The Elf and Mr. Little (1953) Christmas Marionette Puppet Film

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THE ELF AND MR. LITTLE (1953)

Marionette puppets tell their short story with Christmas carols and help from a strange little elf.

We enter The Little Story Shop, with Mr. and Mrs. Little telling us a Christmas tale. It appears Mr. Little was quite the Scrooge back in the day. Carolers were aplenty, always singing, and it drove him nuts just like you will be by the end of the video. (There will be a distraction to many South Park fans because Mrs. Little sounds just like Eric Cartman's Mother.) Mrs. Little goes on to tell the story of how Mr. Little has become such a whiny bastard because he clearly needs help at his toy shop. He indirectly wishes for it, and magically an annoying little elf appears! You want to shoot the elf in the head in the first 30 seconds due to his chalkboard scratching voice. The little troll doll does do plenty of work to help the cranky fart out. Soon the wood lawn ornament on strings gets a woody for a chick passing by staring at a doll in the shop window. It's plain to see that in order for her to get the doll for free, she will have to suffer a few splinters from the elf that probably lives in a van down by the river.

Mr. Little, who should just shut the hell up and be happy about the work getting done, instead turns into a drama queen. Basically overly pessimistic because everything is going so well for him. He wonders what he should pay the Elf, if anything, for helping him make all the toys. Meanwhile, the travelocity gnome is clearly going to be porking the female meat puppet soon as she keeps staring at the damn doll she wants.

Chrismtas Eve comes, and all the toys are sold, except for the doll in the window, which is still being stared at by the hollow ho. She must have lifted her bloomers because she got the attention of the keebleresque character, once again. Well, it must have been his timber talking, because the oomph loompa screams "I Want My Pay"! Since big Mr. Little never negotiated a deal with the elf, he did say he could have anything he wanted. And, of course, the troll worked all this time, but the only thing he wants is the doll. Then he can give it to the fireplace teaser so he's warm on Christmas eve and maybe get her to jingle his bells.

Mr. Little is so confused as to how one toy doll could be the only payment the elf wanted. It was clearly feeding his suspicion that his worker might very well be a fairy, and not an elf after all. So bossman follows the elf's trail while Mrs. Cartman sits at home. We follow the caroling voices from the Village of the Damned children, who are following the girl into a church. All of the carolers are boys, and the number of boys keep getting smaller from the choir, but there is no sign of the Priest. hmmm.

Mr. Little followed the elf, who was following the choir, following the girl after his wooden heart. Elfman finds the girl and gives her the doll. She then had to play the "i'm so surprised" thing. Meanwhile, Mr. Little has some type of life altering experience. (Insert moral lesson here.)

The backstreet choir boys warble "Joy To The World" and while Mr. Little leaves the church, he pretty much looks like he is having a stroke with one eye open with the other closed, while walking like he sat on a stick. Another disease of some sort starts kicking in while he tries to wish us all a Merry Christmas.

Apparently the moral of the story is that there is much more to Christmas than toys but he's a toymaker and the girl still got the toy and what else was there? Oh, yeah, making sweet love to an oompa loompa in a van down by the river.

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Set and Marionettes Created by Rex Castle
Story by Peter Son
Voices by Fran Tolleson and Jack Beveridge
Youth choir directed by Hervey Mastin

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[jetsaw223]

i now have nightmares

[XmasFLIX]

@jetsaw223 you think that was bad, watch "The Snowman"... not Frosty. Go to my main channel and scroll. :-)

[JDVANCLEEF]

Thank You Very Much for Posting this, if Children today would take the time to watch things like this they would enjoy their Childhood even More, imagination is a wonderful thing and it only last a short time, I wish I could get these on DVD Merry Christmas to You this was Most Enjoyible. I am glad I lived in the 50's.

[imsweetazshuga]

this video freaks me out!!!

[zincink]

Nice description lol -. That elf clearly had way to much caffeine cause he had the shakes the first time they show him - I never saw this before, it was lulzy

[deliciousdazmo]

magical

[punki1963]

I love that unselfish little elf!

[Diddauberalles]

this is amazing, nothing like creepy children's shows at christmas:) never saw this before, thanks! JUST SAY NO TO ELVES

[jetsaw223]

CREEPYY

[hugs190274]

thanks

[orchidgal8]

OMG i love this video! I used to watch it all of the time when i was a kid in teh 90s. We had it on a little video tape, it was awesome! Thanks for posting (: