Product details: - Product group: Video
- Edition: VHS Tape
- Publisher: Buena Vista Home Ent
- Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
- Release Date: 1996-10-01
- Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Run Time: 47 minutes
- Studio: Buena Vista Home Ent
- Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Ent
- Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 41 x 75 inches
Customer reviews:  "Don't you kinda love December When the merry snowbells chime? We're together once upon a wintertime", 2009-12-08
I was four years old in 1984 when the Disney Channel was brand new, and even though we didn't have a lot of money at the time, my mother saw fit to get that "premium" cable channel for us. I can tell you, it had one of the most lasting effects on me personally, and certainly on my family, as a whole. Those were the good old days of Disney tv programs. The cartoons, films, programs, and even the original Disney Channel movies were all classics that we looked forward to every day. For me, they all represented the imaginative humor of Walt Disney and were nothing short of magical. Alas, those days are gone!
This video (along with Jiminy Cricket's Christmas) was one of the excellent programs that would air on Christmas Eve throughout the mid- to late-1980's and early '90s. Right before it started, my younger sister and I would hurry to turn on the Christmas tree lights, quickly snatch and curl up with a blanket, and be absolutely mesmerized for 47 fun-filled minutes.
There are some great Disney choir original songs on the video in between some classic Disney Christmas cartoons and snippets from feature-length films. During the songs, it shows some really neat antique Disney character toys under a tree. But that's just the cool edge that you'd expect from this company. The real meat of this video is the compilation of some great hard-to-find cartoons. I won't put a complete list of the cartoons that are featured on this review, but a couple of my favorites are "Once Upon a Winter Time" (1948) and the 1933 color Silly Symphony rarity, "The Night Before Christmas" showing jolly Old Saint Nicholas visiting a house full of sleeping kids and filling their stockings. Of course, there are several classic features including Donald Duck and other familiar characters.
If you love any of the old-time Disney cartoons (which -- let's be honest -- are actually TRULY funny, unlike most of these newer programs), then you will love this old VHS. Get your hands on a copy. (While we're on the subject, why doesn't Disney come out with a "Disney Classics Channel"?! I'd be the first in line!)
Now that I'm in my late 20's with our first child due a few days before Christmas, I am SO excited to share future Christmas Eves with him, carrying on the same tradition of watching this program the night before Santa comes, just as I did 20+ years ago with my little sister.
No one does Christmas like Disney!, 2009-08-24
A Disney Christmas Gift is the Holiday equivallent to Disney's Halloween Treat. It starts out with the wonderfull music only story of the young couple and the young rabbit couple. It also boasts the family favorite where Chip& Dale end up in Mickey and Plutos Christmas tree and Twas the Night before Christmas in which the Old Disney Santa stops to play with the toys until he wakes up the 8+ little kiddies all out of one bed. It also has clips from Bambi, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and Sword in the Stone. My kids watch it spell bound, just as I did 20+ years ago. No it isn't some new fangled animated digi-fied anything. It is just good old fashioned family quality Disney. What can I say... My favorite! Customers who bought this item also bought:
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