What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/Transcript

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town is a 1970 Christmas stop motion animated feature film produced by DreamWorks and Rankin/Bass Productions. The film tells the story of how Santa Claus and several Claus-related Christmas traditions came to be. It is based on the hit Christmas song of the same name, which was introduced on radio by Eddie Cantor in 1934, and the story of Saint Nicholas.

Opening
(DreamWorks logo)

(The film opens to a logo "World News" and the black and white stock footage of children)

News Announcer: Today children everywhere are making preparations for an event of world-shaking significance the annual visit of Santa Claus, informed sources report legions of junior citizens are making monumental efforts not to cry and not to bow. (switches to the mail envelopes organizing) meanwhile letters by the thousands have been sweating postal facilities at the North Pole.

(The scene fades to a color stop motion world where a mail van drives through the forest until it stop as a snow falls on it. A mail man steps out)

Mail man: Dog gone they always cocks out when your...(to the audiance) Well hello there, my name's Special Delivery Kluger, S.D. for short. Oh I got lots of letters for Santa today. (pulls out bag and grabs a letter) And every year they're the same, some ask for toys, but a lot ask questions, like you take this one I bet one of you wrote it:

Girl: (voice over) Dear Santa, why do you wear a Red Suit?

S.D.: Uh-huh, I thought so. And this one.

Boy: (voice over) My turn. Dear Santa, why do you come down the chimney when I'm asleep?

S.D.: How about these?

Girl: (voice over) Why do you have whiskers?

Boy: (voice over) Why do you live at the North Pole?

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