Christmas Cracker

19638 min 59 secFilm: Animation, Fiction

G

Direction: Norman McLarenJeff HaleGerald PottertonGrant Munro

Production: Tom Daly

A playful clown presents three segments on the theme of Christmas: paper cut-outs of two children dance to “Jingle Bells”; mechanical toys confront a hungry crocodile; and a man builds a rocket in order to pluck the most beautiful star from the sky to decorate his Christmas tree.

Other versions

Christmas CrackerCaprice de Noël

Subject categories

  • Literature and Language > Christmas Stories
  • Media Education > Film Animation
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage

Credits

director
Norman McLaren
Jeff Hale
Gerald Potterton
Grant Munro
executive producer
Tom Daly
music
Maurice Blackburn
Eldon Rathburn
cast
Grant Munro

Awards

  • First Prize - Best Animated Short AwardGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
  • Award of MeritLanders Associates Annual Awards
  • Grand Prize for the Animation TechniqueInternational Award of the Technical Cinema
  • Silver Squirrel - Second PrizeFilm Centrum Foundation Film Show
  • Grand Prize for Technique - Category: Films for ChildrenCinematographic Survey of the Nuclear Fair
  • Award of Exceptional MeritInternational Festival of Short Films