Fountaindale Public Library

A Christmas past, vintage holiday films, 1901-1925, [presented by] Worldview Entertainment and the Killiam Collection

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A Christmas past

[presented by] Worldview Entertainment and the Killiam Collection

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vintage holiday films, 1901-1925

This collection of nine enchanting silent films offers a nostalgic view into the Yuletide pleasures of the early 1900s. Evoking the Victorian charm of Currier and Ives prints, these picturesque comedies and tender dramas were produced as cinematic Christmas cards offered to moviegoers of the silent era

A holiday pageant at home (1901) (5 min.) / producer unknown -- A winter straw ride (1906) (7 min.) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; photographed by Edwin S. Porter -- A trap for Santa (1909) (16 min.) / Biograph Film Corp. ; directed by D.W. Griffith ; photographed by G.W. Bitzer -- A Christmas accident (1912) (15 min.) / 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) (14 min.) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; written by Frederick Arnold Kummer -- Santa Claus vs. Cupid (1915) (16 min.) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; directed by Will Louis ; written by Alan Crosland -- Santa Claus (1925) (29 min.) / 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) (9 min.) / Edison Film Manufacturing Corp. ; directed by Edwin S. Porter

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Vintage holiday films, 1901-1925