00:00Doggone thing always conks out when you...
00:02Well, hello there.
00:04My name's Special Delivery Kluger, S.D. for short.
00:08Oh, I've got lots of letters for Santa today.
00:11And every year they're the same.
00:13Some ask for toys, but a lot ask questions.
00:17Like you take this one.
00:18I bet one of you wrote it.
00:20Dear Santa, why do you wear a red suit?
00:23Uh-huh, I thought so.
00:25And this one.
00:26My turn.
00:26Dear Santa, why do you come down the chimney when I'm asleep?
00:30How about these?
00:31Why do you have whiskers?
00:33Why do you live at the North Pole?
00:35Why do you leave presents at...
00:36Why do you always come on Christmas Eve?
00:38Why some people call you Chris Kinga?
00:41Why?
00:42Why?
00:42Now, hold on, hold on.
00:44I can answer all your questions because I know everything about Santa.
00:49Now, Santa is a busy man.
00:52He has no time to play.
00:53He's got millions and millions of stockings to fill on Christmas Day.
00:59So, you'd better write your letter now.
01:01And mail it right away.
01:04Because he's getting ready with his reindeers and his sled.
01:09So, you want to know all about Santa, eh?
01:12Best place to start is at the very beginning, when Santa was just a little baby.
01:17You mean Santa was once a baby?
01:20Of course.
01:22Everybody's got to be a baby at least once in their lives.
01:25Now, this was years and years ago.
01:27Oh, way back.
01:29In one of the northern countries, there was a small city called Sombra Town.
01:34It was a cold, cold place which shivered in the shadows of the strange mountain of the whispering winds.
01:41Now, the main reason for all this gloom was the mayor.
01:44A mean old grouch of a fellow who was known as Burger Meister Meister Burger.
01:51Well, that strange wind blew the little sleigh right up to the mountain of the whispering winds.
01:56For, you see, that mountain was the home of the awful, the terrible, oh, I hate to even say his
02:02name.
02:03That mountain was the home of the winter warlock.
02:09The strange hermit of the north, who lived alone in a ghostly palace of ice, practicing his strange spells and
02:18snowy incantations.
02:20The animals knew they had to hide that baby fast.
02:23They knew where that baby belonged.
02:25So, quick as they could, they started on their way.
02:28Where?
02:29Where?
02:29Well, you see, just beyond the mountain was Rainbow River Valley.
02:33And there, by a bend in the magical stream, was the home of a jolly family of little people.
02:40Elves, you might call them.
02:42Yes?
02:43Who's there?
02:44There's who?
02:46Ooh!
02:47Wiggle my ears and tickle my toes, methinks I see a baby's nose.
02:52It's more than a nose.
02:53There's a whole baby attached to it.
02:56Better call my brothers.
02:58Wingo!
02:59Bingo!
02:59Tingle!
03:00Zingle!
03:01Zingle!
03:01What is it, Bingo?
03:02It's a baby, Zingle.
03:04A baby what, Wingo?
03:06A baby baby, Kingo.
03:09I like babies, Zingle.
03:11Our babies, the best baby of them all, Wingo.
03:15It's really quite sad.
03:17We will never be able to transport our toys over the mountain.
03:20Someday when I'm bigger, I'll take them for you, Tanta Kringle.
03:24Ah, that will be the day.
03:26We will be great toy makers again as we once were.
03:30When was that, Tanta?
03:31Huh?
03:31Oh, years and years ago, the Kringles were world-renowned.
03:36For, you know, we were the very first royal toy makers.
03:40The first toy makers to the king.
03:42I was awake anyhow.
03:43I made this for your trip.
03:46Ho, ho, ho, ho!
03:47I'm a man now, Tanta.
03:49I can take those toys across the mountain of the whispering winds.
03:53It's decided then.
03:54Tomorrow, I leave for Sombra Town.
03:58Tanta Kringle?
04:00Ah, I was just packing.
04:02Did I wake you up?
04:03A real Kringle suit.
04:07Why, you're a penguin.
04:09Well, what is a penguin doing here?
04:13You're looking for a stake?
04:14A branch.
04:15A log?
04:16A pole?
04:17The North Pole?
04:18No?
04:19The South Pole?
04:21Well, little fella, that's on the other end of the earth.
04:23You're just about as lost as you can get.
04:26You better travel with me.
04:27You need someone to take care of you.
04:29Now, now, cut that out.
04:31Come on, Topper.
04:33I'll call you Topper.
04:35Okay?
04:36Come on.
04:37This way, little fella.
04:39And look!
04:40Sombra Town.
04:41Just sitting there waiting for us and our good Kringle toys.
04:46Where are you, baby claws?
04:48Oh, do come back.
04:50Come back!
04:51As I suspected, you've broken your funny bone.
