"Santa's Surprise" is an 8.5-minute cartoon from 1947, so this one has its 70th anniversary this year. The names of director Seymour Kneitel and voice actors Mercer and Questel may be known to those who love animated (short) films from the old days, the Golden Age of Animation. This one here is a little work for Christmas and the tables are turned as a gang of kids gets the presents to Santa this time and they come from all kinds of different places as you see from their looks and skin colors. This is basically all the story that is to it. The introduction to Santa in the first 2 minutes felt really random and the story overall was a bit thin here. This Little Audrey film by Famous Studios never really makes an impact, even if it admittedly gets a bit better after the first 2 minutes, mostly because the character animation for the kids is way better than Santa's. But the plot is never really on an interesting level and even the music is underwhelming. Quite a shame. This could have been much better with more attention to detail as the general idea is fairly solid. I give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

BEWARE OF FALSE REVIEWS & REVIEWERS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM . NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 HOLIDAY FILMS. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM HONEST Santa's Surprise is a 1947 Christmas-themed Noveltoon animated short. It was originally released by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1947.As Santa delivers presents to Audrey and some other children, they slip into his sleigh to repay him by cleaning up his house, often with a clumsy Dutch boy's antics.This animated short is cute. Keep in mind there was no such thing as politically correct when this was made. Some images "MIGHT BE" offensive to some.

This yet another Christmas short, This is only nine min9 short CartoonI though this was really well made,The cartoon as some very sweet moments, there also some good musical moments which are really limited, the songs were decent and fitted the inreally well. This short as very good and funny, fun for the whole family.The writing was really good too,The Animation was good, for the times, some may find it a little out dated.I think kids, even these days, will really enjoyed this short, it very wellI going give this 8 out of 10

This is a cartoon about some kids who decide that since Santa does so much for them every year, they should do something for him. So they break into his house and attempt to help him clean.Like so many things from the 1940s, this cartoon is full of what would today be considered offensive racial stereotypes in what was probably an attempt at diversity. Check out the design on the black and Chinese kids, especially.The animation is very cheap and the songs are pretty bad, but it does have some charming (cute) sight-gags. And it's only nine minutes long, so you won't waste too much of your life.