The Night Before Christmas

This is a combination of live film and animation. If one isn't too picky, it works pretty well. It captures pretty well the time that Clement Moore wrote the poem. The characters are interesting. Santa is focused on and does seem a bit deranged at times. He certainly takes his time. But it is a sweet little film without a lot of nice images and the special effects aren't bad for 1946. There have been so many versions of this poem that it's hard to be very original.

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This is fully faithful adaption of the classic Christmas Poem. The film uses a combination of live action and animation. I enjoyed this. What is sad is that it has fallen in to public domain and a decent print I have failed to see. In need of restoration it will most likely never be done. I am sure it will be a lost film soon because it is obvious that the film elements are in poor condition.

With this feature in public domain nobody will restore it because that can't make money off of it.

See it before it disappears

The Night Before Christmas (1946)

*** (out of 4)

This here is just one film version that takes the poem and tries to do something new with it. The one difference here is that this mixes live action and animation to tell the story of the night before Christmas. If you've seen one version of this poem then you've pretty much seen them all as it seems there's not too much that hasn't already been done. I found this version here to be worth watching because it has a somewhat creepy feel to it and especially the Santa Claus. I'm sure nothing bad was meant but just take a look at the sequence where the jolly old Santa is just laughing away. Again, I know this is part of the poem but the laughing Santa here seems more like a madman than just a jolly old guy. It was also interesting that they wanted to mix the live action with the animation but the only animated sequences are basically when Santa is flying through the air. I'm going to guess that it was a little cheaper to do animation over a special effect of him flying. Either way, fans of Christmas shorts will want to check this one out and especially if they want to see one of the weirder ones.