(1898) The first time Santa Claus was filmed.
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Try the ultimate tool to upscale the quality of vintage video to 4K: tinyurl.com/AIu... Considered as the very first Christmas movie and a technical marvel of its time, Santa Claus is an 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve.
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Music: 1898 version of Jingle Bells.
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All these years of milk and cookies have really done a number on santa. He used to be so thin.
Hahaha!
Oh, just imagine what hell look like in a thousand years! 😮💨
@@tylersouzaI think you mean 10 years.
Lol 😂
😂😂😂
Absolutely astonishing to realize this was filmed over 120 years ago. That blows my mind.
132 years actually
@@Antnj81 says 1898 so it was 126 years ago. If you wanted to be exact haha
And we’re literally watching it and discussing our opinions worldwide & they didn’t see the world coming to this lol
Proving that bloopers are timeless: 0:57 he tries putting something in one of the stockings and fails lol
Okay, fellas
Now there's no denial
SANTA WAS FINALLY CAUGHT IN 4K!!!!!!!!
Bwahahaha!
The youtube creators probably didn't realize how crucial it would become to future historians
UA-cam won't be around in 100 years, and besides, they're already starting to delete old videos now if the account hasn't logged in for 5 years to save server space.
@@Smartacus420 Thanks Debbie Downer!
@@abundantYOUniverse just stating facts, if anyone cares about historical records UA-cam is not the place for it.
@@Smartacus420 That's shameful.
That's why we MUST protect the web archive at ALL costs
While short, this is memorable.
It’s actually part of a longer silent film.
This really is a significant piece of history.
Santa claus have a history back to the byzantine empire what are you talking
This is so cute! A couple things that caught my attention: Santa was depicted differently back then, not fat, wearing a hood instead of a red hat. Also, the stockings were hung at the end of the children's bed, a British tradition, instead of hung over the chimney as we tend to do in the U.S.... makes me think this was filmed in England. I love how when Santa went to put whatever he had into the one stocking, and it fell out, he sort of waved as if to say, "Aw, to hell with it!" and left. 😂 Don't know if that was a blooper or not.
He was blowing a kiss goodbye
The Santa as he is depicted now in the USA was modeled and designed after a character from Coca Cola in 1931…there are so many versions and depictions of Santa throughout the world, though!
Santa Claus was brought to the United States by the Dutch colonists a very long time ago and was called Sinterklaas in Dutch. The Sinterklaas festival is still celebrated in the Netherlands. Coca Cola made a commercial version of it after World War II.
The colourisation is wrong here too! In Britain (and most of the world) Father Christmas was blue or green, never red!
@@RB-747 No. You are wrong. Maybe only in Britain. The original Santaclaus/Father Christmas/Sinterklaas was from origin Dutch, and was red and not blue or green!
Santa got filmed once and was like “Never again…”
My great-grandmother was born in 1898. She lived to be 100 so I can clearly remember her. When I realise the film is that old, I feel like a real time traveller. Thanks for uploading this! Happy New Year! 🎄🎅🍾🧨😘
125 years ago today, Merry Christmas and a happy new year 🎄🎅
Santa before hamburger, soda and milkshake, fit and in shape.
I'm pretty sure that soft drinks were available by this time. Still fascinating stuff!
…and before McDonald's!
Beautiful restored. You have done a great job. Santa Claus was brought to the United States by the Dutch colonists a very long time ago and was called Sinterklaas in Dutch. The Sinterklaas festival is still celebrated in the Netherlands. Coca Cola made a commercial version of it after World War II.
The spain coca cola web Page have the history of how the company helped consolidate the image that we all know.
the US page has nothing about it.
@@luizmpx833 True. Here in the United States, the most people don't know anything about the origins of Santa Claus.
and how, i was so shocked, that Dutch was a US Colonist long time ago, thought it was England all these time.
@@aguswahyukurniawan4820So, Dutch had another Plan this time!
Claus could also be derived from "Klaus" a German name, which IIRC can translate to "Nicholas". After all Santa Claus is based on the person of St. Nicholas.
Love it. You have to appreciate the effort for special effects with what they had to work with.
Weird to think that the little girl could be someone's great grandmother.
The girl looks like she was about 5, so she could have lived into the 1990's, Hopefully, she did.
3x grandmother
Those kids are probably deceased. That was over 125 years ago!
