Jack Frost

For a start, I loved all the rich amber tones in the woodland backgrounds, and even more so later on with the the frozen scenery, all exceedingly beautiful to look at. Also the music was very nice and kept things moving at a good pace. The family of bears that is featured look a lot like the ones from the 1935 Iwerks short "The Three Bears." The momma bear sounds like a black women did the voicing. She may give Billy-Bear a spankin', but it probably hurts her more than it does him! For some strange reason a really crummy-looking picture that hangs above the little bear's bed made me laugh! I don't get the strange moment where there's an apparition hovering saw cutting a log above the sleeping bear parents... Maybe a visual pun on the saying "slept like a log"? The only thing I didn't like too much was the annoying little song the bear kid seemed to sing about every two minutes, I think it sounds a bit too childish and brings down the tone somewhat. I liked the slightly creepy character of the trickster sprite Jack Frost, who deems to teach young bratty-bear a lesson the hard way about respecting the cold. This short boasts several very impressive and spooky sight gags, like a hopping quartet of pumpkins whose collective "Whooo!" sound is genuinely eerie to listen to! And then there is my absolute favourite part of the whole short, an awesome scatting scarecrow whose wild movements and bluesy freewheeling sounds still sound extremely catchy and cool today! That scene felt to me very similar to the trio of Betty Boop Fleisher shorts to feature a dancing rotoscoped Cab Calloway! I loved the design and animation of the cackling wicked Old Man Winter who was quite scary as a monster once a vintage animation could only be. During the chase through the icy woods I love the snow-covered objects in the background that look very much like human figures frozen in agonised poses. Quite a dark and Gothic touch, I thought. I think Jack Frost was Old Man Winter, their faces and noses looked alike, and Jack's enigmatic wink to the audience at the "Finis" confirmed it for me. What a great little peril in winter wonderland animation this is, it's well worth anyone's time, and makes for an especially pleasant watch come Christmas time. Overall quite a charming rare old vintage show with an edge! X

Just watched this Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoon on YouTube. It concerns a kid bear who defies his parents and decides to go out during Winter because of his big fur. The title character gently warns him but he keeps singing of how he'll survive because of his skin. Being from the '30s, this short shouldn't surprise when some inanimate objects come to life like some pumpkins or a scarecrow who in this case channels Cab Calloway! There are some touches of humor but this seems mostly to teach kids in the audience a lesson about staying inside when a snow storm comes. That's okay in this instance so on that note, I recommend Jack Frost.

Ub Iwerks was a technical genius, but often plots and story were afterthoughts. Exceptionally visual cartoons not needing much plotting work splendidly, while those needing strong characterization, story or plot fare less well as a rule.

This one is an exception to that. Visually excellent and technically superb, this is also engaging and has fascinating characters and a good plot. Iwerks was creative in his own area of expertise and one of the reasons that Iwerks and Walt Disney worked so well together was that their strengths were complementary to one another. This is Iwerks Studios near their best. Absolutely beautiful short, it's good to see this in print. Well worth getting. Recommended.

A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself.

This is an enjoyable animated short. I have a problem with the fact that it is "SOLD" in a DVD collection of "Christmas Animated Shorts". this is not a Christmas short. It takes place in Winter. There is no "Santa" or even a "Christmas Tree". However it is an enjoyable thing to watch.

This Animated Feature has some very impressive animation (For it's time).

It is available;e for free on many streaming sights.

. . . by leading seminarian End Times Instructors as an actual horseman of the Apocalypse. JACK FROST, aka the onset of Winter, is so fearsome that some quailing traditions substituted Famine for Frost so that the kids could sleep at night. However, on six of the Globe's seven continents more people freeze to death than expire from starvation in a given year. Furthermore, a consensus of pain experts rank a frigid demise a fate worse than buying the farm with an empty tummy. As their capillaries explode one by one, many victims turning into literal pop-sickles have been heard to bargain that they'd swear off food for a year for one mug of hot chocolate. JACK FROST does NOT give this scourge of glacial glazing his just desserts.