Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Spirit of Christmas

This is where it all began for Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

As film students in 1992, they created the first "Spirit of Christmas" short using construction paper and an old 8mm camera.


A copy of this short somehow made its way to an executive at Fox, who then commissioned Parker and Stone to make a new "Spirit of Christmas" short which he distributed to some 80 friends as a "video Christmas card" in 1995.


It was so popular amongst its recipients that it became a must-have bootleg throughout the industry. It wasn't long before the TV networks started calling, and in 1997 "South Park" debuted on Comedy Central.

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