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A new arts program in downtown Simcoe will appeal to young people seeking to express themselves creatively.

Television is a fairly new medium in the 1960s. and one of the first animated christmas specials was "mr. magoo's christmas carol." >> a merry christmas to everybody. >> as a child, you were waiting for the announcement in the tv guide of when frosty and all of those shows were going to come on. >> "charlie brown christmas" was a tradition. it brought the whole family together. >> when you see "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer," that means, bang, it's christmas. >> rudolph. >> rankin/bass used the stop-motion so brilliantly. there's something that draws you into it. but also, those are just grea...

>> santa! oh, my god! santa? here? i know him. >> he found the edge in a very innocent character and, to me, that's what's so fun about it. >> i know him. >> the movies i grew up with, like "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer," that, to me, seemed like a hook. >> bye-bye. >> let's treat this movie like it's a guy who grew up in a 1960s christmas special. >> hermey! >> and it was also an opportunity to explore visual effects with forced perspective -- >> there's room for everyone on the nice list. >> and stop motion, all very old techniques. >> this might be the golden opportunity to find out who y...

Red-nosed reindeer" was really ahead of its time. >> frosty the snowman. >> "frosty the snowman." i love it. i'd watch that right now. get it going. i want to see it. >> before i melt away. >> all the things that happen in the song happen to frosty. and then it has that christmas moment at the end. he's able to come back to life. it's like a resurrection of frosty. it's just this idea of having faith that someone that you care about is still going to be able to be there for you. >> "nightmare before christmas." for my son, that is a traditional christmas film. i love that tim burton is part of...

>> hermey! >> and it was also an opportunity to explore visual effects with forced perspective -- >> there's room for everyone on the nice list. >> and stop motion, all very old techniques. >> this might be the golden opportunity to find out who you really are. >> and like rudolph, it's a classic kind of fish-out-of-water story. but will ferrell just brings so much to it. >> come with me. >> okay. >> all he wants is to be accepted and believed. >> and at the end of the movie we get to see all these people who come to believe. there is that consistent christmas element in elf of change, or real...