These two films are both vaguely Christmas themed short news items from the Topical Budget newsreel in 1925.
The first item here is sent to us live from Santa’s factory, featuring some slightly bored old men and women assembling toys and making some terrifying looking dolls (see above). The second item features some camels (see below) and a joke so flimsy I feel kind of embarrassed for whoever originally made it, 100 years ago.
And that’s all the Christmas news (from 1925).
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Notes
1. I watched these on the BFI Player (Santa; Advice)
2. Topical Budget were one of the most successful newsreel companies (after Pathe and Gaumont), making over 10,000 different films/stories between 1911 and 1931.
3. You can read a bit more about them here on the BFI site.
4. Hopefully the rest were higher quality than this bloody camels one, though.
5. Even the exclamation mark in the title annoys me a bit.
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Film Information
Title: Santa Claus Factory
Year: 1925
Duration: 1 minute
Watch: BFI Player
Title: Our Advice This Festive Season!
Year: 1925
Duration: 1 minute
Watch: BFI Player