"The Christmas That Almost Wasn't"

[mp3aa]

Anyone remember this? Chuck and Jasper go to the north pole to help Santa.
We received this in time for Christmas, 1983.
Video tape of a Chuck E. Cheese cartoon.

If no one has this, I can make it available to you on a DVD.

[pizzacam]

No! I'd only heard of this...I'd love a copy on DVD! :eek

[mp3aa]

I don't think it would cost me more than $10 to burn a copy and mail it in the USA.
If that sounds reasonable to you, let me know.

[Billy Bob Brockali]

I'd love to get a DVD copy as well, for the better quality, but is there anyway you can YouTube this? I thought the cartoon was just a rumor.

[mp3aa]

It's about 26 minutes long.
I don't think I could fit it to a format that would be good enough for youtube considering the length.
I think they limit to 10 minutes.

[Billy Bob Brockali]

Yeah, we have to cut up the longer stuff to make it fit. You tube does have some limitations. Even a clip would be cool to see, though. Thanks again for all your work.

[mp3aa]

Here's a clip of the cartoon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPiq26VE9w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPiq26VE9w)

[pizzacam]

Awesome! :lol

[dheineCECfan]

Saw a couple seconds of it on YouTube.

[VegaNova]

Dude you are my new hero!

I had heard that some copies of this were floating around out there, but this is the first one that's actually surfaced. I was told by someone working for corporate during the final days of PTT that this video was in the middle of production when the company started hurting. This is why it's only presented as an animatic and not full blown animation.

Regardless I would love a DVD copy and / or see the rest of it on YouTube. While I'm on the subject, would you mind if I added your videos to the new Video Archive for this website? It will debut the beginning of Sept and I'll credit all of your videos to "mp3aa" for the submissions.

-VegaNova

[mp3aa]

Feel free to post any and all videos I submit.

The word at the time was that Nolan & crew had developed a computer program that would animate, between still scenes, and have a completely animated cartoon.
When I received this from corporate, that's what I was expecting. I called corporate and they told me the program had not been perfected yet, but thanked me for telling them I had received the tape. I was the first to respond to receiving it.

Being the pack rat that I am, I saved it.
I'm just shocked that this is the only copy to surface.
Wait a minute! EBay! Starting at $1,000!!! LOL!!! :lol

[Rapid T Rabbit]

Yes! I remember hearing about this too a very long time ago and always wondered what it looked like.

Here is a clipping from the December 1983 issue of The Pizza Times that mentions the cartoon. Notice how old the computers are in the picture.
http://www.bobdbob.com/~rtrabbit/personal/ptimeskad.jpg

[mp3aa]

Those computers are real antiques!
That's a great clipping!