Santa Claus (1912)

Directed by

R.H. Callum, Floyd Martin Thornton, Walter R. Booth

Genre

fantasy film

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A little girl dreams she visits Toyland and helps Santa Claus in his workshop. The film mixes live-action with early color film techniques.

whimsicaldreamygentleplayfulnostalgiclightheartedsereneold-fashioned

What happens

Santa Claus is a 1912 fantasy silent film in which a little girl dreams that she goes to Toyland, where she helps Santa Claus in his workshop. The film was based on a stage play of the same name that played with the same cast at the Scala Theatre in London where it ran from 23 December 1912 to 8 January 1913 with a score by Theodore Holland. A suite by Holland based on music from the play was frequently broadcast at Christmas time during the 1920s and 1930s on BBC Radio. The play was a combination of live-action and two-color Kinemacolor film. In the UK the film was distributed by the Natural Color Kinematograph Co. in 1912 (610 m - 2 reels) and in the United States by the Kinemacolor Company of America in 1913 (900 m - 3 reels). The film was directed by Walter R. Booth, R. H. Callum and F. Martin Thornton and was written by Leedham Bantock, Harold Simpson and Alfred de Manby. The detailed models of towns and buildings used in the film were made by Edward Rogers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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