A “real life” family celebrating Christmas, show their children a film “Toyland”, a Paul Terry Toon cartoon presented by Castle films, showing all the children’s favourite characters and Father Christmas distributing Christmas presents. Ends up with the “real life” family singing and wishing you, the audience, a Merry Christmas to all.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
310896
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Animation (Cinematography)
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Christmas
Childrens Films → Children 6-12
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Christmas
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)