For the Macy's 2010 Believe campaign, an animated character based on Virginia was part of and appeared in their 2010 holiday commercials, inviting children to stores to write " Yes Virginia Santa Letters ," and at the Macy's department store on 34th and Broadway in Manhattan as the theme for its 2010 holiday windows.

Aside from the 1950 marionette special The Spirit of Christmas, it was the first animated holiday program ever produced specifically for television, originally airing in December 1962, and the only one until the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was first shown in December 1964.

The official Star Wars site states that the holiday special " delivered mixed results ," and states that the highlight of the special was the Boba Fett animated segment.

He also commissioned renowned architect Richard Neutra to design the iconic desert Kaufmann House ( 1946 ) in Palm Springs, California. Kaufmann's started several holiday traditions that were carried on after it was taken over such as animated Christmas windows and Santa Land.

* Days of Liberty ( WABC-New York ), animated holiday special

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 direct-to-video animated holiday film produced by The Walt Disney Company.

One of the mainstays of the business was holiday themed animated specials for airing on American television.

Mad Love was written by Paul Dini and illustrated by Bruce Timm, while the holiday special was written and illustrated by a number of creative people who had worked on the animated series, including Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami, Dan Riba, and Kevin Altieri.

It was the first ever animated Christmas special made for television and is considered to be a holiday classic of the 1960s, ranking alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.

Santa and the Three Bears is a 1970 animated featurette, which aired on television regularly during the holiday season.

* In December 2005, the George Lopez sitcom featured an animated segment in which Lopez sees a stop-motion version of himself on television in a Rudolph-style special mirroring the theme of the holiday episode.

Another frequent target is the classic 1960s " Animagic " stop motion animated holiday specials of Rankin / Bass.

* The fictional holiday celebrated in the animated TV show Futurama.

Among other career highlights, Yarbrough provided vocals for the Rankin / Bass animated versions of The Hobbit ( 1977 ) singing songs such as The Greatest Adventure, The Road Goes Ever On as well as The Return of the King ( 1980 ) singing " Frodo of the Nine Fingers " in addition to singing the title song in the 1966 holiday classic, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't.

* Jack O ' Lantern, a villain character in Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween, a holiday episode of the animated series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Jones was the creative consultant and character designer for two Raggedy Ann animated specials and the first Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special " A Chipmunk Christmas ".

In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

In 1980, Toho released the first of a series of annual feature length animated films based on the lengthly special volumes published annually.

The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal, a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

He was also the voice of the main character Toby the Teapot in the animated special The Real Story of I'm a Little Teapot ( 1990 ).

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

In 2009, Macy's and Macy's ad agency JWT produced Yes, Virginia, a CGI animated Christmas special, after pitching and selling the idea to CBS.

* December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC.

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia ( in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect ).

Unlike previous episodes in the series, the anniversary special was animated using Adobe Flash at Cartoon Network Studios.

Ray Harryhausen extended the art of stop-motion animation with his special techniques of compositing to create spectacular fantasy adventures such as Jason and the Argonauts ( whose climax, a sword battle with seven animated skeletons, is considered a landmark in special effects ).

Most recently, the " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " number and some of the animated portion of the movie were issued on the Alice in Wonderland 2-DVD Special Edition set, although in that instance this was originally incorporated as part of a 1950 Walt Disney TV special included on the DVD which promoted the then-forthcoming Alice in Wonderland film.

In 2000, he won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman in the animated Christmas television special Olive, the Other Reindeer.

C-3PO appears as the pilot for the Starspeeder 1000, in the attraction's successor, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue and a central character in the animated special Star Wars: The Padawan Menace.

He voiced the mailman narrator in 1970's classic animated film Santa Claus Is Comin ' to Town ( TV special ).

* Faeries ( Brian Froud animated special ) Part one of three, YouTube

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

In 1966 an animated special from the Hanna-Barbera studios aired called The New Alice in Wonderland ( or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Gyro made his first animated appearance on the Sport Goofy Soccermania television special with only one line of dialogue, voiced by Will Ryan: " Scrooge parting with a million dollars?

It was the first original animated special created for Nickelodeon.

* Red Skull will appear in the summer 2013 animated special Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel.

* 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit ( a prototype of Bugs Bunny ).

Prince wrote and performed a song for the hit 2006 animated film Happy Feet.

The outstanding success of the animated film, Happy Feet, has further reinforced the popular appeal National Tap Dance Day in the United States, now celebrated May 25, was signed into law by President George Bush on November 7, 1989.

* In the episode " Harry Canary " in the animated series Dumb and Dumber, it was named " The Earvin Mulligan Show " as Lloyd's family were performing in the late 60s as " The Happy Dunne Family ".

Some popular Flash animated cartoons include Joe Cartoons, Weebl and Bob, Happy Tree Friends, Homestar Runner, the Brackenwood Series, Making Fiends and Salad Fingers.

* McDonald's Happy Meal figures ( set of 8, based on characters from the animated series, 2007 ).

Wood starred in the film Day Zero ( 2007 ) and provided the voice of the main character in the award-winning animated musical films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.

Happy Days, itself a spin-off from Love, American Style, spun off five different series, not including two animated spin-offs: Laverne & Shirley, Blansky's Beauties, Mork & Mindy, Out of the Blue, and Joanie Loves Chachi.

1 album track " Jump ' N ' Move " featuring Jamal-ski was featured on the soundtrack for the 2006 computer animated feature film Happy Feet and the in-game soundtrack for 2004's NBA Live 2005 and 2009's NBA 2k10.

Examples include Happy Hooligan ( starring J. Stuart Blackton as the title character ), Buster Brown, and Mutt and Jeff ( later to become a successful animated series ).

He wrote the music for a musical production of Happy Days that debuted in 2007 and also made a cameo appearance as an animated version of himself singing " Breathe in the Sunshine " in the hit animated TV series Dexter's Laboratory.

Out of the three nominees for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, two of the nominees ( Monster House and the winner Happy Feet ) used motion capture, and only Disney · Pixar's Cars was animated without motion capture.

The video includes linking sequences which are animated to the accompaniment of instrumental sections from " The Happy One ", an otherwise unreleased track from the Technique sessions.

In 2008 and 2009, Easton performed Perry the Teenage Girl, When Will He Call Me ?, and Happy Evil Love Song for the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb.

* Happy Hooligan ( 1916-1919 ): directed by Gregory La Cava ; animated by Frank Moser, Bill Nolan, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King, Isadore Klein, Grim Natwick ; screenwritten by Louis De Lorme

Warner's later animated releases, such as The Polar Express and Happy Feet, along with Fox's Ice Age series and The Simpsons Movie fared better.

*" Eye Candy ", an episode of the animated series Happy Tree Friends

Creepschool is a Swedish, French and Canadian animated series by Alphanim, Cookie Jar Entertainment, Happy Life and France 3 about four kids who find themselves at a spooky boarding school.

Paramount declined to be involved in that series, but later teamed up with Hanna-Barbera to produce several other animated spin-offs of the Happy Days franchise.

The 22nd episode of the animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures is called " Don't Worry, Be Happy ".

Since it was a simple, low budget film, in six months fifty minutes had been animated on " Happy Valley ".

Walt felt since the animation of Bongo and The Legend of Happy Valley ( which had been renamed Mickey and the Beanstalk ) was not as sophisticated enough to be a standard Disney animated feature film, the artists then decided that they would be more convenient as part of a package film.