The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)
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The Night Before Christmas is a 1951 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's story The Night Before Christmas.
The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as "Éclair" in the Soviet Union, and is an example of the Socialist-Realist period in Russian animation.
The film is in the public domain in Russia and is widely available on numerous video/DVD releases, mostly along with other films.
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