Searching For Santa!

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Searching For Santa!
Directed by	Bill Nolan
Produced by	Margaret J. Winkler
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Winkler Pictures
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	1925 (1925)
Running time	3:53
Language	English

Searching For Santa! is a silent short film by Winkler Pictures, starring Krazy Kat. The cartoon was thought to be lost but was rediscovered in 2004.

Plot

Krazy is spending some time at a house with a human boy. The boy suddenly gets bored and starts crying. To entertain his friend, Krazy shows him a ball, but the boy just kicks it away in apathy. When the cat asks what the boy wants, the bawling boy wishes for Santa Claus to visit them. Krazy then sets off towards the North Pole to fulfill his friend's wish.

On his journey to find Santa, Krazy enters what looks like a subway station in the city. He goes through a secret passage inside and eventually reaches the exit at the Arctic. He then tries to ask the locals for directions, starting with what he thinks is an Eskimo. It turns out the "Eskimo" is a vicious polar bear which chases him. To lose the bruin from behind, Krazy constructs a sled with a sail on top. It is a smooth ride until he runs off the edge of a chasm.

At the bottom of the chasm, Krazy finds a turntable and a record. He plays the record on the player and dances, attempting to carol someone out of an igloo, but no one comes out. While he is still standing and thinking what to do, a hostile sea lion hurls a snow ball at him. The impact sends him bouncing into an Eskimo woman. The Eskimo woman responds by hurling Krazy back to the sea lion. The cartoon concludes with the sea lion having fun in rebounding the airborne feline.

Notes

This is among the last theatrical films that feature Krazy in George Herriman's original design.
The boy in the cartoon bears a resemblance to Willie Jones, the former human friend of Felix the Cat.

References

External links

Krazy Kat

Films

Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G'
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him
Krazy Kat Invalid
The Great Cheese Robbery
Love's Labor Lost
The Best Mouse Loses
The Awful Spook
The Wireless Wire-Walkers
Bokays and Brickbatz
Searching For Santa!
A Barnyard Frolic
Dentist Love
Feather Duster
Stomach Trouble
Rail Rode
The Stork Exchange
Sleepy Holler
Ratskin
Port Whines
Farm Relief
Slow Beau
Alaskan Knights
Jazz Rhythm
The Bandmaster
The Apache Kid
Rodeo Dough
Disarmament Conference
Soda Poppa
Svengarlic
Weenie Roast
Bars and Stripes
Hash House Blues
Taken for a Ride
Piano Mover
Hollywood Goes Krazy
Birth of Jazz
Ritzy Hotel
Seeing Stars
Prosperity Blues
The Crystal Gazebo
The Minstrel Show
Snow Time
Wedding Bells
The Medicine Show
The Broadway Malady
Russian Dressing
Antique Antics
Out of the Ether
Krazy Spooks
The Bill Poster
The Autograph Hunter
Southern Exposure
Bowery Daze
The Trapeze Artist
The Katnips of 1940
Krazy's Waterloo
The Peace Conference
A Happy Family
Kannibal Kapers
Lil' Ainjil
The Lyin' Hunter
Krazy's Race of Time
Railroad Rhythm
The Lone Mountie
The Little Lost Sheep
The Mouse Exterminator

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