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4.414R. HURON EXPOSITOR, SERPORTO, ONT., DEC" 1949
• A MOUSE AND HIS CHRISTMAS PROBLEM is the subject of
an animated cartoon, called "Peter's Christmas." The story he-
gins happily ort December 23rd, when Peter's mother sends hint
to the store for some groceries. The delectable teen-age mouse is
his sister, Ellen.
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PETER TRIES ALL OF DECEMBER 23rd and 24th, but still the,
rock bars. the doorway. Knowing that Santa won't leave him any
presents witless he is in bed, he. falls to the ground crying. But
then he gets a Inilliant idea. If Santa can slide down the chimney,
su can Peter!
Aft
PETF.R FINDS THE GOING A BIT ROUGH about half way
down, since lie is new at chimney-sliding compared to Santa. But
our hero doe's manage it .and snuggles down into bed just before
0.414' ma arrives with his pri:Sents. And so Peter has a very Merry
IGIltristmas after all.
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0 fortunate, 0 happy day!
When a new household finds its place
Among the myriad, homes of earth,
Like'a new star juft sprung to birth
And rolled on its harmonius way
Into the-boundless realms of space!
So said the guests in speech and song,
As in the chimney burning bright,
We hung the iron crane to-night,
And merry was the feast and long.
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FR9IVI A TEEN-AGE MCI►V1 -MA fir*
Once upon a time in Bloomington, Ind., there lived a small
ruous,e who was a very woeful character, barred from his
Moine house by a rock that rolled down a hill and blocked
the front door on Christmas Eve.
Peter was the mouse's name, given him by a 16-year-old
fun-maker named Gerald'st). Reynolds, who wrote and pro-
duced "Peter's Christmas."
The Plot Thickens
Since it was the day before Christmas (in the film) and
Peter had to be in bed if he was to receive any presents from
Santa, Peter tried everything to move the rock.
Finally, his thoughts of Santa inspired him. He slid down
the chimney. just in time to have a merry Christmas after all.
And just in time to a prize for his creator in the Kodak
Teen-Age Movie Awards com-
petition.
For "Peter's Christmas,"
Gerald Reynolds won a spe-
cial award for cartoon ani-
mation. 'The film included
more than .800 drawings —
half on paper and half on
celluloid — and 25 back-
grounds.
From the judges he got
high Praise — "remarkably
well-done," "good job of ani-
mation," "displays consider-_
able technical. and creative
ability."
Gerald was one of hun-
dreds of young film-makers
in the competition that Ko-
dak sponsors annually in co-
operation with the University
Film Foundation on behalf
of the University Film Asso-
ciation, whose members serve
as judges, and the Council for
International Nontheatrical
Events, which chooses films
from among the winners for
showing at foreign film fes-
tivals.
Conortionigting Ideas
Most of all he is a member
of today's young film gener-
ation, a group to which the
camera is almost as familiar
as- the pencil for communi-
cating ideas,
Young people all over the
country are making films to-
day, Students at Drake High
School in San Anselmo, Calif.,
produced "The Idaho Test,"
a satire on standardized test-
ing.
A group of Long Island
students produded "For
Whom The Torch Burns," a
90-minute thriller spoofing a
plot to kidnap the Statue of
Liberty.
Dream BloWers — A Story of
mond, Calif., made "The
Sand, Sound and Soul," a
$100.
16mm dream fantasy, for
And teen-agers in Rich
community Christmas tree
began in the early 1900's and
is a favorite custom today.
TRIMMING TREE
Tradition of decorating a
In addition to the high
school crowd, movie-making
appeals to innercity groups.
It's especially booming on
the college campus where an
estimated 2,500 courses in
film production and appre-
PROBLEMS START' POPPING UP WHEN Peter returns front the
store with a big bag of cheese. He finds that a huge rock has rolled .
off a passing truck and is barring the entrance to the Mouse
House. Ile tries pushing, shoving and leverage with a big stick,
hut to no avail.
to all our many friends
and acquaintances
Hanny Shou r and Family
formerly of the Queen's Hotel, Seaforth
and now at
Central Chev. in London, Ont.
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"PETER'S CHRISTMAS" tells..
the story of a mouse barred
front his mouse house on
Christmas Eve. The film, by
Gerald D. Reynolds, won a spa,-
end, a ward in die Kodak Teen.
Age Movie Awards competition.
ciation are currently offered
in the United States.
For Fun or Career
Most of these young people
make movies for the sheer
joy of it, but for some, movie-
making is pointing the way
to career opportunities.
