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Here's my Santa Claus promo video for 2016!

When my youngest daughter was 9, she wanted to videotape Santa delivering gifts. She set her little camera up and the old man made sure she got her video. Kept the magic alive for 4 more years.

Another try at this ½ the size

Finishing up a #4 Dancer sleigh bell. I hope the sound come through okay. I put a 1/2” jinglet inside this one for a medium tone. When I get up to the #8 Donder and Blitzen bells I’ll use the 3/4” jinglet. I can’t wait to get them all lined up on a leather together. That’s still a few weeks away but I’ll post it when I’m there!

From Santa's 2017 visit at the Dollar Tree in Hendersonville, TN

Commercial I did for a small Christmas Market that I will be appearing at organized by college students.

I just made a new sleigh this year, and the kids are crazy about it...

Dick Conkling's CyberSleigh II at the National Golf Club in Dec. 2009

38 years ago this iconic commercial first was on the television. it is still beloved by a lot of people from not only Pittsburgh but all of the places eat n park was located.

santa visits the doctors tv show, whoever the santa is in this instance got a lucky gig

For the past 12 Christmas Eves, we have answered the wishes of children staying at the Salvation Army Children's Shelter in Kansas City. Every year before we enter the Shelter, I thank everyone for their hard work and contributions to The Mission. This was Christmas Eve 2018.

Just before Christmas, Santa was asked to deliver a very special gift.

This 1945 movie short (22 min) won the Academy Award in 1946 for best short subject film. It is a simple, but very touching retelling of the Nativity Story, set in the American Southwest. I found it as an added feature on my Christmas in Connecticut DVD. Did I mention it was very touching? (It brought tears to my eyes)

Eaton's 1955 Television Commercial with Santa Claus, Hokey, and Punkinhead

Made in 1898, G.A. Smith's 'Santa Claus' is a film of considerable technical ambition and accomplishment for its period. It uses pioneering visual effects in its depiction of a visit from St. Nicholas. A former magic lanternist and hypnotist, Smith was one of the first British film-makers to make extensive use of special effects to create fantastical scenes. It comes as little surprise that Smith corresponded with the French pioneer Georges Méliès at about this time, as the two men shared a common goal in terms of creating an authentic cinema of illusion. (Michael Brooke)

What the heck is plumb pudding anyway?

i know this is not a christmas video, but this shows what happens september first and afterwords

I really like this representation of Father Christmas

santa history was made 75 years ago today

I have been an ASL Interpreter for over 33 years and a Santa (including occasional Signing Santa) since 2019. I have recently presented on "Being Santa for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" on Santa Ed Taylor's Worldwide Santa Claus Network at his recent Santa Summit 2021. Here is a copy of the video Workshop (about 40 minutes).

I love this video

Full movie A Muppet Family Christmas was a 1-hour tv special that broadcast originally in 1987 and was re-broadcast in 1988 & 1989. This video is from one of the rebroadcasts because the title card is displayed when the Muppets are driving in the truck to Fozzie's Mom's house. For more information on the movie, check out the Muppets Wiki page for the film here.

Presenter Mary Parkinson looks back at Christmas in days gone by with three ladies who grew up at the turn of the century: Edna Brannon Florence Edwards Emily Holde First shown: 05/12/1973

This was the first year I permed my arrow-straight beard and the second year I've bleached out my sandy brown hair to match my snowy white beard. See if you think the results are worth 3 hours in the salon.

Yee-ouch! That's going to leave a mark. Or two. Or Three. I loved this movie.

A look at the hidden power of film props and how filmmakers use the everyday (and not so everyday) objects in their scenes to enhance cinematic storytelling.

this makes perfect sense to me !

Saw a post on this and looked it up - a very simple story - but very well done the book is on Amazon Robot Check WWW.AMAZON.COM

Remember when people were kind to each other? Google put together a tribute to Mr. Rogers. Give it a view.

One of my favorite scenes from the classic movie, Bells of St. Mary's. Actually, one of the few Christmas moments in a movie that is often categorized as a Christmas film.

my son singing David Phelps' Joy Joy December 2017

This is just a small tease for the documentary I am creating around the Discover Santa 2016 convention.

Billie Mae Richards radio interview. She provided the voice for the Original voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1964 to 1979

Thomas Edison's 1908 silent version of the Christmas classic, "The Night Before Christmas."

You wanna be where everybody knows your name...