Certain cartoons stay with you for your whole life, this is one of them. Most likely, until I found it again to review it, I'd had only seen this once or twice. But I found that as I watched it, I vividly remembered major portions of it. The following is truly a work of art in every sense of the word.
The cartoon begins with an introduction from the one and only David Bowie. Mr. Bowie is speaking as if the events actually happened to him and if a snowman ever did come to life, then Mr. Bowie was probably involved. Aside from this scene, there is absolutely no dialogue during the short.
A young boy wakes up to find out that it has snowed during the night. He immediately goes out to play in it. Eventually he builds a rather large snowman. By this time, it is getting dark and his mother calls him in. But still the boy keeps watching his snowman. At midnight, the snowman comes to life. The boy goes out to greet him and invites him into the house. He shows the snowman the wonders of technology, such as the television and lights. The whole time the two are keeping quiet to prevent the boy's parents from waking up.
Soon the two go outside and ride a motorcycle through the woods, pestering the many animals that live there. Soon the heat starts to melt the snowman, so the boy finds him a freezer to cool off. The snowman finds a picture of the North Pole and seems to remember something and gets up. The boy follows him and the two begin to fly. The following sequence is amazing and I am not able to fully describe it as it should, so here is the full scene. After they land, the snowman leads the boy through a forest. They reach a clearing filled with living snowmen and Santa Claus. The snowmen are having a party and the boy joins in. Santa soon shows the boy his stable where the boy gets to see his reindeer. Santa gives the boy a scarf covered in snowmen. The snowman and the boys then return home. The boy waves goodbye and goes inside so he can sleep. When he awakes the next day, he discovers that the snowman has melted during the night. Maybe it was all a dream, but then he discovers that he still has the scarf that Santa gave him.
