Today,
Children everywhere are making preparations for
an event of world shaking significance.
The annual visit of Santa Claus
informed sources report legions of junior citizens
are making monumental efforts not to cry
and not to bout.
Meanwhile,
letters by the thousands have been flooding postal facilities at the North Pole.
Oh,
so
bad
dark gun thing always conks out when you
Well, hello there. Uh
My name's special delivery, Kluger SD for short.
Oh, I've got lots of letters for Santa today
and every year they're the same.
Some ask for toys
but a lot ask questions
like you take this one.
I bet one of you wrote it, dear,
Sarah. Why you
wear a
red suit?
Uh huh.
I thought so. And this one, my turn
dear Sarah. Why do you come down the chimney when I'm asleep? How about these?
Why do you have whiskers? Why do you live at the North Pole? Why do you leave presents?
Why you always come on? Why is your
why? So
Kay
Chris
King
now hold on, hold on.
I can answer all your questions because I know everything about Santa.
Now, Santa is a busy man. He
has no time to,
he's got millions and millions of stockings to fill on Christmas Day.
So you better write your letter now
and mail it right away
because he's getting rid of
with his reindeers and his slaves
there to watch out. You better not cry.
You better not pout. I'm telling you why.
So you want to know all about Santa.
Best place to start is at the very beginning
when Santa was just a little baby. You mean Santa was once
a
baby? Of course, everybody's got to be a baby at least once in their lives.
Now, this was years and years ago, all way back
in one of the northern countries, there was a small city called Sum.
It was a cold,
cold place which shivered in the shadows of
the strange mountain of the whispering wind.
Now, the main reason for all this gloom was the mayor,
a mean old grouch of a fellow who was known as Burgermeister
Meister
Burger.
He Burgermeister
Herberger
Meister. Look what was discovered on your front. Stoop. What, what? Grimsley?
The milk, the daily paper. No, sir. A baby.
Oh, is that all
people
can
be a baby? And there's a note,
please sir. Take care of my child and
protect him from the dangers of the mountain of the whispering winds.
He will be exceptional if only given the love. He needs a burger. Meister
Meister
burger. Take care of a baby.
Outrageous.
What's its name? This is the only clue, sir.
It says
clause.
No. Take the little, uh, baggage to the orphan asylum.
That's the proper place for foundlings anyway.
Get the bread out of here.
Oh,
the sleigh. It broke away. Oh, my goodness.
Where are you baby claw?
Oh, do come back, come back.
Well,
that strange wind blew the little slave right
up to the mountain of the whispering winds.
Well, you see that mountain was the home of the awful, the terrible,
oh, I hate to even say his name.
That mountain was the home of the
winter warlock.
The strange hermit of the north
who lived alone in a ghostly palace of ice,
practicing his strange spells and snowy incantations.
The animals knew they had to hide that baby and fast.
They knew where that baby belonged so quick as they could. They started on their way.
Where, where,
well, you see just beyond the mountain was Rainbow River Valley.
And there by a bend in the magical stream
was the home of a jolly family of little people.
Elves. You might call them
Kringle was their name.
The door was answered by an elf named Dingle
Dingle Cringle. To be precise. Yes. Who's there?
There's who?
Oh,
wiggle my ears and tickle my toes. Methinks. I see a baby's nose.
It's more than a nose. There's a whole baby attached to it.
Better call my brothers Wingle. Bingo. Dingo. Dingo. What is it? Dingo? It's a baby.
Dingo, a baby. We
wo a baby baby.
Ko, I like babies. Bingo, our
baby, the best baby of them all
wo
they brought the little fellow to the queen
Tac
Cringle.
Baby. What a splendid idea.
He shall live with us and sleep with us and drink warm coke with us.
What will we call him?
TTE Kringle.
His license says clause unusual name.
However, we should call him Chris. Chris Kringle.
Well, those little Kringles took that baby to their hearts.
As soon as he was old enough,
they set up a little school and taught him all the important things,
how to read and write
and talk
and count stars on a crystal night and how to make toys, make toys. Oh, sure.
That was the Kringle's main occupation.
They were toy maker.
The only problem
was there were no Children to give them to
you.