"I would like to have a
Small animation studio or
work for one," says Gerald
Reynolds, who also is inter-
ested in television writing.
For Gerald, "Peter's Christ-
mas" gave a chance to tell
the story as he envisioned it.
And for all the movie gen-
eration, encouraged by new
easy-to-use cameras and
dedicated to seriousness of
purpose, the movie route ap-
pears the most natural, crea-
tive way in the world to make
A statement,.
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nimated Mouse Solves Yule Probkm
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WISHING YOU AND YOURS THE
BEST THIS SE4SON HAS TO GIVE.
AND TO ALL OUR PATRONS WE
EXTEND OUR HEARTIEST GRATITUDE
FOR THEIR LOYAL SUPPORT.
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CLEANER
EARLY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS WERE sometimes devoted to themes other than the Yule
-Season — witness this excerpt from an antique card, showing a portrait of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow and lines from his poem, "The Hanging of the Crane." Longfellow's "The Village
Blacksmith" appeared on the same card. The card is from the Hallmark Historical Collection.
Famous Writers Find New Ways to Say,
Ryghte Merrie Chrystmasse Toe You
No Smoke, PO Odour
of
Great writers of every age
since medieval times have
made contributions 63 the
various expressions and
phrases that are associated
with Christmas)
Such expregsions as, "A
Ryglite Merrie Chrystmasse
Toe You," have now become
archaic and the'' spelling
quaint, But the continued
exchange of Christmas cards
flever the years has been a
Atrong influence in preserv-
ing the traditional words, or
greetings, associated with the
season.
From the very beginning
of greeting cards, prime im-
portance was placed on the
message Itself. In fact, some
of the earliest cards were
simply greetings with sprigs
or borders of holly on an oth-
erwise plain card.
But then, as early as the
1880's in England and also
in America, verses appropri-
ate to the season and com-
posed by famous authors,
were proving• popular on
Chrlatznas cards.
One such poem by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow —
Vrith a portrait of the emi-
nent gentleman,--•appears
On one of the aniriues In the
Raihriaric litsterin'al Conde-
treasury of more than
.50,00 greetings which 0°-
0(104 a variety Of the ex-
,preSSIO0.4 ofgood Cheer, and
Ph/IMAM rvi he oy tarnetta
writers over the years.
The age old message of the
season is to be found in to-
day's Christmas cards, ex-
pressed in poetry and prose
by such outstanding literary
figures of the past and pres-
ent as William Shakespeare,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Sara Teesdale and, more re-
cently, T. S, Eliot, Archibald
MacLeish, William Carlos
Williams and the late Rus-
sian writer, Boris Pasternak,
Pasternak's "The Christ-
mas Pine Tree" has been ex-
cerpted for a greeting card
which reads in part:
I love her to tears, at sight,
from the first,
As she comes from the woods
itt storm and snow.
So awkward her brunches, the
shyest of firs!
We fashion her.threads un-
hurriedly, slow.
Her garments of silvery, gos-
samer lace,
Patterns of tinsel, and span-
gles aglow
}From branch unto branch,
-• down to the base
I love her to tears, from the
first, so bright
In a crowd of friends on
Christmas night."
Portions of Sir Walter
SOWS "Mat-Mien" have beep
usW for still another Christ-
" Inas card verse;
"England was merry England
when
fill ,thrIsinies htenteitt his
sports again.
The damsel donned her kirtle
sheen;
The hall was dressed with
holly green;
Forth to the wood did merry.
men go
To gather in the mistletoe.
'Twas Christmas broached the
mightiest ale;
'Twos Christmas told t he
nterroWtsfule;
A Christmas gambol oft would
cheer
The poor man's heart through
half the year."
In a lighter vein, one of
America's most popular vers-
ifiers, Ogden Nash, has con-
tributed his own Inimitable
style and thoughts to the
spirit of Christmas greetings
with several mirth-provoking
stanzas such as the follow-
ing:
"Our halls are decked •with
boughs of holly,
And trimmings red and green
„and jolly;
We get -that old time Christ-
mat feeling
While tacking wreaths from
floor to (:eiling.
To you we sipped a Yuletide
cup
While hanging decorations
up;
Olt, how we wish you were in
town ---•
you could help us take
Wein down!"
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of this joyous holiday
season. Permit us to wish
you and yours a very Merry Christmas,
and to extend our sincerest appreciation
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the ever-lasting meaning of the
Christmas season lives in a
single word — peace. As .we all
celebrate with merriment of the
season, let us pause also to
recall its timeless message of
peace and good will toward men.
And . let us thank you for youi
kind patronage all year long,
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