Paul Frees’s Typical Vibe
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Paul Frees has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Time Machine.
Recurring themes

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
Animation · Family

Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
Animation · Family

The Polar Express
2004
Adventure · Animation

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
2005
Adventure · Animation

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009
Animation · Family

Tinker Bell
2008
Animation · Family

Barbie in A Mermaid Tale
2010
Animation · Family

The Pagemaster
1994
Family · Fantasy

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Dir. George Pal · With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes

as Santa Claus / Traffic Cop / Additional Voices (voice) · Voice
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, the magic snowman and Karen, a young girl whom he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the North Pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Jimmy Durante, Billy De Wolfe, Jackie Vernon

as The True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator (voice) · Voice
Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathematics can be useful in our real life. Through this journey Donald shows us how mathematics are not just numbers and charts, but magical living things.
Dir. Les Clark, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador · With Clarence Nash, Paul Frees

The story follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a diminutive creative who resides in a place called Middle-Earth before he is compelled to go on a quest to find a treasure buried deep in the heart of the Lonely Mountain.
Dir. Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass · With Orson Bean, John Huston, Hans Conried

as Mayor Burgermeister Meisterburger / Grimsley (voice) · Voice
Prime Video · Rent
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grows up, he wants to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock lives between the Kringles and Sombertown.
Dir. Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass · With Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn

as Kubla Kraus / Father Winter (voices)
Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Buddy Hackett, Robert Morse, Paul Frees

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
Dir. Fred F. Sears · With Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Dir. Lewis Allen · With Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason

as Solarius / Antiquity (voice) · Voice
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so the green wizard, Carolinus, decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Harry Morgan, James Gregory, John Ritter

as Ludwig Von Drake (voice) (uncredited) · Voice
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?
Dir. Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts · With Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig

as Aaron's Father / Magi / Samson / Joshua / Baba / Others (voice) · Voice
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has, a song on his drum.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr., Takeo Nakamura · With Greer Garson, Ted Eccles, José Ferrer

as Santa Claus / Aeon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
Dir. Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass · With Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin, Morey Amsterdam

as Orc / Uruk-Hai / Capt. Shagrat / Lt. Snaga / Lord Elrond (voice) · Voice
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Orson Bean, Roddy McDowall, John Huston
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