Remember, summer time was on the other side of the mountain of the whispering winds
and the little elves just couldn't make it past the winter warm.
So
the toys kind of stacked up some.
It's really quite sad.
We will never be able to transport our toys over the mountain someday.
When I'm bigger, I'll take them for you.
Tota Kringle. That will be the day. We will be great toy makers again as we once were.
When was that
Tota?
Oh, years and years ago, the Kringles were world renowned for, you know,
we were the very first royal toy makers, the first toy maker to the
a
responsibility.
When you accept an appointment from his majesty,
you must strive for just the purpose.
All the
first toy maker to the king,
soldiers must stand erect for the kingdom.
They protect the balls must bounce much higher if they're to please his royal sire,
the ballerinas must peer wet upon their musical toes and
the clowns must make a king forget all his king
was.
You accept an appointment from his magic?
You must try
with just the perfect wallet.
Good to
the sailboats must never sink.
And the dollies always think the teddy bears be furry. If they're to gain his Roy,
the jacking boxes must always pop and every reader comes
and the kangaroos must learn to hop into
the prince's hand
sponsor.
When you accept an appointment from his magic,
you must strive for just a
well.
So that's why he makes such wonderful toys.
That's why the kringles taught him everything they knew.
Of course, Chris had other teachers,
the
animals,
but the seals taught him the most important things how to have fun and
oh,
ho
ho ho ho how to laugh
real hard and wonderful like he meant it. Ho
ho ho ho.
Well, years went by and finally Chris was a fine young man.
I'm a man now, Tanta,
I can take those toys across the mountain of the Whispering Winds.
It would be nice if someone played with our ties.
If only one of my dollies could be held tight by a little girl. It's decided then
tomorrow
I leave for somber town
kind of cringle.
Uh, I was just packing.
Did I wake you up? I was awake anyhow, I made this for your trip. A real
cringle suit. So that's where he got the red suit.
Yep.
And he's always worn one just like it
right to this day.
Well, Chris said goodbye to all his friends, Elf and animal
just as night was falling.
Chris started to make his way through the dismal forest
which lay at the foot of the Warlock's mountain.
What,
why you're a penguin? Ah, well,
what is a penguin doing here?
You're looking for a stick,
a branch,
a log, a
pole,
the north pole.
No,
the south pole.
Well, little fella that's on the other end of the earth.
You're just about as lost as you could get.
You better travel with me. You need someone to take care of you.
Now, now, cut that out. Come on
topper.
I'll call you topper.
Ok.
Come on
this way. Little fella.
Hey,
there is
long
and
go back.
Oh, you are
to,
come on topper.
I shall get him when he returns.
He's got to cross my mountain on the way home.
Um,
are
being
nice guy.
Yeah,
we made a topper
and,
and look somber town
just sitting there waiting for us and our good cringle toys.
That's what they thought.
But what they didn't realize was at that very moment
in the somber Town City Hall. His honor.
Two
Meister
burger.
Ok.
As I suspected you've broken your funny bone.
Oh. What caused me to trip grisly?
Listen.
Well,
a toy,
as I suspected,
I hate toys
and toys hate me. Either they are going or I am going and I am certainly not going
cleans.
I have a job for you to do. Now take this down.
It's a difficult responsibility
that you accept from. The number one lawmaker me
have it known throughout the land from sea to sea.
No more toy make us to the king.
The thin soul just melt them down.
Wash the face of every clown. Each bouncing ball deflated.
No, I don't want to debate it.
The ballerina superior.
We
arrest their musical to
outlaw the dolls and sink the boats they bring
he was.
It's our responsibility
that you except for the number one lawmaker me
have it known throughout the land from sea to sea.
No more toy make outs to the keys.
Every jack in the box be sealed
till my wounded pride, be healed. Stuffed animals, unstuff em.
When a child objects they
off em.
No more drummers who write
a tat
tat, no
buglers who
don't let me see another toy
or you will feel my boot
so
difficult responsibility
that he extracts from the number one lock keeper. Me
be it known throughout the land from sea to sea.
Boys are hereby declared illegal immoral unlawful.
And
anyone found with a toy in his possession
will be placed under arrest and thrown in the dungeon
makeup.
