Marti Fuerst's List: Public Domain Christmas/Holiday Movies

1964. The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.

When a park ranger tells two bear cubs about Christmas and Santa Claus, they want to skip hibernation to celebrate, but their mother doesn't believe in Saint Nick and wants them to sleep.

1970

Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

1934

Christmas Sing-a-long cartoon

Excited viewers will enjoy watching various animated animals participate in winter sports before breaking into song and following the bouncing ball to "Jingle Bells".

1949

Santa needs Rudolph's help on Christmas Eve.

1948

1959 US dubbed version of the classic 1957 animated Russian film Snezhnaya koroleva.
This version features the very sentimental Christmas introduction by Art Linkletter.
Features the voices of Sandra Dee, Louise Arthur, Tommy Kirk and Paul Frees.
Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen.

A 1955 one-hour television adaptation of the movie starring Thomas Mitchell as Kris, Macdonald Carey as Fred, Teresa Wright as Doris, and Sandy Descher as Susan. This version does not show the drunken Santa at all. Titled "The Miracle on 34th Street", it originally aired as an episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour. It was later re-run as "Meet Mr. Kringle".

Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. But in the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of another color.

1935