Worlds first Christmas Movie ( Santa Clause 1898 Original film unedited and unchanged)
For all you film history buffs out there here s a little surprise for you all. Some background about the movie (from Wikipedia) Santa Claus is a 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve. The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, is believed to be the cinema s earliest known example of parallel action and, when coupled with doubleexposure techniques that Smith had already demonstrated in the same year s The Mesmerist (1898) and Photographing a Ghost (1898), the result is one of the most visually and conceptually sophisticated British films made up to
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