Now, holding back. Now
give me all your toys. By order of the Burgermeister.
I can't.
Whoa,
ho ho. The townspeople didn't know what to make of Chris.
Hi there.
Nice day. Friend. Don't hire me.
Good morning, ma'am.
You are to be ashamed of yourself young man wearing such outlandish clothes.
Clothes.
Look, all I wanna do is give away these toys, toys, toys
to
get them
out of here.
Hello?
No.
What did I say?
Well, what's going on here? We're doing our chores. Yeah. No more. Playing.
No playing. Hey,
are you washing out
stockings?
Uh huh.
It's one of our daily duties. Then we hang them by the fireplace.
So they dry overnight.
That's the only way they judge you around here by how
many chores you do and how clean your stockings are?
Does that so?
Well, I,
you don't have to look so gloom about it. Why?
I don't know, I just don't like sour faces. I got some real nice goodies for you.
But not if you look like this,
you better watch out. You better not cry better, not pout. Why I'm telling you why?
Yeah, because I came to town
and look what I brought
toys. Real toys. Why? Sure.
Compliments of the Kringles.
But what about the Burgermeister?
What about him if he wants a toy. He may have one.
I'll save him a big red yo,
yo.
Come on, let's play. Yeah. Come
on.
Wait,
you must not play with toys. And who are you? That's Miss Jessica.
Our new schoolteacher, Chris Kringle. At your service, Miss Jessica.
How dare you come here in those ridiculous clothes and make fun of me clothes again.
I wasn't making. And what do you mean by giving the Children toys?
Don't, you know, toys are against the law yet? It's true.
Well, gee, that's kind of a silly law. If the Berger
Meister saw you, we would all be in great danger, in danger from toys.
Why? That's the silliest thing I ever heard.
Toys are frivolous, impractical, unproductive. And
what's that for you?
A china doll?
I always wanted one when I was a little girl,
but my parents wouldn't
thank you.
I mean, watch out for that dolly. She's a hardened criminal out here.
Well, maybe it is a silly law. I mean,
oh, what do you say? You help me hand out these presents?
It's too big a job for one oversized cringle and a little lost penguin.
Oh, what a good girl.
Oh, what a good ball.
What a big smile.
All because of a tall,
if you sit on my lap today, a kiss. A toy is the price you'll pay
when you tell what you wish for in a whisper. Be prepared to pay.
You sit on my lap
a kiss a toy is the price you
and you sit on my left knee. Don't be stingy and be prepared to pay
if, whenever you
give a little
whoever you love,
we give a little love back.
I, so
get out.
I
thought you have a little,
you
be saying
you said,
ok. A
kiss
of
toy is the price.
Ah, a perfect day. Everybody is glum.
Ah, see all the little Children are playing with their toys,
playing with their toys. Start,
hello,
you bats are under.
Take them away.
Don't arrest those Children.
It was my fault.
I gave them the toys. You,
how dare you?
You are obviously a nonconformist and a rebel me rebel.
Arrest this man immediately
for you
to
judge
a
yo,
yo.
I love yo, yos.
I used to be able to do all kinds of tricks.
Excuse me, sir.
But you're breaking your own laws. What, what do you think? What did you
do?
Who I have been bamboozled?
Asked him. Asked him.
Oh, look, he climbs like a squirrel leaps like a deer
and is as slippery as a seal
after him.
He went into the woods.
We'll never find him in there.
Yes, we lost him. Tupper.
And I slowed down. Now,
we
wonder where we are.
You are trespassing on the lands
of the winter warlock.
Hey.
Hey, let go
go.
Mm. Chris King.
You disturbed me for the very last time.
No, I have you
get away
and
no
look, uh, before you do me in,
would you tell your tree friends to let me loose for a second?
You see, I, I have something for you. What is this a
trick? Oh, no, sir, Mr Warlock, or may I call you winter Mr
Warlock if you please?
Well, I managed to save one little toy
and I'd like you to have it.
You,
if you wish to give me
a present,
a
toy. Yes, sir. But
nobody ever gives me an old warlock,
a toy. I'd like to start a new customer
if you just call
up.
Uh.
00, yeah, that.
Oh,
yes, of course.
