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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1489

The Night Before Christmas

19059 minUnited States

Synopsis

Children hang their stockings and struggle to settle down while Santa finishes his preparations. A sleigh journey brings him to the family's roof, where he enters through the chimney and leaves the presents.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 8:43
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Director: Edwin S. Porter · Public domain

DirectorsEdwin S. Porter

Inspirations

The film follows the poem commonly known as Twas the Night Before Christmas. Miniatures and a painted background carry the sleigh across the landscape and past the Moon.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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