The Tiny Tree - DePatie-Freling - 1975
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Here in all of it's heartwarming glory is "The Tiny Tree", the all-but-forgotten 1975 DePatie-Freleng animated Christmas special. It hasn't aired on TV in decades and has never been released on home video or DVD. It made a strong impression on those of us old enough to have seen it so many years ago with it's gentle message of love and friendship.
Roberta Flack performs the songs "To Love And Be Loved" and "When Autumn Comes", and three of Johnny Marks' Christmas songs are in this show..."A Caroling We Go", "Merry Merry Christmas To You", and "Joyous Christmas".
It is my hope that "The Tiny Tree" is released on DVD some day...it deserves so much more than to be just another forgotten Christmas special.
Written, directed, & produced by my grandfather Chuck Couch! I never knew him but it's video like this that make me feel closer. Thanks for posting!
It was and still is a wonderful special.
@Shannon Lucier Chuck Couch is your Grandfather? If this is true then you and I are cousins!!!!! Perhaps we are cousins by marriage as I am not familiar with your last name. We should swap family names to see where our family Tree connects.
Did you know our Uncle Ed (he's really my cousin but every one called him Uncle) who was a Doctor in real life actually played the doctor in the movie Deliverance with Burt Reynolds!!! We have a lot of family that were in the movie industry and in animation and directing.
@@nlcrme Hi Nancy!! Please contact me! I was adopted and just found my biological family last year. Jennifer Couch is my mother and Chuck is my grandfather. I have not connected with any other family on the Couch side. You can reach me at info(at)monstergraphics(dot)net. Look forward to connecting with you! Put a huge smile on my face!!
You must be very proud of him Shannon ;D
@@shannonlucier2914 Oh wow what a brilliant story you both share , very happy for you ;D
Dec.14,2020 . It's been a hard year for everyone. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Merry Christmas everyone. 🤶🤶🤶🤶🎅🎅🎅🎅🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for posting. I had been trying to find it. When I heard "To love and be loved" back in 1975, I vowed to sing it at my wedding and I did almost 17 years later!
Wish that they still showed Christmas programs like this.
I will agree with you . They don't make them like that anymore !
Andrea Burak you and me both!
Yes! These were very innocent and wonderful xmas cartoons
It's a shame that these type of simple, meaningful cartoons are no longer created. That's a part of learning about life. Simplicity!!!
Yes.me too.
It was a family tradition when my children where young to always watch this at Xmas. I had recorded it on video of the TV. It would always leave me with heart felt feelings I could not explain. My son is now 25yr old. Last August as he was traveling oversea he had an accident and is now a paraplegic . He was told he would never walk again. We watched the show for years after he grow up and left home. It was always on our Xmas to do list. I now understand what my feelings. Thank you Lynda
I have been looking for this cartoon for years...this was one of my favorite cartoons since I was a little girl. I'm so happy to have found this.
NicDenise I'm happy for you
I am glad you found your childhood memories.
This was a beautiful story. I love the relationship with the girl, the animals and the little tree. I love the songs especially about the clarinet. I played the clarinet.
🎄🎄What a Christmas find🎄🎄
Roberta Flack songs a real treat
Delightful old school. Thank you for this upload,
Happy New Year & may God bless all
LOVED THIS SHOW as a kid. Have it on VHS from an old recording. So glad its still around.
Thank you so much for posting The Tiny Tree. My brother and I would watch this movie over and over but I could never find it as an adult because we called it The Little Tree. I plan on playing it for him at our Christmas get together this year.
Thank you Thank you... I have been searching for this for many years... I too hope it will be released one day......It was one of my favorite Christmas TV Specials from my childhood..I can't figure out why the wonderful specials like this one are not shown anymore......what lessons they teach! Thanks again, my heart is happy tonight!
🎄🎄🎄🎅 merry Christmas to everyone watching in 2018 🎅🎄🎄🎄
Merry Christmas!!!❤️🎄
Mery Christmas in 2020🎄
I miss our old Christmas specials!!!! Some of the new ones are weird!!!!!