But you mustn't mind the tree monsters. Their bark is worse than their bite.
The bark is worse than their bite.
Hey, uh, uh, Willie. Well,
Peter Pine
release the cringle
and no tricks now. 00, no, no, sir, Mr Wall.
Uh,
Choo,
you
and I've always wanted one.
What's that?
My, I see hard.
It's melting.
Well, look, Mr Warlock, please, please
call me winter, winter. Oh, yes. Yes.
Suddenly my whole outlook has changed
from bad to good. Great. Ah,
but will it last?
I really am a mean and despicable creature at heart. You know,
it's so difficult to
really change difficult.
Why, why look here, changing from bad to good is as easy as
taking your first step,
put 1 ft in front of the other
and soon you'll be walking across the floor
1 ft in front of the other.
Soon you'll be walking out the door.
You never will get where you're going
if you'd never get up on your feet.
Come on, there's a good tail wind blowing
a fast walking man is hard to beat.
What one
in front of the other
and soon you'll be walking across the
what one
right
up
and soon you'll be walking out
or
if you want to change your direction,
if your time of life isn't,
oh,
the exception.
Good way to start is to stand,
put 1 ft in front of
and soon you'll be walking across the floor,
put 1
ft
in front of the
and so
walk in and out.
If I want to change the reflection,
I see.
Oh, you do
mean that it's just my election
vote for a chance to be reported
but
one
in
front
of the other and
soon
one
cross the floor
or you put one
and
of the other.
You are walking out
in
the
and soon you are walking across
him
to
all
that.
Well, there's,
there's all kinds of ways we can help each other. You can bring me nice new toys and
I can assist you with my magic.
How
I'll show you
gaze into my magic crystal snowball.
Someone
is looking for you,
Jessica.
Go to her land.
Oh, only me, ma'am. I thought I'd never find you again.
I wanted to bring you these
letters and notes from the Children of somber town, asking for more toys.
You see
the Burgermeister destroyed the ones you brought.
You tell those young uns,
there'll be plenty of toys but only if they behave themselves,
no crying or pouting or
no. I, I'll, I'll know
I got ways of knowing
my uh
personal friend. The warlock taught me this. Yes, sir.
I can see them when they're sleeping.
I
know when they're awake. My goodness.
You know, if they're bad or good. Uh, so you tell them to be good
for goodness sake. Oh, thank you, Chris for what? For being so kind
for just being you.
Golly.
Now, uh,
about the toys,
I'll have to kind of slip them in after dark when the berger
meister is asleep.
So you tell all the boys and girls to leave their doors unlocked tomorrow night?
Well, Chris went back to the Kringles to get some more toys.
And what do you think those crazy Kringles did?
Yes, sir. They all moved in on all winter lock stock and toy books.
I guess they figured it made sense to move the source of supply close to the demand.
No, I'm crowded
but,
but at least I loved Chris made a list of all the Children and the toys they wanted.
He checked it over once, then checked it over twice.
He tried to figure out just who was naughty and who was nice.
Well, I guess they're all pretty nice. So he packed up and was off to cow.
When Chris was safe inside Satan,
he tried all the doors and if they were open,
he knew a child lived inside who was expecting a toy.
This is outrageous toys, toys everywhere.
What sort of criminal is this? Cringle
sneaking into houses by night?
I hereby decree that all the town's doors and
windows will be locked tight against this parlor.
Well, more and more letters came for Chris from the Children.
Jessica would gather them together and then give
them to the animals who would deliver them.
And Chris, well, he just couldn't turn anybody down,
but this time he found all the doors were locked in.
Now, there was one special toy he just had to deliver,
Susie, a tiny little girl who was very, very sick, had asked Chris for a toy.
Noah's Ark.
Chris just couldn't disappoint her
Tober.
What is it?
Do you have an idea
how to get into the house? But not through the door?
The sky,
the moon,
the stars,
the chimney go down the chimney.
Great idea.
Well,
here goes.
And that's how he started going down chimneys. Oh, now, I understand.
That's fun.
What a great job I've got.
Come on. There's a lot more chimneys to explore tonight.
00.
More toys discovered by the hearts and the mantelpieces.
Each house in
Samba
Town will be searched before dawn.
