The Night Before Christmas
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16mm Film - The Night Before Christmas - USA 1946
Written by: Clement Clarke Moore
The Night Before Christmas is another example of live action footage combined with vintage cartoon segments, this time by Castle Films. Castle Films distributed two dozen Christmas shorts in the 1930s and 1940s with The Night Before Christmas remaining in print for 26 years. The film is a complete narration of the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas a Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. The father narrates the poem and, as it plays out, several cartoon segments are interspersed including dancing sugarplums while the children sleep and Santa and his reindeer flying the sleigh through the evening sky as they deliver the presents.
Written by: Clement Clarke Moore
The Night Before Christmas is another example of live action footage combined with vintage cartoon segments, this time by Castle Films. Castle Films distributed two dozen Christmas shorts in the 1930s and 1940s with The Night Before Christmas remaining in print for 26 years. The film is a complete narration of the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas a Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. The father narrates the poem and, as it plays out, several cartoon segments are interspersed including dancing sugarplums while the children sleep and Santa and his reindeer flying the sleigh through the evening sky as they deliver the presents.
Sources
- YouTube channel: The Art of Film on 16mm · video ↗ — title, description, video
- 16mm Filmography editors — year, country
Record added 2026-06-12 21:02:56