I would like to finish my story below. Last month my son sent me a video of him standing up and walking 10mt with only the aid of a pair of croutes. He has a long way to go yet & a lot of hard work still to do, but this year we got our Xmas MIRACLE. Thank you so very much for find this little tree again and this close to Xmas. God Bless you.
This is my favorite. It's really what Christmas and the holidays should be all about. Selfless love. Just perfect.
I love the beautiful song performed by Roberta Flack, "To Love and Be Loved." I wish it were available on cd or for download.
It was released on vinyl as a tie-in to this cartoon, but I suspect the record was only meant to be sent out to certain people, or perhaps TV and radio stations as a promo single, because it was never released publicly.
The little girl gets a Christmas tree AND a gift, the ability to walk again!
She'll receive her other gifts later, when her parents are able to get to the village after the snow is cleared out.
Reminds me of when I was happy and didn’t know it ❤️ love you mommy wherever you are.
🌲🎀🎁Merry Christmas to everyone watching in 2017⛄❄🎼
I saw this when I was a kid and the song "To love and be loved" I never forgot it.
In 75' I was about 7- 8 years old.
2018 - MERRY CHRISTMAS BOB HERSHEY - I can't thank you enough for making this available. Such a positive message about Love, Friendship and HOPE. I had, largely, remembered this special. However, I had forgotten that the little girl's legs are healed on Christmas morning, sooner than expected.
Wishing you and everyone, everywhere (whether they observe Christmas or not) Health and JOY in the New Year. PEACE ON EARTH!
Tchê Tiny Tree -Depatie Feeling 1975 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Oh the music was just splendid! The second the background orchestra struck up, I was moved into tears! Just touching. Barvo!
Such a loving video...yes, love is truly a gift ...seems to be Amazing Gift even after so many years. I miss these beautiful gems.
Merry Christmas to everyone
They need more of these cartoons, these are actually concerned as family friendly. I like family friendly cartoons.
I love cartoons like this they so meaningful n enjoyment gosh if only they still made them... nowadays cartoons are rubbish..
"Always like hearing Buddy Ebsen's
voice and this is very good,I remember seeing
this at one time or another but its been a long time
they just don't show old shows like this anymore,
DePatie-Freleng are best known for cartoons
such as the Pink Panther,the Inspector,the Tijuana Toads,etc.
this is very good even in 2020 which is about to be 2021.-😇🖥🌐🌏🌎🌍..
It aired sometime in the late '80s. My mother recorded it for me and I watched it about ten thousand times. :)
I does can't weigh to watch Christmas movies this the good old days 💞💞💞
I love Christmas show like this love to have more like this Thank you
I wish this was released on DVD for the holiday season
Gorgeous and warm hand-drawn art backed by beautiful songs sung by Roberta Flack and Buddy Ebsen in a moving, meaningful tale. Such a treat that I missed growing up - probably as I was a teenager? Thanks so much to you, Bob Hershey, for finding and posting this gem. Blessings for a Happy New Year.
It's too bad that the song "To Love and be Loved" was never released to a CD, I really liked that song even when I was a kid, I've never forgot it.
I LOVE this story, have looked for it to be on the yearly line up since I first saw it in the 70's, gotta love the internet.....
The turtle's song ("Tell it to a turtle") was taken from the 1966 Rankin Bass TV Special "The Ballad of Smokey The Bear"!!
Holy moly! I have tried tracking down this movie for years! I only remembered the girl falling out of her wheelchair in the snow with the animals around her so i scrolled through it to find that scene to see if it was the right movie. Was just reading the comments when i came across this one. I didn't realize this Turtle song was in this movie (cuz I scrolled at first) ...we sang this song in music class in grade school! I never realized it was in a movie! Awesome discovering 2 childhood memories in one video! Thank you to the video poster and the Turtle song commenter!❤🐢
After watching this special, Iv'e learned that you always win when you are good!
I always loved watching this every year when I was little. I was always mystified that they don’t seem to show it on tv any more. Thanks so much for posting it! It fills my heart with joy to see it again. ❤
Thank you so much! What an amazing spirit lifter. Took me back to happier times. I really appreciate that. Thanks again!
