Product Description

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Genre: Children's Video
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22299 in DVD
• Brand: SANTA CLAUS
• Released on: 2005-09-06
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 55 minutes

Amazon.com
This 53-minute, 1970 animated film may be the most delightful of those sundry, stop-motion animated Christmas perennials that show up on television during the holidays. The clay animation production, boasting a wonderful musical score and art direction that occasionally underscores the flower-power era in which it was born, tells the story of Santa's origins, in which Kris Kringle decides to get toys into the hands of poor children in gloomy Sombertown. Charmingly narrated by Fred Astaire and featuring voices by Mickey Rooney and Keenan Wynn, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town presents a nice bridge between two generations of entertainment, the classic and the hip. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Hilarious. Should be MST3k'd
I loved this as a kid. So I figured I'd get it for my kids. And they liked it too, despite the hilariously hokey special effects (hokey to them), so that's why I gave it 3 stars.

But for me, for all the christmas specials, this is the worst.

I couldn't believe the "Sit on my lap" song. Really. Some strange creep comes to town and trades kisses and lap sitting for toys - he should have been arrested for that alone.

And then the way they tied everything to the song was really irritating. Plus, why did the young man have an old man's voice? Annoying.

CLASSIC
Just like I remembered it when I was a kid. My son (11) also enjoyed it alot! The figures are still a great way to do animation.

Wonderful
This is a special, touching Christmas video. Wonderful for the kids and to add to your Christmas collection