Apple Wins Foster The Snowman: auction $1.6M Against $3M Holiday movie Jono Matt & 'The Studio' EP Peter Huyck ...

and two years later How the Grinch Stole Christmas arrived on TV from legendary animator Chuck Jones. Rankin and Bass returned to the Christmas special genre in 1969 to produce Frosty the Snowman ...

“Pitching 12 studio execs a project shortly after launching a TV show where the heroes are studio ... but this one has the cutest little snowman, who quickly grows in size.