A Robot Christmas
A female Santa in a robot-driven sleigh wishes Merry Christmas to all, from Boston Dynamics.
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Archive for the tag “Santa Claus”
Triggered by White People
Isn’t it time to give Santa Claus a rest? Why aren’t Christmas gifts delivered by a woman, say a big, fat, feminist woman? Hunter Avallone imagines the positive changes.
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Santa Claus on Mars!
Just in time for the holidays, we present the full original 1964 holiday comedy: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar (“Mom Martian”) and Kimar (“King Martian”). They’re worried that their children Girmar (“Girl Martian”) and Bomar (“Boy Martian”) are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV’s interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning “genius”), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society’s overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.
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Is Santa Claus Real?
More than 2 billion children anxiously await the arrival of Santa Claus tonight, but is Jolly Old St. Nick for real? In this edition of It’s Okay to be Smart, Joe Hanson employs a little scientific analysis, including quantum physics, to tackle the age-old question.
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Worldwide Tour of Christmas
Join SourceFed’s Lee Newton as she takes us on a whirlwind tour of Christmas Around the World, touching on the many traditions from carols to food to Santa Claus. Enjoy and Merry Christmas.
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Brawling Santas
There wasn’t much nice about the annual renewal of SantaCon in New York City, but there was plenty of naughtiness to go around. The event attracts revelers who use social media to coordinate locations and times for the annual event every second Saturday in December. But instead of celebrating the spirit of Santa Claus and the Christmas season, the Santas began kicking, beating and pummeling each other following a night of drinking. More from TheLipTV.
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Santa Claus
Today’s Trillion Dollar, Santa Claus, might be the silliest Christmas movie ever made — yes, even more bizarre than Santa Claus Conquers the Martians or Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. Made in Mexico, this 1959 movie portrays Jolly Saint Nick as you’ve never seen him before. He doesn’t live at the North Pole, but in a floating castle in Outer Space. Instead of calling upon elves to create toys, he employs the services of a sweatshop full of conscripted children he has “adopted” from around the world. The reindeer are robots, whom Santa considers replacing with “Sputniks.”
Santa also has a magical observatory to spy on children the world over. As the narrator describes the premises, “What wonderful instruments! The Ear Scope! The Teletalker, that knows everything! The Cosmic Telescope! The Master Eye! Nothing that happens on Earth is unknown to Santa Claus!”
The film follows Santa as he makes his rounds in Mexico one Christmas Eve, keeping a special watch on a poor little girl named Lupita who wants a doll, and a rich boy who wants nothing more than the love of his neglectful parents. Lucifer, the Devil himself, has laid out several obstacles to block Santa and sent a personal emissary — the impish Pitch — to pull pranks on the fat, bearded dude and to entice bad boys and girls to misbehave. Pitch prances around a lot, but he’s pretty inept, and Santa has his own magical ally — Merlin the Wizard.
This truly strange and subversive feature — yet one that’s a hoot to watch — is the handiwork of writer-director René Cardona, a prolific filmmaker who created nearly 150 titles, many of them cheap Westerns, wrestling movies, horror flicks and Santo superhero adventures. Cardona lets his imagination roam wildly here, and gets a nice assist from José Elías Moreno cast in the title role. You might remember Moreno from the Dec. 6 Trillion Dollar Movie Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters, where he appears as the Red-Headed Ogre.
Much like that film, Santa Claus was imported to the United States by Florida-based producer Keith Gordon Murray, appearing not only in theaters but on television as a holiday special through the 1960s. Enjoy, and do return next Friday for another Trillion $ Movie.
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