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STORY:
Last night, the mayor of Athens welcomed in the Christmas season by lighting a second Christmas tree in central Syntagma Square.

The first Christmas tree was erected some ten days earlier across from the parliament buildings, but was burnt down by demonstrators the next day.

Riots broke out in the city on December 6, when 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot by a police officer during a street confrontation. Since then there have been many more demonstrations, with some being more organised and peaceful.

Last night hundreds of people turned out to watch Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis kick off festivities with the tree lighting and a fireworks display. But there were also hundreds of demonstrators who took the opportunity to protest, singing and chanting as the festivities were underway.

“Wake up! Wake up!” they shouted as the lights were lit in the city’s center.

Kaklamanis told the crowd that the city would take good care of those who protested peacefully and sent a sharp message to those who held violent riots over the past ten days.

[Nikitas Kaklamanis, Athens Mayor]:
“Tonight we are here to ensure the young people of Greece who protest peacefully by day, without wearing hoods, that we will do all we can to make their dreams come true.”

Asked whether Christmas should be celebrated this year in their city, Athenians were divided.

[Stelios, Protester]:
“This year not. If all thought that Alex, the guy who was killed, or Grigori as we call him, was the child of all of us and was not just another kid from some family, but was a child of Athens, no one would celebrate, it’s true. Because if you think that it’s your child, then you wouldn’t celebrate Christmas.”

But another resident, Pantelis, was adamant that things would get better.

[Pantelis, Resident]:
“For sure this has ruined the mood and that won’t change. Our mood will get better, but it will always be on our mind.”

Christmas spirit in the city is low with shoppers afraid to venture out shopping due to the protests.

[Spectator]:
“We didn’t want to come down. We were really worried about the events, about the child, about what was going to happen. Now they lit the tree, it’s nice. I think things will calm down. At least I hope so.”

Scores of shops, cars and buildings were burned by the protesters in the riots, and besides the tree, Santa’s workshop was also torched. Municipal officials worked for days to clean up the square and install the new tree.

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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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So, all of a sudden I had a feeling I should
continue Stand in the Rain What do you say?
Let meknow if you’d rather A Million Lights cause if
you do I’ll continue that.

I GOT AN iMAC FOR CHRISTMAS! YAY!
So until I get windows xp so I can install it on bootcamp,
I’ll have to keep swapping computers if I wanna make videos.
So they might not be as often.
And I’m going to melbourne the day after news years for about a week.

I hope your christmas was fan fairy tastic and you have an awesome new year celebration ;D
x.

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