This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer Mabel Beaton and her husband Les for Bell Telephone Company and first aired in 1953. Following a short live-action opening portion, featured are two extended marionette segments, the first dramatizing Clement Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas", the second reverently telling the Nativity story; the two stories are staged in classic, traditional style. From 1953 onward, for several years, The Spirit of Christmas was broadcast in the intended region multiple times per holiday season. It was also available as a 16mm film licensed to schools for showings to students. This film often is misstated to have originally been broadcast in 1950.

When Emily, a struggling baker in a small town, receives a handmade Christmas Calendar from a secret...

On a snowy and cold Christmas Eve, Santa Claus accidentally steals the family Dog. So begins an epic...

A young boy discovers on Christmas Eve that he can hear the beautiful voice of the angel residing at...

Emily (Sarah Paulson) and Ben (Eric Mabius) find their plans to marry on Christmas day coming apart ...

Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. ...

It’s Christmas Eve, and Leland Jeppson’s hope is gone. Struggling to get by in their rustic homestea...

Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfath...

Jangle is a spirit of Halloween, Jingle is a spirit of Christmas! What happens when they meet and sh...

Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also k...

Christmas-mad kid Henry tries to bring some much-needed cheer into a lonely old lady’s life in this ...

Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his ...

One Christmas Eve, Santa makes a big mistake. He leaves a little girl's doll and stuffed cat at the ...

Santa's sled crash-lands in the desert where some children and a herd of magic camels help get him b...

This once-lost 1981 holiday special has now become a WPIX holiday tradition!

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...

During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited...

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accoun...

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother...

Norwegian short film about a carpenter trading places with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.