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User: M-le-mot-dit

File: The Night Before Christmas (1905).webm

Author: Edwin Stanton Porter

Publisher: Edison Manufacturing Company

Year: 1905

PD: PD/US|1941

Note: An American silent short Christmas film directed which follows Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas.

Cat: Christmas film, Silent film

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00:00

TRADE MARK
Thomas A Edison

 

THE NIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS

 

PATENTED COPYRIGHTED 1905

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02:19

"The stockings were hung,
By the chimney with care.
In hope that Saint Nicholas,
Soon would be there."

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02:59

"The children were nestled,
All snug in their beds.
While visions of sugar-plums,
Danced in their heads."

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05:10

"Now Dasher! now Dancer!
Now Pranger and Viwen!
On! Comer; on! Cupid;
On! Dunder and Blitzen"

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06:16

"So up to the house-top,
The coursers they flew.
With sleigh full of toys
And Saint Nicholas too."

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07:27

"He has a broad face,
And a little round belly.
That shook when he laughed,
Like a bowl-full of jelly."

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08:27

Merry Christmas To All,
And To All A Good Night

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08:34

THE END