If any more toys are found by the fireplace, they will be confiscated.
And the Children severely punished,
so be it.
But those letters just kept right on coming.
Dog's gone. How can I get the toys to them? They gotta have toys.
Otherwise their life will be nothing but
school and chores and washing their stockings and
the stockings,
the stocking
take this to Jessica.
She'll know what to tell the Children
hold,
search the premises.
If you find so much as one marble or half a jack, your house is under arrest.
Double time.
We can't find anything here. Burgermeister.
Good. Very good. No toys. Nothing but drying stocking
as is proper
about
for
much
up, up, up.
Oh,
thank heaven. There were no toys.
And that's how he started leaving presents in stockings.
Four toys.
But how
no,
you bless it on my phone.
I will do what I should have done a long time ago.
I will set a trap for that bottles. Some cringle.
His next visit to Samba
Town will be his last.
Oh,
no, I must warn Chris,
but she was too late.
Chris had already left with his toys.
Oh, Mr Warlock Winter, please. You must help me stop Chris. Please use your magic.
Oh,
my lass.
I've been
disenchanted.
I have no more powers.
I can't even do card tricks.
Oh, that's terrible. What should we do? Nobody is going to do anything.
You are all under arrest for defying the law and
making toys and for being an accomplice to public enemy.
Number one,
Chris Kringle.
To the dungeon?
Oh, I tell you things didn't look good.
And meanwhile back in somber town
stop, you are under arrest,
not me.
Wait,
look. 000,
what can I do?
You have
to the dungeon
Children of Somber
town?
You will never,
never play
again.
Well, sir, it looked like Chris was finally beaten.
Her
Burgermeister. Please. You must set Chris and the little Kringles free.
Set them free.
Never. I promise they will never disturb you again.
What good are your promises? Goodbye.
Good luck and good
riddance. My own town turned against me.
Well,
my eyes are beginning to open for the very first time to what life is really all about.
And I know just where I belong
with Chris
wherever he is
today is not the end.
It's only the beginning
is
sudden
of this
is he
asked
a
yes.
And
this beginning
is
sw
thing.
The
thanks,
but it's
things are gonna start
little kid.
Yes.
Way
of this pain
to.
Oh
music.
Well,
Jessica realized the first thing she had to do was set Chris and the others free.
Mr Warlock.
Thanks
Jessica Winter, please. What are you doing here trying to set you all free?
But I don't know how
if only you had your magic powers back.
I have nothing but a few meager magical leftovers here in my pockets.
A short circuited wand,
useless.
A dried up magic potion. Powerless
the tiny stubs of 100 or so magic candles
and a few last handfuls of magic feed corn. Just junk
on me. Magic feed corn.
Well, it's of no use to us. It can't dissolve prison walls. All it could do is make
Reindeer fly. Reindeer fly. Yes. Yes. Ridiculous, isn't it?
Later that night, Jessica rounded up some of chris' Reindeer friends.
They just had to take one nibble of that corn.
And
hey, look at them go. I bet. You know their names
and Prancer and Vixen and come and Cupid
and
yes, sir. And don't forget
me.
No, that's another story.
Oh,
stop, stop. Let's go. Don,
let's go.
A
Vixen.
Oh, well, I still,
I'm not such a,
oh,
and that's how Santa's Reindeer
started to fly. That's just the way it happened.
We meister
burgh shall hunt them down throughout the land.
Those rebels will not have one moment's peace until they are captured again.
It's not even safe here. The guardsmen will be coming back. We'll have to push on.
I'll go anywhere. You say Chris,
like Robin Hood of old Chris suddenly found himself called an outlaw
wanted dead or alive.
Terrible toy maker.
Chris Kringle.
Well, those posters are not going to do them any good now.
Oh, Chris, let me take a good look at it. 30 grand, eh?
It's perfect. Well, since I'm a cringle,
I had to grow one sooner or later.
So that's why he has risks.
Ah, but you should not use your cringle name.
It's dangerous not call myself cringle. What other name would suit me? There is one
you were wearing this when we found you as the baby. See what it says. Clause
was your real name?
You must use it. Now, I knew it. I knew it. That's where he got his name from.
