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- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsWilliam WadsworthMrs. William BechtelAugustus PhillipsThe Giltons are next-door neighbors to the Biltons. The houses are exactly alike and adjoin each other; the back yards are not even separated by a fence. Gilton is a crabbed old money-maker and childless; his wife has grown submissive through years of continual nagging. The Biltons are a happy family of seven; poverty and scrimping have not soured them. The struggle to maintain his wife and the little ones has left Bilton threadbare, but the loving wife and five pairs of little arms that creep around his neck each morning and night are worth the fight. The fact that old Gilton fumes and fusses about the children sometimes stepping over the line of his back-yard bothers him only insofar as he dislikes discord. When Gilton's dog is poisoned, Bilton is as sorry as though it had been his own, yet old Gilton accuses him of being the poisoner. Even the heartbroken sobs of Bilton's sweet little daughter Cora Cordelia over the death of her canine playfellow fail to convince the crusty old man. When the grocer's boy delivers Gilton's order to Mrs. Bilton and she cooks the dinner thinking her husband sent the things, Gilton is almost ready to commit murder. As Christmas approaches, the Biltons are hard-pressed but give their little store to the children to buy presents, telling them that Santa Claus is too poor to leave them a turkey. On Christmas Eve, old Gilton staggers home in a blizzard, the turkey for Christmas dinner under his arm. On the porch that leads to the twin doors of his house and the Biltons', a terrific gust of wind and snow closes his eyes, and, horror of horrors, he enters the home of the hated neighbor. Blinded and cold, his entire figure snow-covered, he steps into the midst of the Biltons, gathered about the table laden with the cheap presents and listening open-mouthed to Bilton reading "The Night Before Christmas." The children's vision of cheery Santa is rudely interrupted by Gilton's snow-covered figure. To them, he is the real Santa Claus. In a beautiful closing scene, old Gilton's flinty eyes fill with tears and the breach between the families is closed as though the spirit of Santa Claus himself had welded it.
- DirectorCharles M. SeayStarsBarry O'MooreJulian ReedRichard NeillWhen a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsHenry B. WalthallMarion LeonardGladys EganThe children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap.
- DirectorWill LouisStarsRaymond McKeeBilly CaseyGuido ColucciA desperate man and two romantic rivals encounter one another at a Christmas party.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyEdwin S. PorterStarsGitchner HartmanMr. LehapmanBessie SchredneckyA generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterIt's December 24th, and 'Santa Claus' is busy feeding his reindeer and finishing up the toys that he will soon deliver. Meanwhile, the children in a large family hang their stockings over the fireplace, and then are put to bed. But the restless children cannot sleep, and they soon start a lively pillow fight. Back at his workshop, Santa loads up everything and begins his journey.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithStarsLaura BayleyDorothy SmithHarold SmithBrother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczA Christmas ornament comes alive and goes to a forest where he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared and to celebrate Christmas.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsSyd SaylorEthlyne ClairSunny Jim McKeenThe family go Christmas shopping. Snookums, whether through hereditary influence or not, is a kleptomaniac. He takes unto himself a train of cars without the formality of paying for the same. Father makes two attempts to bring home a Christmas tree. The first is denuded going through the crowd. The second picks up from other shoppers various articles so that when it arrives at the Newlyweds' domicile it is already decorated. Enter the burglar. After him the pursuing policeman. Lest the baby's illusion be destroyed the burglar is made up as a Santa Claus and entertains the baby.
- Santa's elves at the North Pole are making toys for good girls and boys, while back in the suburbs a family stands around the Christmas tree singing carols.
- Two children have their Christmas wish fulfilled when they are transported to the North Pole for a visit with Santa.
- DirectorRichard MassinghamStarsRichard MassinghamA brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail
- Relates creating the melody to the Christmas Carol "Silent Night" (German:"Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"), 1818, by Franz Gruber to poetic lyrics of a priest, Father Joseph Mohr, in the small town in a district of Salzburg, Austria.
- A pine tree longs to be used for something.
- Santa comes down the chimney, awakens the children and tells them stories.
- DirectorAlan DinehartStarsLouis JourdanEllen Cobb-HillMargaret HamiltonA young man with everything to live for is crushed to learn of the death of his fiancée in a fire on Christmas Eve. For three years he wallows in self-pity until a young girl reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas.
- Santa Claus puts in a Punch and Judy show for kids. Hilarity ensues.
- DirectorManuel San FernandoShot at the Santa's Village parks in California and in Dundee, Illinois in the 60s. It shows many of the park's features including the snowball ride, an icy North Pole, and the Puppet Place theater.
- StarsDayton AllenRobert KeeshanBob SmithIt's Christmas Eve and Santa hasn't come yet, so Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy, and Clarabell The Clown (Bob Keeshan soon-to-be "Captain Kangaroo") decide to take the Rocket Doodle as transportation and head for the North Pole to see what's happened to Santa. When they get there they find out that "Ugly Sam" (Dayton Allen later of "The Steve Allen Show") thinks that Santa is the "Bearded Bandit" and has captured him. So, it's up to Howdy and the Crew to prove differently.
- A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanKarel ZemanStarsJana HrdlickováChristmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or isn't it a dream...
- DirectorFrank MoserPaul TerryTwo children dream about meeting Santa Claus and he tells them a story about what happens in the toy shop when the toy maker goes home for the day.
- DirectorFrank MoserPaul Terry
- DirectorMabel BeatonStarsMabel Beaton MarionettesAlexander ScourbyIn this family film short, a nearly all marionette cast perform a dramatization of "The Night Before Christmas" and a performance of the Nativity.
- DirectorStefan SharffAnimal puppets seek out Santa to find out why he doesn't deliver presents to them.
- DirectorJean DowningStarsBob LeonardA little girl imagines that the nursery rhyme characters in her book have come to life, and sees the story of "The Littlest Snowman" as well.
- StarsTommy AlexanderJack BeveridgeCarol BlessingThe Elf and Mr. Little (1953) features marionettes in a story 13 minutes long about Mr. Little a grumpy old toy-maker who has lost his Christmas spirit feeling the pressure to make toys during the season. The toy-maker makes a deal with an elf to help him make toys at Christmastime in exchange for letting the elf have anything in the shop that he wants when his work is done. Throughout the season the elf works away while each night a little girl accompanying a group of carolers peers at a doll in the shop window. Once the elf completes his work, he asks Mr. Little for the doll in the window. Curious to know what the elf wanted with the doll, Mr. Little follows him to a church where the elf presents the doll to the little girl. After witnessing the selfless exchange, Mr. Little's heart is changed, and his Christmas spirit is returned. An unusual production, The Elf and Mr. Little was filmed in the Boys Club of Phoenix using a boys choir to sing the songs of the marionette choir. Some releases show it in black-and-white, others with a blue tint.
- DirectorNeil McGuireJingle Bells one of the most popular Christmas song of all times video for kids with Santa, Rudolph, Mr. Snowman and more. A colorful and fun video for kids of Jingle Bells, one of the most well-known popular and commonly sung children's Christmas carol.
- DirectorNeil McGuire