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Santa Claus and the Magic Drum (original Finnish title: Joulupukki ja noitarumpu, Swedish: Jultomten och trolltrumman) is a 51 minute long Finnish-Hungarian animation released in 1996. [1] The story is based on a 1995 children's book of the same name by Mauri Kunnas. The film has been recorded in Finnish, English (British) and Swedish.
The name joulupukki literally means ' Christmas goat ' or ' Yule goat ' in Finnish; the word pukki comes from the Old Swedish word bukker, a cognate of English "buck", meaning ' billy-goat '. An old Nordic folk tradition , the figure is now often conflated with Santa Claus .
Many years ago, in Lapland, a boy named Nikolas is orphaned when his family are killed in an accident.The heads of the families in the village meet to decide his future and, as life in the arctic is difficult, it is decided that as no one family could care for him permanently, they would raise him communally, with each family taking him for one year, starting on Christmas Day, and then moving ...
Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.
Santa's wife is simply known as Mrs. Claus. Her first name is unknown, and it's unclear if that's because she prefers to maintain an air of mystery or because we live in a patriarchal society that ...
Haddon Hubbard "Sunny" Sundblom (June 22, 1899 – March 10, 1976) was an American artist of Swedish and Finnish descent and best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. [1] Sundblom's friend Lou Prentice was the original model for the illustrator's Santa. [2]
The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974) When old Saint Nick starts feeling burnt out, Mrs. Claus decides to step in one holiday season and winds up on a whirlwind adventure — with a bit of help ...
Santa Claus: The Movie contains a subplot in which Santa Claus rescues Joe (Christian Fitzpatric) from his best friend Cornelia's (Carrie Kei Heim) evil step-uncle B. Z. (John Lithgow). [2] Santa is a hero in The Nightmare Before Christmas, held captive by Oogie Boogie, although he is spiteful and enraged at Jack when freed.