Christmas Comes But Once a Year

For other uses, see Christmas Comes But Once a Year (disambiguation).
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Directed byDave Fleischer
Animation:
Seymour Kneitel
Produced byMax Fleischer[1]
StarringEverett Clark (Grampy)[1][2]
Mae Questel
(Orphans - uncredited)
Jack Mercer
(additional voices)
Music bySammy Timberg
Bob Rothberg
Tot Seymour
Animation bySeymour Kneitel
William Henning[1]
Additional:
Abner Kneitel (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 4, 1936 (1936-12-04)
Running time
8 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Christmas Comes But Once a Year is a 1936 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and released on December 4, 1936 by Paramount Pictures. It is part of the Color Classics series.[3] The cartoon features Professor Grampy, a character from the Betty Boop series; this is the character's only appearance without Betty.[4] An edited version was featured during the Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special in 1988, as the featured short shown by the King of Cartoons.

The cartoon was restored from the original Paramount Pictures camera negatives by Jane Fleischer Reid's company Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored and debuted on MeTV's Toon in With Me on December 21, 2022.

  1. ^ a b c d Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  2. ^ Pointer, Ray (2017). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4766-6367-8.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ 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. 52. ISBN 9781476672939.