The Shanty Where Santy Clause Lives

Back in September, I mentioned that the short The Shanty Where Santy Clause Lives was on the Lady Killer DVD and that, since it was a Christmas movie, I'd be doing a post on it during the Christmas season. We'll we're between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so now is as good a time as any to do that post.

There's not all that much in this short. An orphan is trudging home through the snow on Christmas Eve despairing at all the people celebrating Christmas while he has nothing but an empty stocking. Of course, in cartoon Hollywood Santa Clause is real, so of course the sleigh shows up outside the orphan's window.

Santa takes the kid to his workshop, where you have all the standard-issue 1930s windup toys, and dolls. These toys are then used for the usual sight gags, until one of them accidentally sets the Christmas tree on fire, forcing the kid to put it out and save the day.

It's not a bad cartoon, although there's not all that much original here, certainly not by the standards of looking back 85 years. I was intrigued by the songs, as I had forgotten that "Get Happy" was originally from 1930 which is why it's showing up here well before Judy Garland ever sang it. There was also a Kate Smith joke.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a glitch in the DVD that's not allowing me to go back and forth through that short and stop at a precise point to get a screenshot. Well, I could start from the beginning and wait for the point, but that's too time consuming. So no screenshot with this one.