Higher quality video and more information at http://www.mattsonlights.com Computer controlled and synchronized to music using Light-O-Rama hardware and software. Display consists of 48 channels.
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Animated Christmas light show. This was done at my home in Katy, Texas
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Animated Christmas light show. This was done at my home in Katy, Texas
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Dancing rope light figure dancing on a multicolor dance floor. Spectacular Christmas Lights done in an upbeat way. This video won MSNBC’s “The Most” contest in 2006.
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The Snow Man (1932) A cute little Eskimo and his animal friends build a snowman. But this is no friendly Frosty. The snowman attacks them and wreaks havoc until it’s destroyed by the Northern Lights.
Directed and Animated By Ted Eshbaugh
(February 5, 1906 – July 4, 1969)
NOTE: This controversial animated short was originally produced for Van Beuren Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures on July 05, 1932. It was then edited and reproduced by Film Laboratories of Canada, Invincible in 1933. You are watching the original and unedited 1932 version.
The story takes place in the frozen north. Our hero the Eskimo is bedding down for the winter. His pet, a seal that barks like a dog, beds down too. In the spring, everybody gets up. We find that the seal/dog has had pups! All is well and happy. All the cute little animals frolic and play in the snow, building a snowman. Suddenly, the mood changes. The snowman comes to life and starts attacking everybody! He eats a fish in a rather gruesome display, gains a big deep voice, and wrecks a church. It looks like there is no stopping him, but our hero the Eskimo knows what to do. Even the eaten fish has the final laugh.
In the early thirties, the success of James Whales Frankenstein made the film a point of reference. New films, even plain mysteries, were advertised or critiqued as being Frankenstein-like, or in the vein of Frankenstein. It even applied to cartoon shorts, as in this curious review by James Francis Crow in a Hollywood Citizen News entertainment column dated August 24, 1933:
Ted Eshbaugh, touted as the first worthy competitor to Walt Disney, has completed the first color cartoon of The Wizard of Oz series, and it will be released soon by a major studio, this column hears.
Another of Eshbaugh’s creations, called The Snow Man, in an Arctic locale, applies the Frankenstein theme to cartoon comics. The snow man builded by the little Eskimo hero and his animal pals comes to life and spreads havoc in the north country. But our hero runs to the North Pole Power Plant, turns on the Aurora Borealis, and melts Mr. Snow Man.
A fish the icy Frankenstein has swallowed is found swimming in the placid lake formed at his demise.
As far as being a worthy competitor, Ted Eshbaugh was indeed the first of Disneys would-be rivals to produce color cartoons, but he was never a true contender. He would produce or direct a handful of titles, the most significant being a 1933 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, with music by Carl Stalling. Promoted as the first of a series, the short was embroiled in legal problems and never reached theaters. The record is unclear, it was either a case of Walt Disney having an exclusive agreement with Technicolor, or Samuel Goldwyn owning the film rights to the property.
The Snow Man, produced in 1932, features a nasty North Pole bogeyman with scary claws and a literal stovepipe hat. The Frankenstein theme suggested by reporter Crow is incidental, the snowman being a creature assembled, brought to life and going on a rampage. A year later, the film might have been compared to King Kong instead. The 8-minute film survives today in black and white. Too bad, the aura borealis finale must have been stunning in color.
The theater mentioned in the article, Tallys Criterion, was called The first truly deluxe movie theatre in Los Angeles when it opened, as The Kinema, in 1917, boating 1800 seats and a spectacular organ. It was one of the first theaters to install the Vitaphone sound system in 1927 and Al Jolson himself traveled cross-country to attend a showing there of The Jazz Singer. The theater cycled through several names until it was damaged in a fire, abandoned, and demolished in 1941.
Other shorts directed by Ted Eshbaugh
Cap’n Cub (1945)
Japanese Lanterns (1935)
The Sunshine Makers (1935)
Pastry Town Wedding (1934)
Goofy Goat Antics (1933)
The Wizard of Oz (1933)
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The Snow Man (1932)
Warning: This ain’t Frosty The Snowman, kids!
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Our Christmas light display in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. There are 42,000 lights on 320 Light-O-Rama light channels. This particular song is Carol of the Bells by Mannheim Steamroller. The two mega trees are 25′ tall with about 10,000 lights per tree. The keyboards on the each side of the house are colored Plexiglas with 40-watt bulbs behind them. The light triangles under the eves are 400 mini lights. We also programmed the popular Wizards In Winter this year (just because it was fun to do!) At full load, the lights pull 207 amps but are only at full load for 4 seconds. It costs 65 cents/hour to run our entire show and the music is broadcast over FM station 89.3. We did a canned food drive this Christmas and received nearly 1,300 pounds of food. And we have the best neighbors because they put up with the thousands of cars that came down our dead-end road for over 5 weeks!
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lor 48 channels update…just got a camcorder and am learning how to use it . 40 views before update
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Animated Christmas Lights to Reflections of Earth. Located in League City / Dickinson, TX (south of Houston). Go to http://www.themic.us for directions to the display, more videos, or for questions on building your own display.
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LightWorks at LightTheNight.com brings you the self-erecting tree of
lights. No ladders or cranes are necessary to install this dazzling
display which can bee seen for miles. For your convenience, the display
comes in easy to assemble parts that fit in your elevator if a roof-top
mount is deired.. Once to the rooftop, the base is assembled, the pole
is erected, and the light strands are trollied to the top wth a
self-contained winch. Three guy cables are included to triangulate the
top of the pole. Lamps are screwed into the sockets as the trolly goes
to the top. Once the trolley is secured the light strands are attached
to the base with easy to use turn buckles and you are ready to plug it
in. What other 30′ tall display can give you this kind of impact with
this little effort? One day and you are done. To remove, simply lower
the trolley, roll up the light strands, and lower the pole. To
re-install, raise the pole, attach the lights to the trolley and raise
the trolley with lights attached. LightWorks at LightTheNight.com
manufacutures and installs trees and custom displays anywhere in the
continental US. Please visit us at LightTheNight.com or call today at
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2007 was our 2nd year doing an animated display. We had around 50,000 lights and 180 channels of LOR. This display was located in Pleasant Grove, Utah but had to be moved to Lindon, Utah because of the HOA.
Music: Carol of the Bells by Monique Danielle
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