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Christmas Cracker
19638 min 59 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
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.
Availability
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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