Classic Christmas Cartoons

[Thad Komorowski]

Since it's the holiday season, how many cartoons related to Christmas can we name? This not meaning small references like the "Christmas in July" gag, but actual cartoons related to the holidays.

Gift Wrapped (WB/1952)
The Night Before Christmas (MGM/1941)
Mice Meeting You (Paramount/1950)
Mister and Mistletoe (Paramount/1955)
True Boo (Paramount/1952)
Jumping with Toy (Paramount/1957)
Ski for Two (Universal/1944)
Pluto's Christmas Tree (Disney/1952)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (WB/1979)

There might be more, but I can't think of them at the moment. All of these are some of my personal favorites.


-Thad

[Tintin]

The Shanty Were Santy Claus Lieves (Warner/1933)
Fright Before Christmas (Warner/1979)
Toy Tinkers (Disney/1949)

Also a lot of Christmas gag:

Fresh Hare (Warner/1942)
Elmer disguise accidentaly on Santa Claus.

Fast and Furry-ous (Warner/1949)
"Merry Xmas" card.

Freeze Frame (Warner/1979)
"Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" cards at the end.

Putty Tat Trouble (Warner/1951)
Tweety say "Twismas".

[Pietro]

Here's an early one:

The Merry Dog (1932/Universal/Pooch the Pup)

-Pietro:D

[Thad Komorowski]

Martin, what I meant by listing the Bugs Bunny special was for all three of those shorts, "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Tales", "Freeze Frame", and "Fright Before Christmas". Hey, I just noticed something, these three shorts air in alphabetical order!


-Thad

[Tintin]

"Xmas and snow on july" gag cartoons:

Daffy Duck Hunt
A Mouse Divided
Feline Frame-up

[Argus Sventon]

The Pups' Christmas, MGM
Alias St. Nick, MGM
Peace on Earth, 1939 MGM
Santa's Surprise, 1947, Famous Studios/Paramount

[Jack]

"The Captain's Christmas" (MGM)
"Good Will To Men" (MGM) and
"Bedtime For Sniffles" (WB)



Jack :D

[Jon Cooke]

"Season's Greetinks" (Paramount / Popeye)
"One Ham's Family" (MGM)
"The Night Before Christmas" (Disney)
"Santa's Workshop" (Disney)
"Mickey's Good Deed" (Disney)
"Hector's Hectic Life" (Paramount)
"Christmas Comes But Once a Year" (Paramount / Grampy)
"Snow Foolin'" (Paramount / Screen Song)
"Mickey's Christmas Carol" (Disney)
"Mickey's Orphans" (Disney)


-Jon

[David Gerstein]

>Sigh!<
Nobody seems to remember MICKEY'S GOOD DEED, my favorite Christmas cartoon. And hey, I'm Jewish! I shouldn't be the guy who's gotta remind other people of Christmas cartoons! :D
The long-available tape JIMINY CRICKET'S CHRISTMAS contains this great cartoon, in case some of you may not have seen it or whatever.

[Tintin]

Daffy's Southern Exposure (Warner)

[Tintin]

I think also watch it's very longtime on Casper and Friends a Casper and a Herman & Katnip Christmas cartoon. Who's that the titles?

[David Gerstein]

Doggone you, Jon!
Between the time I wrote about MICKEY'S GOOD DEED and the time I posted the letter to the board, you beat me to including it in a list of your own favorites. And there I was saying no one had mentioned it... sheesh!

[Pietro]

There's a Christmas reference in "Lil' Aingil" Columbia's only Krazy Kat cartoon that was loyal to George Herriman's comic strip. The reference is when Ignatz Mouse wears a Santa Claus beard and makes a "fake" Christmas fund.

-Pietro:D

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Martin Juneau
I think also watch it's very longtime on Casper and Friends a Casper and a Herman & Katnip Christmas cartoon. Who's that the titles?

I listed that one in my first post, it's called "Mice Meeting You". It's available on the A Very Merry Casper Christmas tape, which is available at Amazon. I should know, I own the tape!


-Thad

[Bobby B]

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Jam Handy/directed by Max Fleischer)

[SloppyMoe]

Don't forget these two Christmas-themed Van Beuren shorts:

OPENING NIGHT (Aesop's Fables, with Cubby Bear)
CHRISTMAS NIGHT (starring Otto Soglow's Little King)

[Bobby B]

I also remember seeing, long ago, an early Walter Lantz color cartoon in which Santa's elves have to make him a new suit (with the aid of red paint and popcorn) because moths ate the old one. I think it had "Toyland" in the title.

[Larry T]

Is it "Toyland Broadcast"? I'd have to watch it again to remember-

Plus, I know it takes place in the wintertime, but does "Mickey's Pal Pluto" count? I can't remember if Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, and all the kittens are in front of a Christmas tree at the end or not..

There's also a Christmas reference in Lantz's "After the Ball".
There's also one in "An Itch In Time".

But everyone's forgetting a long-lost, spirit of Christmas rarity (which incidently, I've NEVER seen and it's at the top of my "MOST WANTED COLUMBIA CARTOONS " list called, "The Little Match Girl "..... directed by Arthur Davis and animated by Emery Hawkins....

Santa, if you're reading this, I've been a REALLY good boy this year..... ;)