 
A Christmas Past
A collection of holiday themed short films from the early days
of cinema, these shorts are a glimpse at the cinematic holiday
offerings made for filmgoers in the early part of the 20th
century. The nine films included here are: A HOLIDAY PAGEANT AT
HOME (5 min. 1901), A WINTER STRAW RIDE (Edwin S. Porter, 7 min.
1906), A TRAP FOR SANTA (D.W. Griffith 16 min. 1909), A
CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT (Bannister Merwin, 15 min. 1912), THE
ADVENTURE OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS: AN ADVENTURE OF OCTAVIUS:
AMATEUR DETECTIVE (14 min. 1914), SANTA CLAUS VS. CUPID (Will
Louis, 16 min. 1915), SANTA CLAUS (29 min. 1925), A CHRISTMAS
CAROL (10 min. 1910), and THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Edwin S.
Porter, 9 min. 1905).
One Christmas
A young boy in rural Alabama is reunited with his errant father
at Christmas, 1930, in this bittersweet adaptation of the Truman
Capote short story.
Prancer
A motherless young girl living with her father on a failing farm
finds herself inspired by her belief in Santa Claus and his
flying reindeer. When she discovers that a real reindeer has
fallen into ill health, she nurses it back to its prime,
believing it is the actual Prancer, so she can return it to
Santa that Prancer might pull his sleigh.
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A Christmas Story
Deliciously warped and winsome boyhood memories of Christmas are told by a
typical American man revisiting his native Indiana during the 1940s. Among other
childish pursuits, his overriding obsession to finally own a genuine Red Ryder
BB gun consumes his feverish imagination. Based on Jean Shepherd's novel, "In
God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash."
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Christmas
In this surreal pastiche of television-age nostalgia, sprung from the
perpetually prepubescent mind of Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee and his friends celebrate
Christmas in all kinds of unique, fun, and creative ways in a holiday special
unlike any other. The wacky and outrageous Pee-Wee (Paul Reubens) has made a
list for Santa; unfortunately it's so long that if he gets everything he wants,
there won't be anything left over for the other children on Santa's route|
Pee-Wee learns the true meaning of the Christmas spirit when he learns to share,
and along the way he is visited by a bevy of celebrity stars, including Whoopi
Goldberg, Frankie Avalon, Joan Rivers, Charo, Grace Jones, Annette Funicello,
Magic Johnson, K.D. Lang, Zsa Zsa Gabore, and Little Richard. This Christmas
classic is fun for the whole family, with all the cleverness and charm of the TV
series, and was nominated for three Emmy Awards when it came out in 1988.
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