Claymation Christmas • Carol of the Bells

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Claymation Christmas Celebration was a television special that originally aired in the United States in 1987. It was produced and directed by claymation legend Will Vinton, creator of the ubiquitous 90’s California Raisins ads.

Claymation Christmas features Rex and Herb, recurring Vinton dinosaur characters who introduce and discuss a series of Christmas tunes.

This “Carol of the Bells” sequence portrays a performance at Notre Dame Cathedral under the direction of Maestro Quasimodo by The Paris Bell-Harmonic, a group of church bells who strike their own heads with mallets to achieve their respective notes, with one bell constantly dawdling and enraging Quasimodo.