Watch A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

When a rich boy learns from a poor girl that she does not believe in Santa Claus because he has never visited her, the boy decides to get to the bottom of this travesty. You've never seen anything like what happens next. This 1907 Edison short directed by Edwin S. Porter employs simple techniques of superimposition and cutting to make objects appear and disappear. Perhaps its greatest invention is that Santa skips houses where the chimneys are too narrow for him to fit through, ensuring he only visits well-off families with large fireplaces. - Marilyn Ferdinand