Santa Claus Is Coming Tonight

197412 min 15 secFilm: Animation, Fiction

G

Direction: Pierre Hébert

Production: Gaston Sarault

A combination of live-action footage and animation creates a film that is an effective reminder that Christmas is fast disappearing under a mountain of crass commercialism: Santa Clauses that operate on a tight time schedule, a landscape shorn of evergreens, a cornucopia of toys and gadgets, and a cacophony of noise. The story is biting, the drawings are pointed, and the feast of Christmas stands divested of its slick trappings.

Other versions

Père Noël, père Noël

Subject categories

  • Literature and Language > Christmas Stories
  • English Language Arts > Children's Stories/Fables
  • Media Education > ConsumerismPopular Culture
  • Health/Personal Development > Identity
  • Science > Life Systems/Ecology
  • History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage

Credits

director
Pierre Hébert
characters
Suzanne Gervais
Michèle Pauzé
backgrounds
Suzanne Gervais
Michèle Pauzé
editing
Pierre Bernier
recording
Roger Lamoureux
re-recording
Michel Descombes
Roger Lamoureux
producer
Gaston Sarault