@@ronelite582Of course they are, that’s why they said great grandmother
Being born in the 1890s means she could easily be someone's greatgreatgreatgrandmother
The sfx seem really impressive to me given the time period.
It was probably a record. Back then films had to have sound recorded on a separate device or be paired with live music.
And they didn't even bother to lip sync, just music. Simpler times. ^^
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 1899!!🥳🎅🎉
125 years later we watch this film on youtube😉
The first Christmas film and to my surprise the jingles bells song was this old.
Jingle Bells was written in 1850 (yes, I cheated. Just looked it up)
The sound is added much later. There were no sound films until the late 20s.
To think, if you existed before 1900, you could've still watched this and heard this song. Early 1900's was very different, but in some ways still similar to now.
Santa's colors probably weren't red, in this film, they were either golden, silver or green. Still, an amazing piece of history.
Santa was red or green since the very beginning
@@nicolomanni822”it was not until the late part of the 19th century that the character adopted the red suit that was popular for Santa Claus in America, and so for much of the Victorian period, Father Christmas was often green.”
@@andreshernandez1180 I didn't even know that Santa wasn't wearing his standard suit with a short coat before. I thought that only Russian Ded Moroz wore long clothes.
idk this must've been filmed well after coca cola started its advertising
This was the very first Christmas movie ever made in history.
It’s like how it was pictured in Christmas books we read today
it's Amazing 1898 movie 😮
I love how Santa progressively became fatter as time went by.
Like me.
I was just thinking...my great grandmother was born in 1887, so she was 11 years old at this time. I remember sitting on her lap when I was a toddler and she was in her late 80s.
My grandpa was born in 1898, When my grandma died in 1960, they made a dual marker and on my grandpa's side, they put "1898 - 19__". Well, he died in 2000 so they had to redo the whole thing, all because some guy in 1960 was like "I'll save them some time." Haha!
@@Jeff98177well, rest in peace, but gotta love how he outlived their expectations!
@@meowmasterL346He got a HUGE kick out of it! He died late in 2000.
My Great-Grandmother was born in 1884. I used to visit her as a child. It's amazing really, the crossover with time. My father (86) remembers his great-grandfather who was born in 1848 and still around when he was a boy. So my Dad remembers someone who would have remembered people born in the 18th century. That's just amazing.
Santa: "OOP, should have put the Christmas Tree in after I went down!" :)
No autotune. Wonderful
This is nightmare fuel.
Expensive flowers in exchange of a couple of candies, (one dropped out of the sock). Santa was a great business man
Santa dropped the toy and was like wtf let it stay on the ground, Timmy has been a little terror all year anyway
I looooooove how creepy the world used to be!
Haha. I was thinking the same thing.
Me too. Santa was looks so creepy
Merci beaucoup !
Et joyeux Noël ❤
Also, Santa Claus was the first Mario ever
I thought Santa was Green Back then...
This video was colorized and upscaled using ai. The original footage was in black and white. I think the ai misundertood the color of santa during the 1900s probably because it got its database from google, which the majority of santa pics are red.
You can tell it was shot outdoors in the sun. They had no movie lighting then.
To think the same Santa will be visiting me tonight! My xmas list this year is: Socks
A Bible
A clementine
A teddy bear. (Even just one of these from Santa will be amazing) xx😊
Awww a Bible really? I might could help get a free one to you??
@@axemansjazz6670 Thank you!
@@mitchellerobersonThank you. I have a bible 🙂🙂
@@axemansjazz6670 I will be getting a teddy bear in the new year, but I did get the other two thing! It was a lovely day :)
@@axemansjazz6670 Thank you! Hope it was for you too and a happy new year!!
Happy New year, a!!
from Russia, with Love ❤️
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Santa Claus has long been making His Journey in His Sleigh, going down countless Chimneys, delivering millions of Toys to all the Boys and Girls who have been good! He is getting His Sleigh loaded right now, and readying all of His Reindeer. Children, remember to leave some Milk and Cookies if You have some, because Santa will get hungry delivering so many Toys!
Or, the first Toys R Us commercial.
Santa has aged well, it doesn't look like a day older than he does today.
Do we know that the suit was red? Some historians think it was Coca Cola that invented the red santa. This proves them wrong
No it was green but the creator probably didn’t know that.
There is a historian who published a paper on how psylocibin mushrooms may have played a role in the santa claus myth.
Supposedly a type of red capped with white spores Russian mushroom.
