For those that celebrate, Merry Christmas! And if you don’t, I hope you enjoy these fun little films today anyway.

Thanks to everyone for visiting Cartoon Research and contributing to the community here. It makes this place a lot of fun to keep writing each week. I’m having so much fun working on restoring a lot of animation, and I’m so happy to be able to write about all this stuff each week here. Again, thanks.

And today’s stuff!

Here’s a little Christmas film that was most likely made for the home movie market — or perhaps it’s a really early theatrical snipe that made its way down to 16mm. Either way, it’s clearly late 20s or early 30s. No idea who made it.

Jerry suggested that it would be fun to put up some vintage tags and theatre snipes. Here’s a whole reel of them, included this year on the Christmas Cartoon Candy special disc (at the Thunderbean Shop). I really love this sort of stuff— even though this reel has an extended section with a whole series of cards for local businesses. There’s only one of these that I’ve seen before, so it’s a pretty fun little reel.

And, lastly, a repeat — but something worth repeating again. We featured this a few years back, and it’s one of my favorite things to watch around Christmas. It’s a little film produced but The Old King Cole Display company, touting their successful 1935 window displays. It’s lovely and magical:

Wishing everyone here happy holidays!