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Released
1933 · FILM

The Night Before Christmas

Runtime
8 min
Animation

Synopsis

A narrator recites the opening lines of a classic poem as the scene shows the house at rest. Santa arrives by landing on the roof, descends the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys emerge and begin decorating the tree, with toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannons, a toy airplane stringing a garland in a skywriting-like motion, and toy firemen spreading snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top of the tree. At the same time, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter wakes the children, who quietly get up and go to look. The toys quickly return to their places, and Santa just manages to escape up the chimney in time.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 4

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Box Office

1933 · Box office

Produced on a $17K budget

Production budget

$17K

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