What surprises me the most is how old the christmas song is Ive heard it all my life and I wouldve never assumed the song went earlier than 1960
The sound probably was added to this much later or even just for UA-cam. There wasn't sound movies until 20 years after this
Did the grandmothers of the grandmothers' generation also engage in actions similar to those of the present, finding joy in making others happy?
I enjoy thinking about seasons that prompt such reflections☃️
Merry Christmas✨
Simply wonderful!
This took Santa completely by surprise.
Coke really set his modern image almost permanently.
How does this restauration work, did he really wear a red coat like the one coca cola invented?
Or shouldn't it be brown instead?
Hahaha...
I'd like to see the Santa deniers explain THIS one! 😈
so true
It’s hard to believe that only 10 years before this was filmed, Jack the Ripper was killing woman in London
Great !
I can observe that the presents back then were really thin not like nowadays.
This is from 132 years ago.
Let that sink in.
The special effects in this short are better than many Marvel films
Какой стильный Санта Клаус !👍
First I've seen it colorized. The colors really make it pop
I really like the transition to a dark room by cutting to a different set which has been painted dark
For some reason i saw the year as 1989 and immediately thought it was a school play...
Actual and definite proof of Santa Claus CLEARLY existing. Santa deniers HATE this channel!
😂the present fell out of the second stocking
Probably wasn't in red in 1898
Amazing
Merry Christmas from Ireland 🇮🇪
Sound is pretty good too
Thank you very much for giving me such rare classics. I would like to watch some early 9000s horror movies, would you please bring them on your next videos.
Phew! Was worried for a bit there but it ended well.
Just to clarify, videos did not exist in the 19th Century. Video technology only appeared in the last half of the 20th Century. This was filmed on FILM - probably 35mm format.
Wot ... no Betamax!🤣
Forgot about Betamax being around since 1886.@@vince-london
Awesome 👏
Why does time then make you feel such creepy vibes.
Because anything below the golden age of films seems ghostly.
Hmm, this certainly looks a lot like the version of this film that I stabilised, added music to and uploaded several years ago.
WOW! That was awesome and very wholesome. One question though. If this was a British short film, why did they call him Santa Claus? I thought British people calls him Father Christmas, no?
My kids are always excited to get up on Christmas morning and see Odin has visited and left them Christmas gifts to coincide with our ancestors' Yule celebration
Santa: Caught On Camera
My great great grandma was born in 1898
Amazing as always
I love this channel
19th century jingle bells 😮
Arthur Morgan was alive when this was filmed
Merry Xmas to everyone!
Advanced Happy new year!
Incredible!
Merry Christmas )
Filmed out doors in sunlight, many film studios did that during the early years.
Actual footage.
They probably needed a ton of light to film it so that’s why they shot this outside. That shabby green carpet? Why that’s just grass! I like that one of the toys fell out of the stocking and Santa was like “oh well, we ain’t reshooting this!”
And its 60fps? Wow
This is incredible, the world may be awful but im glad media like this isnt lost.
When was the colorization done ?
Yesterday.
@@XIXbacktolife Was red the color of Santa's gown or was that an executive decision ?
Cocacola really messed up santa's image.
My thoughts exactly in 1898 he`d have been wearing green.
@@brianshockledge3241 Nope. His outfit has been red at least since the 1800s.
Historians of the future, I introduce to you the debate about the colour of Santa's clothes!
I don't have the answer, either!
@@brianshockledge3241 No!
@@bartobruintjes7056 By that time he was sometimes shown in a red suit but traditionally it was green. It was to signify new life in the coming new year.
This is the old Pagan Yule Santa and how he was depicted but he was depicted in green or silver, but in Europe he was depicted thin in a robe and hood before he was depicted as a jolly fat Santa with a hat in the United States.
I think it looks better in its original black and white than color version. The colors blend all over the place. It looks odd.
First ever use of Picture in picture!
How do they know it was the first time. What if there was some dude down the street that took a vid of Santa 5 mins earlier...
Santa in his earlier years, before he gained all that weight!
wow
I watched the original the other night on TCM and it was a little bizarre.
I’m glad you made this restoration. But personally I would really have preferred it less “restored”. I don’t know the technical terms, but it’s much too smoothed out, with none of the original detail/grain, making it near impossible to see what you’re looking at sometimes. Especially faces.
HAPPY CHROSTMAS FELLAS 😜
What was Santa claus carrying? It looked like flowers
If this is a British film, then that's Father Christmas.