Silent films with original music soundtrack. "From original 35mm elements provided by the Killiam Collection"--Container.
Contents:
A holiday pageant at home (1901) / producer unknown -- A winter straw ride (1906) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. -- A trap for Santa (1909) / Biograph Film Corp. ; directed by D.W. Griffith -- A Christmas accident (1912) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; directed by Bannister Merwin ; written by Annie Eliot Trumbull. The adventure of the wrong Santa Claus : an adventure of Octavius, amateur detective (1914) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; written by Frederick Arnold Kummer -- Santa Claus vs. Cupid (1915) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; directed by Will Louis ; written by Alan Crosland -- Santa Claus (1925) / presented by Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Kleinschmidt -- A Christmas carol (1910) (10 min.) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp ; from the novel by Charles Dickens -- The night before Christmas (1905) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Summary:
Silent vignettes of the Christmas holiday season, digitally remastered.
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