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Vintage Holiday Show

Screening on Film
Free Admission

Our annual family-friendly program of short holiday and winter-themed films is creatively crafted from prints in the Harvard Film Archive’s vast collections. All on motion picture film, appropriate for all ages and free of charge!

PROGRAM

  • The Great Toy Robbery

    Directed by Jeff Hale.
    Canada, 1963, 35mm, color, 6 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • A Christmas Fantasy

    Directed by John Feeney.
    Canada, 1961, 16mm, color, 9 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Santa’s Workshop

    Directed by Wilfred Jackson.
    US, 1932, 16mm, color, 7 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • A Christmas Dream

    Directed by Karel Zeman & Hermina Tyrlova.
    Czechoslovakia, 1949, 16mm, black & white, 11 min.
    Print source: HFA

  • A Christmas Visitor

    Directed by John Halas.
    UK, 1959, 16mm, color, 7 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • How the Animals Discovered Christmas

    35mm, color, 13 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • The Energy Carol

    Directed by Les Drew.
    Canada, 1975, 16mm, color, 11 min.
    Print source: HFA
  • Two Little Frosts

    Directed by by Jiří Trnka.
    Czechoslovakia, 1953, 16mm, color, 13 min.
    Print source: HFA

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