Underplayed Gems

Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)

Twas the Night Before Christmas poster
Original title
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Directed by
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Genre
Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
25 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 77 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A community of talking mice and a grumpy town clockmaker deal with a Christmas letter crisis. The classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas is woven into the story, told from the mice's perspective.

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What happens

'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 American animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions that features Clement Clarke Moore's famous 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, the opening line of which is the source of the title of this animated special. The special first originally aired on CBS on December 8, 1974, and the network aired it annually until 1994, when The Family Channel (now Freeform) took over its syndication rights. AMC took over syndication rights for the special in 2018. Although the opening credits mention "told and sung by Joel Grey", it is really narrated by George Gobel, as there is more emphasis on the point of view of Father Mouse, with Moore's poem read by Grey as a secondary plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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