Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas

Daddy's Handwriting

Here's an original written by me! Enjoy!

A Krampus Christmas [Screen Novelties]

Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936)

A creepy old man with a creepy laugh thinks it's a good idea to break into an orphanage on Christmas Day. That's not the way you're supposed to take it, but it's not untrue.

Dig the sneaky use of models at the beginning and end that look convincingly hand-drawn... until the camera moves, and you get a better idea of what you're looking at. Very innovative stuff.

Christmas Presence (Part 2) - Simon's Cat

Christmas Presence (Part 1) - Simon's Cat

Hardrock, Coco & Joe

Produced by Centaur Productions in 1956, this short, like "Suzy Snowflake" and "Frosty the Snowman," has become an annual tradition in certain regions.

Peace On Earth

This is a truly bizarre little cartoon disguised as family treacle: a deceptively sweet Christmas tableau with cutesy woodland creatures gives way to an anti-war statement by revealing itself to be set in a post-apocalyptic world wherein war caused the extinction of humanity. And it was released in 1939, when World War II was underway in Europe, but America had yet to become involved. Ballsy. Merry Christmas, humanity!

Animaniacs Noel

Miser Brothers

Why leave well enough alone when you can, you know, not?

In 2008, the popular Rankin/Bass characters, the Miser Brothers, were revived for a sequel special. The original voice of the Heat Miser, George S. Irving, was still alive and returned to perform the character once again.

This modern special sought to recreate the original style of Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation and is largely successful, although improvements to the technology and techniques of stop-motion animation couldn't help but to have an effect on the finished look.

Here's the new rendition of the Heat Miser/Snow Miser song. (For the original version, click here.)

Suzy Snowflake

Preceding UPA's "Frosty the Snowman" by a year, Centaur Productions created this adaptation of the winter song in 1953. It has remained an annual staple in certain regions, particularly Chicago, ever since.

Snow Miser/Heat Miser

From Rankin/Bass's "The Year Without a Santa Claus" comes this beloved showstopper...

"Winter's Feat" - Foxtails Brigade

A nice winter song, with animation and production by friends of this site.

Escape

A Jib Jab Merry Christmas

The first Christmas special

What you're about to witness is the very first Christmas special ever produced for American television. The success of the video below is why we have Rankin/Bass's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and everything right up through "Prep & Landing 3." This is why every TV series does its obligatory variation of the Dickens standard. This is ground zero for the ever-expanding holiday subgenre of televised entertainment that dominates the month of December (and often leaks over into November). Everything we know about holiday specials can be traced back to this singular event.

Ladies and gentlemen... "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol"!

Three Little Pigs Christmas

The Krampus Song

Christmas In L.A. [The Killers]