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Screencap from the film
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Directed by | George Albert Smith |
Starring |
Laura Bayley Harold Smith Dorothy Smith |
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1 min 16 secs |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
Santa Claus is a 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve. The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is believed to be the cinema's earliest known example of parallel action and, when coupled with double-exposure techniques that Smith had already demonstrated in the same year's The Mesmerist (1898) and Photographing a Ghost (1898), the result is one of the most visually and conceptually sophisticated British films made up to then."