Christmas Cracker (short film)

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Movie
Original title Christmas crackers
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 9 minutes
Rod
Director Jeff Hale
Norman McLaren
Grant Munro
Gerald Potterton
production Tom Daly
for the National Film Board of Canada
music Maurice Blackburn
Eldon Rathburn

Christmas Cracker is a 1963 Canadian animated short film directed by Jeff Hale , Norman McLaren , Grant Munro and Gerald Potterton .

action

A clown presents the logo and the credits and appears between the individual film scenes.

Scene 1: A girl and a boy dance to jingle bells in the snow.

Scene 2: Tin toys become self-employed. A tin crocodile grabs a tin insect and devours a tin car, is circled by toy robots, but can escape.

Scene 3: A man has leaned his ladder against a Christmas tree, cuts a star for the top from a sheet of paper and sticks the white star on the top. The delicate music box that was playing up to now has now turned into heavy organ music. This dies away when the man tears up the star. He now tries out other tree tops - a pineapple, a beer bottle and a boot - and always brings out different melodies. He looks at the starry sky and sees a particularly bright star through the telescope. With the help of a complex machine, he travels to the sky and catches the star. When he wants to stick it on the Christmas tree, the star circles the tree several times as a shooting star and then flies back to the sky. The man shrugs his shoulders and cuts out another paper star. He then listens to the organ music with satisfaction.

production

Christmas Cracker , the French alternative title Caprice de Noël , was realized in different types of animation. Scene 1 was created in cut-out animation , scene 2 in stop motion and scene 3 in classic animation. The intermediate scenes with the clown are real film scenes.

Awards

Christmas Cracker was in 1965 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not free himself from The Pink Phink prevail.

At the San Francisco International Film Festival , the directors of the film were honored with the Golden Gate Award for the best short animation film.

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