Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny contains examples of:
Acting for Two: The child actors who play the elves in the opening scene appear later on as themselves helping out Santa. Whether this has any significance or is just a cost-saving measure is unclear.
Amateur Cast: 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.)
Creator's Oddball: This is the only known fiction film directed by Richard Winer, whose career was otherwise spent as a documentary film-maker.
The Danza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name. Except for the three girls who are just called "girls."
Dawson Casting: Some of the "kids" are clearly pushing high school age. Also 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).
Never Work with Children or Animals: 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 Leave the Camera Running during the scenes where they try to free Santa's sleigh, and later Rebel the dog infamously almost gets run over by the Ice Cream Bunny's truck.
Throw It In!: 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.
The Thumbelina adaptation contains examples of:
Acting for Two: 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.
The Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation contains examples of:
No Budget: 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.
