Santa's Workshop (film)
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Directed by | Wilfred Jackson |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Allan Watson-Santa Claus Pinto Colvig-Santa’s Secretary Walt Disney-Elf Frank Geiger |
Music by | Frank Churchill[1][2] |
Animation by | Marvin Woodward Les Clark Art Babbitt Norm Ferguson Ben Sharpsteen Tom Palmer Joe D'Igalo Harry Reeves Hamilton Luske Louie Schmitt Dick Williams Paul Fennell Chuck Couch Fred Moore Jack King Ed Love Jack Kinney Jack Cutting Nick George Clyde Geronimi George Drake Eddie Donnelly[3] |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Santa's Workshop is a Disney short film directed by Wilfred Jackson, first released on December 10, 1932[4] in the Silly Symphonies series. The film features Santa Claus and his elves preparing for Christmas in Santa's workshop. A sequel, The Night Before Christmas, partially based on the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", was made the year after, portraying Santa leaving the toys in a house with nine children.[5]
In Sweden and Norway, Santa's Workshop is part of the Christmas television special From All of Us to All of You, traditionally shown on Christmas Eve. Various stereotypes in the film have been censored several times.[6]
Santa's Workshop is the first "Silly Symphonies" titled cartoon to develop with RCA's Photophone synchronization early-in-film sound system.
The short features the first of the Marches Militaires by Franz Schubert.
Voice cast[]
- Santa Claus: Walter Geiger
- Deep-voice gnome: Jesse Delos Jewkes
- Santa's secretary: Pinto Colvig
- Santa's second helper: Walt Disney[7]
Home media[]
The short was featured on early VHS releases of A Walt Disney Christmas, which featured the uncut scene with the blackface doll.
The short was released on December 19, 2006 on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two[7] in the "From the Vault" section, because of the blackface doll.[8]
The short was remastered in HD and released on Disney+ on November 12, 2019, with the blackface doll scene removed. It was originally claimed by Disney+ that the short was presented as originally released, but this claim has since been removed from the streaming service.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Santa's Workshop (1932) – Crew". Swedish Film Database. Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Walt Disney julfavoriter". d-zine.se (in Swedish). Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Disney's "Santa Workshop" (1932) |".
- ^ "Santa's Workshop (1932) – Release dates". Swedish Film Database. Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 273–274. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ Edman, Nils (December 14, 2012). "Därför klippte Disney bort den svarta dockan" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ a b Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 152–153. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
- ^ Figueiredo, Rodney. "Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies". Animated Views. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
External links[]
- Santa's Workshop at IMDb
- Santa's Workshop at disneyshorts.org
- Santa's Workshop on YouTube
- 1932 films
- English-language films
- 1932 short films
- 1930s color films
- 1932 animated films
- American Christmas films
- Animated Christmas films
- 1930s Disney animated short films
- American films
- Films directed by Wilfred Jackson
- Films produced by Walt Disney
- Disney controversies
- Santa Claus in film
- Silly Symphonies
- Films about elves
- Films scored by Frank Churchill
- American black-and-white films
- 1930s Christmas films
- Race-related controversies in animation
- Race-related controversies in film
- Censored films
- Disney animated film stubs
- Christmas film stubs