The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

BEWARE OF FALSE REVIEWS & REVIEWERS. Some people only review one film. When it just one review you cant trust them no matter what their opinion may be. I have reviewed over 200 Holiday films. i have no agenda .The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives is a Christmas-themed Merrie Melodies cartoon short, originally released in 1933. It makes use of a Great Depression setting of Christmas where Santa Claus is seeking shelter. The short takes place at a shantytown; hence the name "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives".Shot in black and white which adds to the tone of the overall animated short. Should be seen by everyone.

. . . Warner Bros.' warning division of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, their Looney Tunes prognosticators) were WITTING prophets of the upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti facing We Americans of (the then) Far Future, or rather were receiving their Cassandra-like Revelations in a trance-like state of Mass Psychosis. When one examines THE SHANTY WHERE SANTA CLAUS LIVES for clues to answering this burning question, it's best to view SHANTY with its live-action prologue in the 8 minute, 53 second version. There we see a family of four (plus a mutt) gathered under the family Christmas Tree as Proud Pops screens SHANTY in lieu of any other Christmas presents. About six minutes later, the Yule Tree in Santa's SHANTY catches fire! It's hard to imagine a more ominous set of circumstances, especially in the midst of Holiday Season. No one in their right mind would INTENTIONALLY create such Dark Art. But think about it. The recent fire sale of America to our new American Czar the Red Commie KGB Monster Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin and his Puppet Rump occurred during the middle of a snowy Holiday Season, just as pictured by the Looney Tuners here. The orphan boy bamboozled into a Death Ride on Santa's Sleigh to a Siberian Gulag Fire Trap obviously symbolizes Czar Putin's deluded Red State Enablers, those folks guilty of conspiring to commit High Treason against America's Hallowed Constitution by activating its Racist "Electoral College" self-destruct clause for the fifth and final time (ALL FIVE crimes against Democracy perpetrated by what's now been co-opted as Putin's Deplorable Party; though America suffered mightily in the previous four instances of Racist Electoral College Meddling, this fifth outrage threatens to end us!). Certainly the weight of the evidence is that the Looney Tuners are America's Leading Oracles through Divine Intervention, rather than being conscious Futurists.

There's not much special about this good-hearted, warm cartoon expect that it is just that, and kudos for that. A little boy, moping along at Christmas with no gifts and who lives in a barren shanty is suddenly taken to another shanty at the North Pole by Santa Claus himself.From that point, the cartoon is a musical where the title song is sung several times and we see little toys coming to life, singing and dancing. When one of them accidentally sets the Christmas tree on fire, the kid saves the day by figuring out a way to put it out. He's the hero; end of story. The song is catchy and typically upbeat '30s stuff. In one part, there is a little takeoff on Kate Smith (or at least someone who looks like her.) I saw this as one of the bonus features on the "Lady Killer" DVD. That's the Lady Killer film starring Jimmy Cagney.

This Hugh Harmon-Rudy Ising Merrie Melodies cartoon short produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. tells the story of a poor boy who gets invited by Santa to go with him to his shanty to watch all the toys come to life. That's basically the plot of the story with some unfortunate blackface stereotypes in some scenes. Still mostly enjoyable with some entertaining musical sequences like the title song and a Kate Smith doll singing, "Shine on Harvest Moon". It was during this period that the Merrie Melodies shorts' purpose was to showcase a song that was published by the Warner Bros. publisher in each short with the showcased song's title the name of the film. That's the case here. Recommended for anyone who are Warner cartoon completists.