I remember this special as a little kid in the 1970s. A very sweet production from the DePatie-Freleng studio. And it used a lot of full animation; very different from DFE's usual limited but stylized and thoughtful animation work. The company was experimenting with different graphic styles in its TV specials, such as with the Flip Wilson specials of the same period.
DFE was sold to Marvel Comics and renamed Marvel Productions, and of course Disney now owns Marvel. Which means Disney now owns "The Tiny Tree". The House of Mouse might not even be aware this special even exists.
This might sound crazy, but AT&T might actually have the rights to this now. You see, this film was funded and distributed by Bell System, which was operated by AT&T, and they actually have the original negative still.
Perfect Christmas message...with an exceptional soundtrack
🎄Christmas from days gone by...such fine memories of this cartoon & it’s great soundtrack🎄
I want to thank you sooo very much for posting this. I have been missing this Christmas gem for many years, since my mother died when I was 28 and I could not find the vhs tapes of our Christmas shows from my childhood. I have a 7 year old son, so now he can see this wonderful story too. My heart is bursting with joy! I cannot wait to show it to him when he wakes up. He is sick, so maybe this will perk him up. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Reachingfor12thDimension What's the matter with the sweet little lamb? Hope it's not anything serious. I know of two actually wonderful places in Tennessee. I wonder if you have ever heard of these wonderful places. They are in a metropolis known as Memphis, and the name of these two places for you to take him are Le Bonheur, a place that I had been in, and right next door is St. Jude, a facility for children with cancer. Both of these wonderful places can help your son. I hope your son will recover by Christmas. Bless the little lamb. I hope he gets well by then, if not sooner. Bless you all and merry Christmas from Mississippi.
thankful you gave this to us...so much for new generations to learn. Happy New Year!
I don't have a star on top. Never had. My star is Jesus's star:) Never needed anything else.
Thank you for keeping this special alive here on RUclips.
Brought to you by the "Bell System", long before it was broken up. They of course was the sponsor of this special.
It mattered. I think at present this film is in AT&T's Archives as we speak.
Chuck Couch, who directed this special, worked with Bell/AT&T in the past to produce a short film that I have long forgotten the name of.
This is such a wonderful special.
Omg thank you so much for posting this. My sister and I grew up in the 90s but this movie was such a special part of our childhood. I never thought I would find it again!
Musicians:
Vocals - Roberta Flack
Keyboards - Harry Whitaker
Drums - Idris Muhammad
So sad the producers and Roberta Flack never released the theme song.
I have since found out the theme was released on an EP that was given out to radio stations. I would like to find it and put it up on RUclips.
Awesome. It even looks like our authentic tv-taped copy from our VHS player!
Yea it’s really comforting that it’s not slick , it has warmth to it 😄
Thank you! I've been looking for this for a long time. I watched it as a child during the Christmas Specials. It's definitely one of the forgotten ones.
I saw this movie in 1988 or 89. My mom had it on video tape and I always remembered the song by Roberta Flack when the little girl met the tiny tree. I watched this movie a thousand times just for the song. Too bad it is only a score for the cartoon and never recorded...that I know of. Thanks for the upload. :)
I liked this movie as a kid. Looking back, I realized how much sense it didn’t seem to make
😅😂🤣😋lol
i loved this movie!!!
I loved this so much, thank you for sharing!
I have been looking for this for many years now. Thank you sooooo much for putting this out there for all to enjoy!!! Bless you!!!
first time ever seeing this thank you for posting. 12-25-19
I love this video. I had a copy made from tv years ago. But, it was a VHS copy and very poor quality. I wish depatie/freleng would release this on DVD. Thank you for putting it out here! ❤️
Sadly Depatie/Freleng is long defunct. They were acquired by Marvel of all things, and through years of acquisitions, mergers, and buy-outs, who knows who owns their name now. I heard that AT&T owns the original negative to this film, and I’m hopeful that they will make it public someday.
