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See it for yourself on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8e7KUjtFTo the NFB's Youtube channel]].
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''Christmas Cracker'' is a 1963 animated short film that despite being only nine minutes long needed four directors: Grant Munro, Jeff Hale, Gerald Potterton, and Creator/NormanMcLaren. It was produced by the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
It is three short bits of animation linked around the theme of Christmas. In the first, two cut-out animation figures dance to the tune of "Jingle Bells". (The characters as drawn rather strongly resemble how ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' drew Canadians 35 years or so later, which [[ThereAreNoCoincidences can't be a coincidence]].) The second involves a bunch of Christmas toys (presumably they're Christmas toys, actually there isn't a clear connection to Christmas) running around fighting and racing and having a rodeo. The third, really the only one with a semblance of a plot, involves a man looking for a star for his Christmas tree. The three segments are linked by interludes where a cheerful clown introduces each in turn.
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!!Tropes:
* ArtShift: The three segments are done in three different styles--clip art, stop motion, and traditional 2-D cel. And the linking segments with the clown are live action.
* AsideGlance: The man in the third segment succeeds in plucking the star from the sky, taking it back to earth, and bringing it to his home. But the moment he opens the box, the star flies out and shoots back up into space. The man looks right at the camera and shrugs.
* ClipArtAnimation: How the first segment is done, with paper cut-outs animated.
* NonIronicClown: The happy clown who dances around and introduces each segment.
* SteamPunk: The man in the third segment builds quite the steam punk spaceship to go into space and get the star. It has gears, it has analog clock faces, it has steam vents. And his little shuttlecraft is somehow driven by a propeller.
* StarOfBethlehem: Well, there aren't three wise men following the star to Jesus. But the star does twinkle brightly in star of Bethlehem fashion, and it is a Christmas cartoon.
* StopMotion: The second segment has all the toys animated in stop motion.
* WhiteVoidRoom: In the third segment, the interior of the man's house is a white void.
It is three short bits of animation linked around the theme of Christmas. In the first, two cut-out animation figures dance to the tune of "Jingle Bells". (The characters as drawn rather strongly resemble how ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' drew Canadians 35 years or so later, which [[ThereAreNoCoincidences can't be a coincidence]].) The second involves a bunch of Christmas toys (presumably they're Christmas toys, actually there isn't a clear connection to Christmas) running around fighting and racing and having a rodeo. The third, really the only one with a semblance of a plot, involves a man looking for a star for his Christmas tree. The three segments are linked by interludes where a cheerful clown introduces each in turn.
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!!Tropes:
* ArtShift: The three segments are done in three different styles--clip art, stop motion, and traditional 2-D cel. And the linking segments with the clown are live action.
* AsideGlance: The man in the third segment succeeds in plucking the star from the sky, taking it back to earth, and bringing it to his home. But the moment he opens the box, the star flies out and shoots back up into space. The man looks right at the camera and shrugs.
* ClipArtAnimation: How the first segment is done, with paper cut-outs animated.
* NonIronicClown: The happy clown who dances around and introduces each segment.
* SteamPunk: The man in the third segment builds quite the steam punk spaceship to go into space and get the star. It has gears, it has analog clock faces, it has steam vents. And his little shuttlecraft is somehow driven by a propeller.
* StarOfBethlehem: Well, there aren't three wise men following the star to Jesus. But the star does twinkle brightly in star of Bethlehem fashion, and it is a Christmas cartoon.
* StopMotion: The second segment has all the toys animated in stop motion.
* WhiteVoidRoom: In the third segment, the interior of the man's house is a white void.
