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Santa Claus in film
Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus abound and apparently constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre.〔()〕 Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children. In 1897, in a short film called ''Santa Claus Filling Stockings'', Santa Claus is simply filling stockings from his pack of toys. Another film called ''Santa Claus and the Children'' was made in 1898. A year later, a film directed by George Albert Smith in titled ''Santa Claus'' (or ''The Visit from Santa Claus'' in the United Kingdom) was created. In this picture, Santa Claus enters the room from the fireplace and proceeds to trim the tree. He then fills the stockings that were previously hung on the mantle by the children. After walking backward and surveying his work, he suddenly darts at the fireplace and disappears up the chimney. ''Santa Claus' Visit'' in 1900 featured a scene with two little children kneeling at the feet of their mother and saying their prayers. The mother tucks the children snugly in bed and leaves the room. Santa Claus suddenly appears on the roof, just outside the children's bedroom window, and proceeds to enter the chimney, taking with him his bag of presents and a little hand sled for one of the children. He goes down the chimney and suddenly appears in the children's room through the fireplace. He distributes the presents and mysteriously causes the appearance of a Christmas tree laden with gifts. The scene closes with the children waking up and running to the fireplace just too late to catch him by the legs. A 1909 film by D. W. Griffith titled ''A Trap for Santa Claus'' shows children setting a trap to capture Santa Claus as he descends the chimney, but instead capture their father who abandoned them and their mother but tries to burglarize the house after he discovers she inherited a fortune. A twenty-nine minute 1925 silent film production titled ''Santa Claus'', by explorer/documentarian Frank E. Kleinschmidt, filmed partly in northern Alaska, feature Santa in his workshop, visiting his Eskimo neighbors, and tending his reindeer. A year later, another movie titled ''Santa Claus'' was produced with sound on De Forest Phonofilm.〔()〕 Over the years, various actors have donned the red suit (aside from those discussed below), including Monty Woolley in ''Life Begins at Eight-thirty'' (1942), Alberto Rabagliati in ''The Christmas That Almost Wasn't'' (1966), Dan Aykroyd in ''Trading Places'' (1983), Jan Rubes in ''One Magic Christmas'' (1985), David Huddleston in ''Santa Claus: The Movie'' (1985), Jonathan Taylor Thomas in ''I'll Be Home for Christmas'' (1998), and Ed Asner in ''Elf'' (2003). Later films about Santa vary, but can be divided into the following themes.
==Origins in film==
Some films about Santa Claus seek to explore his origins. They explain how reindeer fly, where elves come from, and other questions children have generally asked about Santa. Two Rankin/Bass stop motion animation television specials addressed this issue: the first, ''Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town'' (1970), with Mickey Rooney as the voice of Kris, reveals how Santa delivered toys to children despite the fact that the evil Burgermeister Meisterburger had forbidden children to play with them; and the second, ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'' (1985), based on L. Frank Baum's 1902 children's book of the same name, follows Santa's being reared by a collection of mythical creatures who grant him immortality. Another animated version of Baum's book was made by Glen Hill in 2000, and the book also served as the basis for an anime series, ''Shounen Santa no Daibôken'' (''Young Santa's Adventures'') in 1994 and ''The Oz Kids'' video, ''Who Stole Santa?'' (1996). None of these films focus on Santa Claus's saintly origins.
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