And it was that name he asked Jessica to share
it was that name Jessica agreed to take
as his wife, Jessica.
Oh, she became Mrs Santa Claus.
It was a lovely wedding.
Yes, sir.
They held it on Christmas Eve
and since no town would welcome them,
they stood before the Lord
in the silent winter woods
and a grove of pine trees was their cathedral.
They put all that pretty stuff onto the pine trees
and then Chris and Jessica placed their wedding gifts to each other under the trees.
No church ever looked nicer.
Oh, please
let me have
just a little magic.
The very first Christmas trees.
What better way
to tell you
how much
talk
perfect affection,
the place to
be in
Christmas.
The custom started
long, long ago
when first
the wise men.
Three.
Ok. Gifts of love,
21.
But there was no rest for our little group of outcasts.
Soon they were forced up beyond the reaches of civilization,
up far past the most northern city,
past where even most animals live
up
to the North Pole. This is it people.
Yes, this is it. We'll build ourselves a nice house.
Oh, heck, while we're at it, we'll build ourselves a castle
and the best toy factory in the world.
And that's just what they did.
And in no time at all, Santa's Castle
and workshop up at the North Pole.
Well, as soon as the buildings were built,
they settled in and started making toys in earnest.
Oh,
they needed toys. Because you see, despite everything, the Meister
Burger tried the legend of Chris Kringle or claws
as he now was known,
just grew and grew.
And
as the years went by
animals delivered letters by the thousands. Oh, just look at this list.
Well,
load up the sleigh.
Uh
This is the fourth trip this month.
You see,
he still had to travel by night
because he was considered an outlaw.
But when did they stop calling him an outlaw?
Well, as time went by that changed, you see the Meister
Burger,
they kind of died off and fell out of power
and by and by the good people realized how silly the Meister
burger laws were.
Well, everybody had a wonderful laugh and then forgot all about him.
Yes, sir. The older he got, the more famous he became and the more folks loved him.
He's very good, isn't he?
Uh
huh.
You bet.
Is that why he's called Santa Claus?
That's why honey,
that's why
it turned into quite a proposition. I can hardly keep up with the orders.
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to limit my journeys to
one a year.
But on which night should I go out?
I wonder
it wasn't a hard decision to make
they chose. Of course, the holiest night of the year,
the night of profound love,
which was the perfect night for giving
Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve.
And that's how it all started.
How goes it Mr Warlock Winter, please.
I've got my magic power working just fine.
I can cast up a big freeze. Yes, sir.
I think I can guarantee a white Christmas. Wonderful. And let's be off.
And that is the story of San.
He,
he's so wonderful. Everybody must love him. Well, most everybody.
Well, he's not considered an outlaw anymore
but there still are some
ba
I'm by
Christmas is a bother, the noise, the crowds, I really wish it were outlawed.
How can they talk about Santa Claus when there's so much unhappiness in the world?
Poor misguided folks.
They missed the whole point.
Lots of unhappiness.
Maybe so.
But doesn't Santa take a little bit of that unhappiness away?
Doesn't a smile on Christmas morning. Scratch out a tear, cried on a Saturday.
Not much. Maybe.
But what would happen if we all tried to be like Santa
and learned to give
as only he can give
of ourselves, our talents,
our love and our hearts.
Maybe if we could all learn Santa's beautiful lesson,
maybe there would finally be peace on earth
and goodwill toward man.
Hey, it's getting late
and I've got these letters to deliver
and you better be getting home too
and remember,
behave yourselves
because Santa can still look into his magic snowball and see just what you're up to.
And now that you know all about him,
you can be darn sure that comes snow or high water.
Santa Claus is coming
two times.
You better watch out.
You better not cry.
Santa Claus is
two times.
He's making a list and checking it twice. He's going to
find out who's not
Sarah Clauses
to time.
If he sees you when you're sleeping,
he knows when you're awake,
he knows it
bad or good. So be good for goodness sake.
Oh, you better watch out.
You better
fair enough.
Say the clothes
is come
to time.
What
it
Santa Claus
time.
Curly head down
the top
one
elephants boats. And
I'm saying that the cause is
to talk
and so you better watch out
s
the dog
and sad.
The causes.