The J&J Video Christmas Collections
The Joys of Christmas
Collections of shorts, cartoons, and special programs centered on the Christmas Theme
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The Joys of Christmas Volume 1 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are the 1955 NBC Christmas eve special "An evening with Charles Laughton" - for a full hour Mr Laughton reads from the works of James Thurber, the Book of Daniel, the gospel according to Luke and Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers". Taken from an original NBC Kinescope. Also on this volume is the 1954 Christmas episode of Waterfront; "Christmas in San Pedro" with Preston Foster, Willie Best and Arthur Shields. There are several Christmas short subjects including 1957's Howdy Doody's Christmas.
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The Joys of Christmas Volume 2 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are over 90 minutes of Christmas shorts including "No Room at the Inn", "Christmas Lace", "The Brightest Night" and more. The collection ends with The Patti Page show. This is the Christmas episode (Patti sings 4 or 5 songs) - but it should be noted, this was her 15 minute syndicated show, not the one sponsored by Oldsmobile!
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The Joys of Christmas Volume 3 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are 4 half hour specials including one from 1950 called "The Guiding Star", The moving "No Escape from Christmas", The animated "The City that Forgot About Christmas" and Jim Backus telling the story behind the most famous Christmas letter of all "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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The Joys of Christmas Volume 4 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are Two versions of Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol" - the first is narrated by Fredric March and stars Basil Rathbone as Scrooge - the second Stars March as Scrooge, with Rathbone as Jacob Marley. This one is a musical with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. It was originally shown on Christmas Eve, 1954 as part of the CBS/Desilu "Shower of stars". Rounding out the two hours on this volume are 4 Holiday shorts
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The Joys of Christmas Volume 5 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured is a newsreel from 1945, a Visit to Santa - 1963, A Visitor for Christmas, Joe Santa Claus - 1951, a small collection of theatrical trailers for Christmas movies, the stable boy's Christmas and more.
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Joys of Christmas Vol 6 A Christmas Dream A present for Santa Claus - 1957 Charlie's Christmas Project Christmas all year round Christmas Bus
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Joys of Christmas Vol 7 Christmas Day Dreams Christmas Rhapsody Christmas sing-a-long 02 Christmas Visitor I will Take you to the Christ Child
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Vol 8 (Christmas around the world) Christmastime in Europe Child's Christmas in Whales Christmas in Appalachia with Charles Kuralt
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Joys of Christmas Vol 9 Elves and the Shoemaker god's Christmas Gift Holy Night How The Animals discovered Christmas Little Drummer Boy little lamb
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Joys of Christmas Vol 10 little shepherd and the 1st Christmas Martin the Cobler Merry Christmas - 1950 Mickey Plays Santa
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Joys of Christmas Vol 11 (the Night Before) Night Before Christmas (Rakin Bass) Night Before Christmas (castle) Night Before Christmas (EB films) night before christmas - 1956 the fright before Christmas Twas the Night Before Christmas (Norman Luboff)
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Joys of Christmas Vol 12 Our First Christmas Santa Claus Suit Santa in animal land Santa's Workshop - Night before Christmas Santa Claus punch and judy Story Line (color) A Baby Named Jesus Story Line (mono) Led By A Star
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Vol 13 Christmas at Menlo Park A Christmas Accident (Edison) - 1897 A Christmas Carol (Edison) - 1910 A Holiday Pagent at home (Christmas 1901) A Trap for Santa - 1909 A Winter Straw Ride - Edison - 1906 Night Before Christmas (Edison) - 1905 Santa Claus (A Fantasy-night before Christmas) 1925 Santa vs Cupid (Edison) - 1915 The Wrong Santa Claus (Edison) - 1914
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Vol 14 Christmas Animation part 1 1939 - peace on earth (Harmon) Alias Saint Nick A Christmas tree - 1959 Christmas up north Cosmic Christmas Fleischer - Christmas Comes But Once A Year Jack Frost (1934) Little Drummer Boy (Rankin Bass)
