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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The "kids" are all well-behaved (since they're professional stage actors), but the animals are all very noticeably uncooperative and clearly have no training on how to work on-camera at all, leading to long stretches of LeaveTheCameraRunning during the scenes where they try to free Santa's sleigh, and later Rebel the dog infamous almost gets run over by the Ice Cream Bunny's truck.
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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The "kids" are all well-behaved (since they're professional stage actors), but the animals are all very noticeably uncooperative and clearly have no training on how to work on-camera at all, leading to long stretches of LeaveTheCameraRunning during the scenes where they try to free Santa's sleigh, and later Rebel the dog infamous infamously almost gets run over by the Ice Cream Bunny's truck.
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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The "kids" are all well-behaved (since they're professional stage actors), but the animals are all very noticeably uncooperative and clearly have no training on how to work on-camera at all, leading to long stretches of LeaveTheCameraRunning during the scenes where they try to free Santa's sleigh, and later Rebel the dog infamous almost gets run over by the Ice Cream Bunny's truck.
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* ActingForTwo: The child actors who play the elves in the opening scene appear later on [[AsHimself as themselves]] helping out Santa.
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* ActingForTwo: The child actors who play the elves in the opening scene appear later on [[AsHimself as themselves]] helping out Santa. Whether this has any significance or is just a [[NoBudget cost-saving measure]] is unclear.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the characters except Honest John and the giants wear contemporary (1970) clothing that's very much of its time. One suspects it's because they had to use the actors' own clothes.
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* CreatorsOddball: This is the only known fiction film directed by Richard Winer, whose career was otherwise spent as a documentary film-maker.
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* AmateurCast: The kids are actually billed as "'Kids' from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse". (That's not a typo: "Kids" is in quotation marks in the credits.)
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* ThrowItIn: During the early scene of a kid with a raccoon, it's obvious the animal is ''freaking out'' with the boy desperately trying to improvise off it.
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* DawsonCasting: Some of the "kids" are clearly pushing high school age.
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* DawsonCasting: Some of the "kids" are clearly pushing high school age.
age. Also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] as it's quite clear to the sharp-eyed viewer that the actor portraying Santa is much, ''much'' younger than he's intended to be under the quite obvious white stage-wool hair and beard (a moment of silence for that poor man's case of heat exhaustion).
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* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
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* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name. Except for the three girls who are just called "girls."
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* ActingForTwo: The blonde girl (Kim) also plays the elf who notices that Santa's gone, and presumably the other elves are played by child actors who show up to meet Santa on the beach later.
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* ActingForTwo: The blonde girl (Kim) also plays the elf who notices that Santa's gone, and presumably the other elves are played by child actors who show up to meet Santa on play the beach later.elves in the opening scene appear later on [[AsHimself as themselves]] helping out Santa.
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* ActingForTwo: The blonde girl (Kim) also plays the elf who notices that Santa's gone, and presumably the other elves are played by child actors who show up to meet Santa on the beach.beach later.
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Laserblast does not appear in Kim Nicholas\'s IM Db page.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas, best known by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' from ''Film/{{Laserblast}}''.
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* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit. The Thumbelina segments are presumably the young woman imagining the story as she listens to it.
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* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit. The Thumbelina segments are presumably the young woman imagining the story as she listens to it.it.
!!The ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' adaptation contains examples of:
* NoBudget: The golden hen and magic harp are mocked up from tinfoil and the scenes with both Jack and the giant are painfully clearly made by projecting the giant on a movie screen that Jack's walking in front of.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the characters except Honest John and the giants wear contemporary (1970) clothing that's very much of its time. One suspects it's because they had to use the actors' own clothes.
!!The ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' adaptation contains examples of:
* NoBudget: The golden hen and magic harp are mocked up from tinfoil and the scenes with both Jack and the giant are painfully clearly made by projecting the giant on a movie screen that Jack's walking in front of.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: All the characters except Honest John and the giants wear contemporary (1970) clothing that's very much of its time. One suspects it's because they had to use the actors' own clothes.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas, best known by ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' from ''{{Laserblast}}''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas, best known by ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' from ''{{Laserblast}}''.
''Film/{{Laserblast}}''.
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!!The ''Thumbelina'' adaptation contains examples of:
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!!The ''Thumbelina'' adaptation contains examples of:of:
* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit. The Thumbelina segments are presumably the young woman imagining the story as she listens to it.
* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit. The Thumbelina segments are presumably the young woman imagining the story as she listens to it.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas, best known by ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' from ''{{Laserblast}}''.
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!!''Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny'' contains examples of:
* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
!!The ''Thumbelina'' adaptation contains examples of:
* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
!!The ''Thumbelina'' adaptation contains examples of:
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* {{Padding}}: Dear God, yes. If you took out the Thumbelina segment and all the unnecessarily long shots, the movie would be about 5 minutes long.
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* {{Padding}}: Dear God, yes. If you took out the Thumbelina segment and all the unnecessarily long shots, the movie would be about 5 minutes long.
