One of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which dazzled audiences in 1912. December 1916, brought the first of Willie Hopkin's 54 episodes of "Miracles in Mud" to the big screen. Also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop-motion. She would release her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet .

In the '60s and '70s, independent clay animator Eliot Noyes Jr. refined the technique of "free-form" clay animation with his Oscar-nominated 1965 film Clay or the Origin of Species and He Man and She Bar (1972). Noyes also used stop-motion to animate sand laying on glass for his musical animated film Sandman (1975). Sand-coated puppet animation was used in the Oscar-winning 1977 film The Sand Castle, produced by Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman.

SUZY SNOWFLAKE Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy! On December 28, 1953, Chicago area kids were introduced to the whimsical story of Suzy Snowflake "tap, tap, tappin'" on every windowpane, seen on Garfield Goose and Friends then on WBBM-TV. Like Hardrock, Coco and Joe, Suzy too was brought to life by the stop-motion animators of Centaur Productions. Norma Zimmer was Suzy's voice and the song was sung by The Norman Luboff Choir, a premier studio group who recorded with well-known artists, such as Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte.

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[MountainSouthpaw]

I remember watching this as a young boy and was recently trying to teach it to my granddaughter but had forgotten some of the words. Thanks!

[XmasFLIX]

@MountainSouthpaw One of my favs. I recently found the Rosemary Clooney version of the song "Suzy Snowflake". The link under the video "100XmasSongs" is literally 100 songs, being sold on Amazon, $5 for all 100. This song is one of them.  Merry Xmas! - XmasFLIX.com

[KroovyMonsoon]

That was beautiful ! Thank you for sharing such a delightful treasure !

[TheReneeTay]

Another delightful video...Thank you!

[hvnbndwarriorprinces]

I remember this when I was little in the early 50's. Haven't seen or heard it all these years but sang the words to my husband last week. It's not as cute as I remember it, but then I was a little kid. Thanks for posting it. Unbelievable that our old memories our out there and they're turning up here. Wow! Be Blessed!

[RareMusic42]

I heard this at the supermarket today. Thought that I look it up here.

[candisagree1]

This is really cute.

[Blacksun1942]

Wow, this is gorgeous. I remember the song from my childhood, but I never knew there was a real character and stop-motion animation associated...

[medowmuffins]

OMG I remember this when I was little, I was just facinated by it thanks for sharring who ever found and posted it..great memories, just loved it!!

[DimeraFan28]

this is so cool.

[DimeraFan28]

Wow, this is so beautiful, I remember seening this during a show about, Bozo, Gar, and Ray, and it was on the wgn network.

[DimeraFan28]

This is so cute, I remember seening this when the wgn was doing a documentary about, Bozo, Gar, and Ray. but This is so cute. I also remember humming to this song too.