The music, unlike the two other segments, strays away from guitar and is played by an organ. The final segment is a little cartoon man decorating the ultimate Christmas tree. The clown then joins back into the movie following electric music. The background music is a fast guitar, accompanied with a bass guitar playing jazz. In this short film is a tin butterfly, alligator, bird, robot, clown, and cat.
The second segment is stop-motion animation of toys coming to life.
As the guitar progresses, the cutout animation figures’ dancing accelerates. The figures are wearing trapezoids as clothing with boots. The first of three segments presented by the clown displays two cutout animation figures dance together while a guitar rendition of " Jingle Bells".
Between each segment, the clown does a short transition while a chiptune rendition of " The Holly and the Ivy" plays. It was nominated for an Oscar in 1965.Ĭhristmas Cracker features Grant Munro as a playful clown who presents three segments: a rendition of " Jingle Bells" in which cutout animation figures dance, a dime-store rodeo of tin toys and a story about decorating the perfect Christmas tree with a Christmas star. Christmas Cracker (French: Caprice de Noël) is a 1963 animated short about Christmas, co-directed by Norman McLaren, Gerald Potterton, Grant Munro and Jeff Hale for the National Film Board of Canada.
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