Jack Frost (1979). In this delightful animated tale, Pardon-me Pete (Buddy Hackett), 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-a tall. Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Buddy Hackett, Robert Morse, Paul Frees, Larry Storch. The Groundhog tells the story of how, for once, Jack Frost became human, and helped a knight win his lady love.
Contents.Background Jack Frost is traditionally said to leave the frosty, fern-like patterns on windows on cold winter mornings (window or fern frost) and nipping the extremities in cold weather. Over time, window frost has become far less prevalent in the modern world due to the advance of, but Jack Frost remains a well-known figure in popular culture. He is sometimes described or depicted with paint brush and bucket coloring the autumnal foliage red, yellow, brown, and orange. Sometimes he is portrayed as a dangerous giant:The Hindus derive the name of from the tradition that a giant used to lie there in wait to kill ( kesh) all the Hindus who passed that way. This giant was probably the same whom we, in the Arctic Regions, used to call “Old Zero,” better known in England as “Jack Frost.” The horrors of the snow-covered wastes probably gave rise to the tradition.' This section needs additional citations for.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( November 2012) He may originate from Anglo-Saxon and Norse winter customs and has an entire chapter named after him in Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from their ancient oral tradition.In Russia however, he has taken on a different form as, and in Germany there is instead a different entity altogether known as. There are various other mythological beings who take on a similar role yet have different folklore to them.Jack Frost has appeared as a character in television and movies. He was mentioned in the wintertime song ' (aka 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire'). He has been presented as a villain in some media and a hero in others.In popular culture Literature.
Jack Frost pattern on window in Gatineau, Quebec. 's (1789-1865) poem 'The Frost' features a mischievous being responsible for the quieter phenomena of winter, beautiful ice paintings on windows but who also got upset at lack of gifts and caused the cold to break and ruin things. In Margaret T.
Canby's 'Birdie and His Fairy Friends' (1874), there is a short story titled 'The Frost Fairies.' In this story, Jack Frost is the king of the and is described as a kind fellow who wants to help children, whereas a king of a neighboring kingdom, King Winter, is cruel to them.
The story tells the origins of how Jack Frost began to oversee the coloring of the leaves of the forest in fall. In 1891 made her own reproduction of the story, titled. In 's 'Little Jack Frost', published in The Aldine, (Vol.7, No.16, 1875) Jack Frost is a playful being who runs around playing pranks and 'nose-biting', coating places with snow before being chased off by Dame Nature for spring.
In 's (1902), Jack Frost is the son of the otherwise unnamed Frost King. He takes pleasure in nipping 'scores of noses and ears and toes', but Santa Claus, who likes Jack (who he sees as a 'jolly rogue') though he mistrusts him, asks him to spare the children. Jack says he will, if he can resist the temptation. The same Jack appears in 'The Runaway Shadows', a short story by Baum. In this story, he has the power to freeze shadows, separating them from their owners, making them their own living entities. In 's series, a character emerges as the original Jack Frost. Jack Frost has appeared as a minor character in the stories.
In the books by Daisy Meadows, Jack Frost is an antagonist who wants to freeze Fairyland. He is accompanied by pesky goblins who steal fairies, and try to sabotage them. Jack Frost also appears in ', a poem by. In the novel by, Jack grows tired of 'fern patterns' and paints more elaborate pictures on windows.
Jack Frost appears in trilogy of novels by. The Man Jack, an enigmatic assassin, calls himself Jack Frost in by., a picture book by, stars Jack Frost as a lonely stranger with. Jack Frost is one of the co-stars of the 2002 novel Jill Chill and the Baron of Glacier Mountain, written by Ed McCray with artwork by George Broderick, Jr. Jack is portrayed as Jill Chill's boyfriend. Jack Frost, an automaton of one of the Ten Benchwarmers in the light novel. 's Guardians of Childhood series features Jack Frost as a character, here known by the full name Jackson Overland Frost.
He is the subject of the picture book The Guardians of Childhood: Jack Frost which depicts him as having been previously known as Nightlight, guardian of the Man in the Moon. Jack Frost will also be the focus of the upcoming fifth Guardians novel, Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning.
Jack Frost also features in Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenComics. In comic books, appears as a superhero in works published by (now ) in the 1940s. A man covered in ice, he could project ice and cold and is a member of the.
had a second Jack Frost, the first alias of the original. In a Sunday edition of the comic strip, father Hi, teen-aged son Chip, and young son Ditto are driving to the garden center one Sunday afternoon in late autumn. Ditto asks his father why leaves change color in the fall.
'Well,' says Hi, 'there's actually a very interesting story behind that.' However, Chip interrupts and gives Ditto the correct scientific explanation as to why leaves change color, which he learned in high school. In the final panel, later that night, a dejected Hi muses to his wife Lois, 'I wanted to tell him about Jack Frost and his magic palette.' . Jack Frost appears in the 2009 comic book Jill Chill & The Christmas Star by Ed McCray and George Broderick Jr., a sequel to the Jill Chill illustrated novel mentioned above. This is a traditional representation of Jack Frost as a teenager.
is the alias of Dane McGowan one of the main characters from the 1990s Vertigo series. Jack Frost, an automaton of one of the Ten Benchwarmers in the manga. In (a spinoff) the titular character became Jack Frost for a period of time. A second Jack Frost ('Jack too, or Jack two') appears as the son of Jack Horner and The Snow Queen.Feature films., a Russian film from 1964, has the title Morozko—the Russian equivalent of Jack Frost. In the 1997 film, a serial killer turns into a snowman and continues his rampage. This movie spawned a sequel in 2000:, also starring this version of Jack Frost.
In the 1998 film, plays a human by the name of Jack Frost, who is killed in a on. A year later he returns as a snowman to spend time with his son. Jack Frost appears as the primary antagonist in played. In this portrayal, he desires to take control of Christmas and claim it as his own, as he is jealous of the attention and popularity of Santa Claus.
His 'Frostmas' holiday proposal had even annoyed Santa Claus and the other members of the Council of Legendary Figures (which also consisted of, the, the, and the ). Jack Frost appears as the protagonist of, loosely based on the series Guardians of Childhood by, voiced.
Jack Frost is getting tired of being unseen and is suddenly forced to join the Guardians (which consists of Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Sandman, and the Easter Bunny) to defeat the (aka Pitch Black). Bartholomew F.
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