Santa Claus (1898 film)

Santa Claus

Screencap from the film
Directed by George Albert Smith
Starring Laura Bayley
Harold Smith
Dorothy Smith
Release dates
  • September 1898 (1898-09)
Running time
 1 min 16 secs
Country United Kingdom
Language Silent
Santa Claus

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 double-exposure 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 then."[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Brooke, Michael. "Santa Claus". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  2. ↑ Fisher, David. "Santa Claus". Brightonfilm.com. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

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