Скачать или смотреть Merry Christmas - A pair of festive VHS oddities!

We thrifted a VHS tape recently with your usual generic cartoon cover, simply titled, "Merry Christmas." Usually the sign of public domain cartoons and shorts, the cover featured a jovial Santa in a room with a decorated tree, with three toys on the floor in the foreground. The back of the VHS list three programs... none of which were actually on the tape! Haha The first was a cartoon in pretty rough shape, so I have not included it. The last two programs are live action, with the first surprisingly being a documentary from Turkey. These were pretty fun and unique so I wanted to preserve and share. I improved the picture quality a bit. They were colored red and green, which I thought was wonderful, so I enhanced that as well, as the whole tape was over exposed and washed out. As you will see from the title screens, Burbank Video claims copyright. The tape itself was from 1993, but even despite their on screen date in the 80's, clearly the programs are from earlier. ;)

Merry Christmas!

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