What if Amblimation was still open?/Rise of the Guardians: The Untold Story of The Last Light

Rise of the Guardians: The Untold Story of The Last Light is a 2013 direct-to-disc traditional-animated action-adventure fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Amblimation and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. Distributed by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and released July 16, 2013 on Blu-Ray and DVD, the film's main plot concerns upon a little boy who has to deal with the reality of how cruel some adults can be to young children.

The movie was originally written to be a television movie/series pilot in four episode-length segments. The four segments (all of them are written by eight people) are titled "Portrait of a Child", "Breaking Apart is Easy to Do", "Leggo My Child-O", and "Jay and Jamie's Excellent Adventure".

While it did receive positive reviews for it's writing, animation, and voice acting, it also generated a significant amount of criticism and controversy from various media organizations and critics for it's portrayal of child abuse which, unusually for a studio like Amblimation, is portrayed in a very serious manner.

These four episodes aired as the four-part premiere of Rise of the Guardians: The Series. NBC aired the edited, shortened and separated versions of the four segments on September 19, 2013. It also had several scenes cut out, new scenes put in, and other scenes altered to make it more appropriate for broadcast on television.

Portrait of a Child
During the first day of spring break, Jack Frost visits Burgess to bring snow to town and to cure every child's boredom.

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Televised version and changes
NBC aired the movie on September 19, 2013. As foretold in the audio commentary, many scenes were heavily edited and/or altered: