Santa’s Punch & Judy Show

From 1948, some great acting right there, especially from the last kid who gets a present.

Santa Coke Ad

I like the way this is animated and how it retains the spirit of Haddom Sundblom’s original posters from all those years ago.

Happy Christmas

Good old Santa, what a great role model for children!

Lung cancer, a great gift for Christmas.

Santa’s A Dirty Old Man

I never though St Nick was into upskirting. Pervert!

Isn’t It Time To Give Yourself A Chistmas Gift?

With this I will be able to get lots of other Christmas gifts without spending a dime. Bwahaha.

Norman Rockwell’s Santa Claus

Here’s a final Rockwell Santa Claus that I forgot to post in the last update.

This is from 1920.

Happy Christmas

As Christmas 2009 comes to an end I thought that I would post some Christmas covers of the Saturday Evening Post, featuring the iconic depictions of Santa Claus by Norman Rockwell. I believe that most of the come from the 1920s.

 

There is a myth that Coca Cola and Haddom Sundblom created the moderb image of Father Christmas, but as can be seen here, Rockwell was portraying him in the way we now know a decade before Coke did.

Coca Cola Santa Claus

Perhaps the most iconic advertising campaign of all would be Coca Cola’s use of Santa Claus to advertise their product. In December every year for three decades Artist Haddom Sundblom would paint Santa Claus taking time out from his busy Christmas Eve schedule to down an ice cold Coke.

Santa Claus Delivers Cadbury Chocolate

With Christmas fast approaching and Kraft making a hostile bid to take over the iconic British chocolate brand Cadbury, I thought it would be interesting to look at how Cadbury used another icon, Santa Claus, to advertise their chocolate brand in the 1920s.

I believe this is from a decade or so before Coca Cola and Haddom Sundblom used Santa to advertise the ‘pause that refreshes’. Note how Santa’s sack has a Union Jack emblazed on it, to emphasise the British-ness of the product.