A Visit from St. Nicholas

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar plums danc'd in their heads,

The Night Before Christmas (1941 film)

The Night Before Christmas is a 1941 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 3rd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Jack Zander, George Gordon, Irven Spence and Bill Littlejohn. It was the last episode of Season 1 in original issues of MGM animated shorts at the time, only Hanna and Barbera are credited. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. It was released to theaters on December 6, 1941 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, making it the last Tom and Jerry pre-war cartoon and the last pre-war cartoon in animation history.

Plot

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But Jerry emerges from his hole avoiding a Christmas-themed mousetrap placed by his hole. Jerry nears the Christmas presents, jumping merrily around the tree, licking candy canes and jumping onto a plush toy lion that squeaks. Jerry continues jumping on the soft toy, but bounces too hard and lands on Tom, who he inadvertently wakes up. Tom snarls and just before he can eat Jerry, the quick-thinking mouse grabs a nearby "Do Not Open 'Til Xmas" sticker and slaps it on Tom's mouth.

The Night Before Christmas (Dai)

The Night Before Christmas is an orchestral work written by the American composer Aaron Dai in 2006. The work is performed by a full orchestra and a narrator reading Clement Clarke Moore's poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

History

The Night Before Christmas premiered in New York City on December 2, 2006 with The Chelsea Symphony and actor Richard Kind. It has since been narrated by Ana Gasteyer (2007), David Hyde Pierce (2008),Charles Busch (2009),Andrea Martin (2010),Rachel Dratch (2011), Mo Rocca (2012),Victor Garber (2013),BD Wong (2014), and Seth Rudetsky (2015).

Moore's poem was selected partly due to the nominal connection between the author's home and the orchestra that would debut the musical work. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" was penned in 1822 on Moore's country estate—named "Chelsea"—which eventually became the Manhattan district Chelsea, which, in turn, provided the name for The Chelsea Symphony. Dai's The Night Before Christmas premiered less than two blocks from the site of the original poem's writing.

The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)

The Night Before Christmas (Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1913 silent film made in the Russian Empire by Ladislas Starevich, based on the tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Unlike most of Starevich's films, it is mainly live-action.

Plot

The plot is, on the whole, close to Gogol's classic tale.

The action is set in a Cossack stanitsa. On Christmas Eve, a minor demon arrives to a local witch called Solokha. They both ride on the witch's broom, after which the demon steals the Moon and hides in an old rag. In the ensuing darkness, some inebriated Cossacks can't find their way to a shinok (tavern) and decide to go home. One by one, they each come to visit Soloha, who hides each one (starting from the demon) in bags so that none of them see each other. At the same time, Solokha's son Vakula the Metalsmith (P. Lopukhin), tries to woo the beauty Oksana (Olga Obolenskaya), but she laughs at him and demands that he find her the shoes which the Tsarina wears. Vakula goes to Soloha in sadness, but upon coming there sees the bags and decides to take them to the forge. Getting tired along the way, he leaves the heaviest bags on the street, which are picked up by a caroling company. Vakula, who is left only with the bag containing the demon, goes to Patsyuk, a sorcerer, to ask him how to find a demon - only with the help of a demon can he hope to get Tsarina's shoes.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1977 TV special)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1977 made-for-television special loosely inspired by the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.

Plot

The story is set on Christmas Eve in a New England town in the late 1890s. The Cosgrove family’s home is in an uproar over the holidays. The patriarch, Clark Cosgrove (Paul Lynde) is frazzled by the gift demands of his loud children. His wife Nellie (Anne Meara) runs into endless friction with Clark’s formidable mother (Alice Ghostley), who lives with them. Nellie’s inebriated father (Foster Brooks) and cat-loving mother (Martha Raye) arrive for the holiday, and tensions arise between the mothers-in-law. A German uncle (Howard Morris) is also arriving, but complications ensue when a traveling salesman (George Gobel) is mistaken for the uncle. Adding to the tumult is a visit from a caroling neighbor (Anson Williams). During the night, Clark’s mother-in-law’s cat escapes from the house and winds up on the roof. Clark goes to retrieve the cat and creates a ruckus, waking the house. When the children ask if the noise came from Santa Claus, Clark initially wants to dispel the myth of Santa Claus. Instead, he appeases them by reciting A Visit from St. Nicholas.

Twas the Night Before Christmas (smoke-free version)

Twas the Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century, published by Pamela McColl's Grafton and Scratch Publishing in 2012, is a smoke-free version of the classic poem attributed to Clement C. Moore. The book has been translated and published in four different languages.

Background

The book has been covered in media including USA Today,The New York Post, BBC, National Post,Huffington Post,The Guardian, CBC The Current,The View, NPR, The Scotsman, NBC Nightly News, Vanity Fair, and The Telegraph,.

Awards and reception

The book has won seven book awards including four Benjamin Franklin Book Awards through the Independent Book Publisher’s Association, a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, and a Mom’s Choice Award along with a Global International Ebook Award.

The Stephen Colbert Show created a segment based on this version of the famous holiday poem A Visit From St. Nicholas.

McColl was also called as an expert witness during a trial over the dispute of authorship of the classic poem.

Twas the Night Before Christmas (disambiguation)

"Twas the Night Before Christmas" is an alternative title of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.

Twas the Night Before Christmas may also refer to:

See also