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Santa Claus is a British film of genre Science fiction directed by George Albert Smith

Santa Claus

Santa Claus
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Length 1minutes
Genres Science fiction,    Fantasy
Rating63% 3.193513.193513.193513.193513.19351

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."
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