Snowmen In Popular Culture

Snowmen have been a winter favorite all throughout history. From blobs of snow to the beloved Frosty we see on tv today, they’ve always been there. Frosty is a historical figure in children’s Christmas books, movies, and songs. He was built by the children of Karen’s school but the idea was thought up by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. Snowmen are a treasured holiday tradition that have a deep history, a favored character and even a song and movie.

Snowmen were built all throughout the years as art and to tell stories.

They go all the way back to the dark ages. These ghastly snow forms somehow wandered into being the loveable lumps of snow we see today(Burbank). Snowmen were a phenomenon in the middle ages. It was like free art supplies dropped

The writer of the movie, Romeo Muller, had an ability to take simple songs and come up with a compelling story to revolve around it. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by the same people, but five years earlier(Cronin). “The movie involves a magic hat that transforms a snowman, Frosty, into a living being. The magician who owned the hat wants it back now that he knows it contained actual magic, so the kids had to get together and find a way to bring Frosty to the North Pole to keep him from melting. However, once there, Frosty sacrifices himself to warm up the little girl, Karen, who took him to the North Pole. He melts, but Santa Claus explains that Frosty is made out of special Christmas snow and thus can never truly melt. Frosty then comes back to life and everyone has a Merry Christmas” said Brian Cronin. The song was written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. It was then sang by Gene Autry, who also sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer(McCormick) The song is considered a Christmas song even though it doesn’t mention Christmas at all. It just tells the story of a snowman who comes to life with the help of a magic hat(Frosty the Snowman by, Gene