Santa's Workshop (film)

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]

Santa's Workshop
Directed byWilfred Jackson
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringAllan Watson-Santa Claus
Pinto Colvig-Santa’s Secretary
Walt Disney-Elf
Frank Geiger
Music byFrank Churchill[1][2]
Animation byMarvin Woodward
Les Clark
Art Babbitt
Norm Ferguson
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 processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • December 10, 1932 (1932-12-10) (United States)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

In Sweden and Norway, Santa's Workshop is part of the Christmas television special From All of Us to All of You, traditionally shown at 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 Marche Militaires by Franz Peter 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 the 2006 Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set More Silly Symphonies.[7] The film is included in the extra "From the Vault" section, because of racial stereotypes among the toys.[8] The short was remastered in HD and released on Disney+ November 12, 2019 with the blackface doll scene removed; despite Disney+ claiming that the short was presented as originally released. Disney has since removed this claim from the streaming service.

References
  1. "Santa's Workshop (1932) – Crew". Swedish Film Database. Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  2. "Walt Disney julfavoriter". d-zine.se (in Swedish). Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  3. http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-santa-workshop-1932/
  4. "Santa's Workshop (1932) – Release dates". Swedish Film Database. Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  5. 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.
  6. Edman, Nils (December 14, 2012). "Därför klippte Disney bort den svarta dockan" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  7. 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. 86–87. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
  8. Figueiredo, Rodney. "Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies". Animated Views. Retrieved July 14, 2019.


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