04:55This, sir.
04:56It's a difficult responsibility
05:02that he extracts from the number one lockkeeper, me.
05:07Be it known throughout the land
05:10from sea to sea
05:13there'll be no more
05:16toy makers
05:18to the king.
05:21What?
05:21What, Grinsley?
05:22The milk?
05:23The daily paper?
05:24Oh, is that all?
05:26Aye.
05:28Burger Meister, Meister Burger
05:29take care of a baby?
05:32Outrageous!
05:33What's its name?
05:34Oh, take the little baggage
05:37to the orphan asylum.
05:38That's the proper place
05:40for foundlings anyway.
05:41Either they are going
05:43or I am going.
05:44I have a job for you to do.
05:46Now, take this down.
05:48Toys are hereby declared
05:50illegal,
05:51immoral,
05:52unlawful,
05:53and
05:54anyone found with a toy
05:56in his possession
05:57will be placed under arrest
06:00and thrown in the dungeon.
06:02I see all the little children
06:05are playing with their toys.
06:08You brats are under arrest.
06:10Take them away.
06:11You?
06:12How dare you?
06:14You are obviously
06:15a non-conformist
06:17and a rebel.
06:18Arrest this man immediately.
06:20Ooh,
06:21I have been bamboozled.
06:23Arrest him.
06:24This is outrageous.
06:26What sort of criminal
06:28is this Kringle?
06:29Sneaking into houses
06:31by night.
06:32I hereby decree
06:34that all the town's
06:35doors and windows
06:36will be locked tight
06:38against this prowler.
06:40More toys
06:41discovered by the hearths
06:43and the mantelpieces.
06:45If any more toys
06:47are found by the fireplace,
06:48they will be confiscated.
06:50So be it.
06:52Search the premises.
06:53If you find so much
06:55as one marble
06:55or half a jack,
06:57the house
06:58is under arrest.
06:59Double time.
07:01Good.
07:02Nothing but
07:03drying stockings.
07:05As is proper.
07:07About.
07:08For more toys,
07:11I will do
07:12what I should have done
07:13a long time ago.
07:14I will set a trap
07:16for that bothersome Kringle
07:18to the dungeon.
07:20Children of Sombartown,
07:22you will never,
07:23never play again.
07:26What good are your promises
07:28and good riddance?
07:31We Meisterburgers
07:32shall hunt them down
07:34throughout the land.
07:35Those rebels
07:36will not have
07:37one moment's peace
07:38until they are
07:39captured again.
07:40who nears
07:42my mountain.
07:45Go back.
07:46Or you are.
07:48I shall get him
07:50when he returns.
07:51He's got to cross
07:52my mountain
07:53on the way home.
07:55And then,
07:56ha, ha, ha,
07:58no more
07:58being the nice guy.
08:01Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
08:04Uh-huh.
08:05It's one of our
08:05daily duties.
08:07Then we hang them
08:08by the fireplace
08:09so they dry overnight.
08:11That's the only way
08:11they judge you
08:12around here,
08:13by how many chores
08:14you do
08:15and how clean
08:15your stockings are.
08:16You must not
08:18play with toys.
08:19And what do you mean
08:20by giving the children
08:21toys?
08:22Don't you know
08:23toys are against
08:24the law?
08:25If the Burgermeister
08:26saw you,
08:27we would all
08:27be in great danger.
08:29Toys are frivolous,
08:31impractical,
08:33unproductive,
08:34and a china doll.
08:36I always wanted
08:38one when I was
08:38a little girl.
08:39But my parents
08:40wouldn't thank you.
08:42I mean,
08:43well,
08:44maybe it is
08:45a silly law.
08:46I promise
08:47they will never
08:48disturb you again.
08:49My own town
08:50turned against me.
08:52Well,
08:53my eyes are
08:54beginning to open
08:55for the very first time
08:56to what life
08:57is really all about.
08:59And I know
09:00just where I belong.
09:02With Chris.
09:03Wherever he is.
09:05Today is not the end.
09:07It's only the beginning.
09:09Well,
09:10load up the sleigh.
09:12It turned into
09:13quite a proposition.
09:14I can hardly
09:15keep up with the orders.
09:16I'm afraid
09:17I'm going to have
09:18to limit my journeys
09:19to
09:20a one a year.
09:22But on which night
09:23should I go out?
09:24I wonder.
09:26How goes it,
09:27Mr. Warlock?
09:29Wonderful!
09:30Then let's be off.
09:33Away
09:39Christmas is a bother.
09:41The noise,
09:42the crowds,
09:43I really wish
09:44it were outlawed.
09:45How can they talk
09:46about Santa Claus
09:47when there's so much
09:48unhappiness
09:49in the world?
09:50Poole
09:50You
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