This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:
Episode #118 – Christmas Time in Santa Heim was discussed.
Question of the Day: When was the first Christmas film made?
Retrosponsor: Dole Pineapple Juice and Dole Pineapple Gems
The three commercials featured in this Retrocast are from the Christmas episode of the Al Pearce Show, which was broadcast on December 20, 1939.
Tidbits:
An Unusual Christmas Tree (1900)
A Reindeer Nips a Boy’s Finger (1954)
How to Fill a Giant Christmas Stocking (1965)
Footnotes to History
Santa Claus Has Trouble Getting Down This Chimney (1937)
Early Greeting Might Be Said In Bad Taste (1948)
Ontario Boy Given Snake by Museum (1949)
Absent-Minded Santa Claus (1953)
Christmases Have Merry Christmas (1958)
Please stop including your wife! The semi back and forth ruins your shows!
I am sorry to hear that you feel that way. The good news is that the next show, which goes live early Thursday morning is just me. I plan on recording most of the longer stories by myself, although I do plan on having a historian on shortly to discuss one of those stories. Steve 🙂