Heartwarming. :3
I remember being a little kid back in the early 1980s and getting the weekly TV guide that came in the newspaper on Sundays and marking everything down in red crayon that was a Christmas show that came on during the week and watching it later.. I believe I saw this once as a young kid but watching it now brings back a lot of memories 😅👍🏽😃
Thank you for uploading this.
That was rather nice. Thank you for posting it!
I love collecting any kind of used blank tape, cause you never know what ya might find.. old TV shows, etc.. but when people donate old tapes to Goodwill etc, they pick out the home recorded tapes and throw them away, and just keep the store bought movies to sell... they have destroyed tons of rare recordings people have made. Don't ever donate your tapes there! people like me collect them! I'm sure there's many TV treasures left to be discovered!! always keep your master tapes after you put them to DVDs, cause discs will rot away over time!
I agree. I had lots of tapes I had recorded from early 2000's of Cartoon Network and wished I hadn't thrown them away but my parents made me. I wished I had just told them no and kept them somewhere they wouldn't have known.
Thank you
love this story
Thank you!
I loved this so much as a kid!! O
It will always be a forever favorite.
Thank you for putting this on!!! I have tried to obtain a copy of it for my collection but it is no where to be found. Thanks so much!❤❤
I wish they going to re-master it on the DVD.
What a classic. It never shown in the Philippines
back in the 80's when all the television are
using the projectors. Thanks
Danke
I love ♥️ this story , every thing about this is simply enchanting , the music , animation , sound , score / music . Thank you 😊
I like it I have never seen it before
What a beautiful and heart warming cartoon! 🥰🥰🥰🥰💖💖💖💖💖👱🏻♀️🎄
I also wish it could be released on DVD. Heres hoping.
A Classic!
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas all
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS. I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR YEARS. ALSO LOOKING FOR THE PIANO MUSIC FOR "WHEN AUTUMN COMES" THAT ROBERTA FLACK SANG. THANKS!
Quite a few years ago, I found and bought the Vocal Selections book for the whole video. When I get back to Norfolk in a few days, I'll look for it and, if I find it, I'll try to hit you up; getting a photocopy to you shouldn't be hard :)
I've been told AT&T (the "new" AT&T) still owns this.
20:33- Am I the only one who noticed that they left her wheelchair at the window, across the room from her bed? Her parents don't seem to pay that much attention her, letting her go outside by herself and all that, and not even moving her wheelchair closer to her bed if she has to go potty in the middle of the night. Good thing she's got the woodland critters looking out for her.
I remember when this first aired. When I saw the opening, I thought it was a Charlie Brown special.
I remember when the little girl, put the flowers in the Tiny Tree. I thought they were her basic Christmas decorations.
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PLEASE IF I MAY !,WHAT A WASTE , NOTE, ROBERTA, FLACK, WHAT A WONDERFUL, SONG, -!- TO LOVE AND BE LOVED IS A BLESSING,-!- SHOULD BE HEARD BY ALL,!---------------------------THANK, YOU!- MS,- ROBERTA,-_______!-ALWAYS MR, ROBERT,K
Buddy Ebson's 1st animation voice movie! He was the Badger under the tree.
Love this!
This was so cute! Nice song by Roberta Flack. I can’t seem to find it on RUclips.
The song was never released anywhere. It can only be found in this Christmas special.
Sister Sophia love this movie now. And Border Aunnty Rary Christy Auineed Oberon love this movie as well!😊😀
John boy Aunt MA miss you Daddy Christy Auineed aka Aunnty Rary miss !🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁⛪🎅🎅🎅🎅
The narrator is Buddy Ebsen, an amazing dancer and star during the Golden Age of Hollywood; but most well known as Jeb in "The Beverly Hillbillies".
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Nice ^^
There seems to be two versions of the special someone noticed elsewhere.
Love.
(3:33)
🐢🗣 Paul Winchell as the turtle is using his Dick Dastardly/Gargamel/Sam-I-am/Tootsie Pop Owl voice!
Don't forget his ventriloquist puppet Jerry Mahoney from The Paul Winchell Show! 😉
As Seen on Family Classics with Dean Richards
That's great. So i'm not the only one trying to keep this animated Christmas special alive.
Sweet and cuteeeeeee♡