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The Days Before Christmas

Terence Macartney-Filgate, Stanley Jackson & Wolf Koenig
1958 | 29 min
This short documentary depicts Christmas time in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.