Santa's Workshop

Santa's Workshop
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Allan Watson William Geiger Pinto Colvig Walt Disney J. Delos Jewkes
Music by	Frank Churchill
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	United Artists
Released	December 30, 1932
Running time	6:37
Language	English
Preceded by	Babes in the Woods
Followed by	Birds in the Spring

Santa's Workshop is an animated Silly Symphony short from 1932.

Synopsis

The short starts off with some elves cleaning Santa's Sleigh while singing. As they’re cleaning the sleigh, one of the elves mentions that tomorrow is Christmas Day. It then cuts to elves getting the reindeer ready for delivering presents. The camera then cuts to Santa opening and reading letters. The first letter he reads is from a girl named Molly asking for a doll. Santa asks his elf to check the naughty list to see if the girl is on it. The girl isn't because she eats her spinach every day. The second letter is from a boy named Billy Brown asking for several things and Santa decides to give him Noah's ark. The elf checks the naughty list and finds that he is naughty because he hasn't washed behind his ears. Santa says he'll even add a bar of soap. The camera then shows several elves making toys, including a summarized version of the making of rocking horses.

The short then shows the making of dolls. Santa approves dolls for shipping, and then spins a toy plane which knocks several toys off a shelf. As this happens, a parade of toys marches into Santa's sack as he carries them to his sleigh, where several elves are cheering him on. Santa and his elves being to sing a goodbye song and the elves wish the audience a Merry Christmas Day.

Characters

• Santa Claus (voiced by Allan Watson and William Geiger)
• Elves (voiced by Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, and J. Delos Jewkes)

Censorship

Occasionally censored from the toy approval sequence are two dolls, with the second being a black caricature that says "Mammy!". The uncut version was used in the 1982 print of A Walt Disney Christmas, and on the Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies DVD. The censored version, which does not feature the doll, was used on the 1993 print of A Walt Disney Christmas, the Celebrate Christmas with Mickey, Donald & Friends DVD, the Disney Animation Collection Volume 7: Mickey's Christmas Carol DVD, and on Disney+.

Also removed from Disney+ is a shot in the march involving a dancing Jewish toy.

Releases

Television

• The Mickey Mouse Club, December 22, 1955
• The Mickey Mouse Club, December 21, 1956
• Walt Disney Presents, episode #5.12: "From All of Us to All of You"
• A Disney Channel Christmas
• Treasures from the Disney Vault, December 21, 2014

Home video

VHS/Betamax/CED/Laserdisc

• A Walt Disney Christmas

DVD

• Celebrate Christmas with Mickey, Donald & Friends (censored)
• Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies (uncensored)
• Walt Disney Animation Collection, Volume 7: Mickey's Christmas Carol (censored)

Streaming

• Disney+, November 12, 2019 (censored)

Gallery

A Charlie Chaplin toy in Santa's Workshop.

See also

• Santa's Workshop (song)

References

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1929 The Skeleton Dance • El Terrible Toreador • Springtime • Hell's Bells • The Merry Dwarfs 1930 Summer • Autumn • Cannibal Capers • Frolicking Fish • Arctic Antics • Midnight in a Toy Shop • Night • Monkey Melodies • Winter • Playful Pan 1931 Birds of a Feather • Mother Goose Melodies • The China Plate • The Busy Beavers • The Cat's Out • Egyptian Melodies • The Clock Store • The Spider and the Fly • The Fox Hunt (1931 short) • The Ugly Duckling (1931) 1932 The Bird Store • The Bears and Bees • Just Dogs • Flowers and Trees • King Neptune • Bugs in Love • Babes in the Woods • Santa's Workshop 1933 Birds in the Spring • Father Noah's Ark • Three Little Pigs • Old King Cole • Lullaby Land • The Pied Piper • The Night Before Christmas 1934 The China Shop • The Grasshopper and the Ants • Funny Little Bunnies • The Big Bad Wolf • The Wise Little Hen • The Flying Mouse • Peculiar Penguins • The Goddess of Spring 1935 The Tortoise and the Hare • The Golden Touch • The Robber Kitten • Water Babies • The Cookie Carnival • Who Killed Cock Robin? • Music Land • Three Orphan Kittens • Cock o' the Walk • Broken Toys 1936 Elmer Elephant • Three Little Wolves • Toby Tortoise Returns • Three Blind Mouseketeers • The Country Cousin • Mother Pluto • More Kittens 1937 Woodland Café • Little Hiawatha • The Old Mill 1938 The Moth and the Flame • Wynken, Blynken and Nod • Farmyard Symphony • Merbabies • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1939 The Practical Pig • The Ugly Duckling