| Father Christmas | |
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| Directed by | Dave Unwin |
| Written by | Raymond Briggs (books) |
| Produced by | John Coates |
| Starring | Mel Smith (UK) William Dennis Hunt (US) |
| Music by | Mike Hewer |
Production companies | Blooming Productions Ltd. TVC London |
| Distributed by | Channel 4 |
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Running time | 26 min (British runtime) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Father Christmas is a 1991 British animated short film which adapts two books written by Raymond Briggs – Father Christmas and Father Christmas Goes on Holiday. Produced by Blooming Productions Ltd. at TVC London for Channel 4 Television Company Ltd., in association with Palace Video and GAGA Communications, the film premiered on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 1991 in Britain, and was the second animated adaptation of Briggs' work made for the channel, following the 1982 animated short The Snowman. The film stars Mel Smith as Father Christmas and was dedicated to the late animator John McGuire.
The story focuses on a stereotypical vision of Father Christmas with a down-to-earth twist, living in contemporary Britain with his pets and reindeer, coping with everyday domestic chores, who recounts to the viewers about a holiday he took before preparing for another Christmas.[1]
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 103. ISBN 9781476672939.