Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1951)

Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1951)

One of Santa Claus' "brownies" (elves) introduces the story of the Fairy Snow Queen, who plays a trick on Santa Claus by bringing all the toys to life just before Claus is due to deliver them to children around the world. She shows Claus what she's done and the toys demonstrate their abilities. The toys are distraught when Claus says they must be turned back into inanimate objects.

Director: Sid Davis
Writer: Robert Niel Porter
Stars: Rochelle Stanton, Edmund Penney, Margo Von Leu

Trivia
This was riffed live by the guys from MST3K under the Rifftrax name(Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy), as part of their Live Rifftrax of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians".

Quotes
Snoopy: My name is Snoopy.

[giggles]

Snoopy: Santa Claus calls me Snoopy because, I snoop. I work for Santa Claus, I used to make toys like all the other little brownies, but that was when I was much younger. Now Santa has a special job for me. Did you ever hear the door close and you look around and there isn't anybody there? And the shutter goes bang-bang-bang-bang-bang and there isn't any wind? And the floor cree-e-ee-aks, and you sit up in bed and you say 'Is that you, Daddy?' Well it isn't your daddy, nor your mommy neither. It's me! I'm the little brownie that goes around to all the children's houses to see if they've been good boys and girls. Yes sir, I know all about you little boys and girls, I know the ones that ate their breakfast, and the ones that put away their toys. Which brings me to the reason Santa sent me here to talk to you. From what I see and what we hear way up in Toyland, a lot of the toys that Santa and his brownies have worked so hard to make get broken, and lost, and left out in the rain. You see I have another job too, all the toys that are broken and forgotten, Santa has me pick up in a bi-i-ig basket, and take to the land of lost and forgotten toys. Well, none of the toys want to go there, as you can surely imagine, so Santa thought that if I came here and told you how the fairy snow queen first gave toys life, that then you would appreciate them more and take better care of them.

Alternate versions
Although the film was shot and is available in color, some prints were struck in black-and-white.

Connections
Featured in Retro Christmas Classics (2007)

Soundtracks
The Nutcracker
(excerpts)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Played by uncredited offscreen orchestra over the opening credits and several other scenes