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Vol 15 Christmas animation part 2 Merry Mirthworm Christmas Santa and the Three Bears - 1970 Silent Night, Holy Night Small One & A Snowy Day
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Vol 16 Christmas Animation part 3 The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933) Tom And Jerry - The Night Before Christmas - '41 Toyland Broadcast, Bedtime For Sniffles Twas the Night Before Christmas (Norman Luboff) Those Beautiful Dames What is Christmas - 1973
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Joys of Christmas Vol 17 F. W. Woolworths Christmas McDonalds Christmas Commercial - 1976 Singer Christmas Commercial Miracle On 34th Street - 1957 Christmas Looking Christmas is…. Story of Christmas (NFBoC)
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Special: The Toons of Christmas 2 hours of animated classics from Fleischer, Harmon Ising, Iwerkes (highlights from our three volumes of Christmas Animation)
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Television Christmas
Each DVD contains 4 holiday episodes of classic TV shows
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Volume 1 Your Hit Parade - 1955 Annie Oakley - Santa Wears A Gun - 1957 Betty White - A Date With The Angels - 1957 Burns & Allen - 1951
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Volume 2 Capt. Gallant - the boy who found Christmas - 1955 Coke Time - 1955 Crossroads - Our First Christmas Tree Crossroads- the Man Who Walked On Water
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Volume 3 Dragnet - Big New Year - 1956 Dragnet - A Gun/rifle For Christmas - 1952 Dragnet - Big Little Jesus - 1953 Four Star Playhouse - The Answer - 1955
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Volume 4 Liberace show - 1954 Meet Corlis Archer - 1954 Ozzie And Harriet - A Busy Christmas Racket Squad - The Christmas Caper – 1953
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Volume 5 Racket Squad - The Story of Blessed Expense - 1952 Robin Hood - Christmas Goose - 1957 Scarlet Pimpernel - the Christmas Present - 1956 Four Star Playhouse - The Gift - 1953
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Volume 6 Sherlock Holms - Case of the Christmas Pudding - 1955 The Nativity (Westinghouse Studio One) - 1952 The Ruggles A Christmas Carol (as told by Vincent Price)
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More from the Television Archives
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A Carol for another Christmas – 1964 Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Written by Rod Serling with Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara, Steve Lawrence, Robert Shaw, Peter Sellers & Britt Ekland
Scrooges RnR Christmas - 1984 The Association, Jack Elam, Bobby Goldsboro, Mike Love, Mary MacGregor, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Merrilee Rush, Three Dog Night & Dean Torrence
Christmas Carol (live musical) – 1979
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A Television Christmas Carol Here are Five classic versions from our television archives. First up is the 1954 Shower of Stars Kinescope with Fredric March as Scrooge and Basil Rathbone as Jacob Marley Followed by the 1958 production Hosted by March with Rathbone as Ebenezer Scrooge. Then a 1949 production hosted by Vincent Price. From 1982 its Rich Little with his W.C. Fields take on Scrooge. Finally the long unseen 1986 version with Robert Guillaume, Roscoe Browne & Geoffrey Holder in John Grin's Christmas - presented will all the original network commercials. All on 2 DVDs for $25
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Our Christmas Features
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Christmas Eve - 1947 George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Ann Harding, Reginald Denny, Douglass Dumbrille, Dennis Hoey
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – 1964 Hoboken's own Pia Alfreda Schipani (Zadora)
The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t – 1966 Paul Tripp, Rossano & Lydia Brazzi, Sonny Fox
Beyond Tomorrow – 1940 Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Maria Ouspenskaya, Richard Carlson, Jean Parker
Scrooge – 1935 Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, with Maurice Evans, Barbara Everest & Philip Frost
Santa and the Three Bears – 1970 Animated 45 minute version
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Santa Claus (vs the Devil) – 1959 A movie so bad it makes Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Look like Gone With The Wind
The Cheaters – 1945 Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson, Raymond Walburn, Ann Gillis, Ruth Terry Robert Livingston.
A Christmas Wish AKA Great Rupert from 1950 (available in color or B&W) Directed by Irving Pichel Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Don Beddoe, Clancy Cooper, Frank Cady
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) |