Is it wrong to love the commercials of Hallmark movies more than the actual TV movie? Yes, I am a SUCKER and a SAP. I have a plate of Ginger Krinkles, a lit up Christmas tree (I decided that it was best to stash the silver tree and pretty precious ornaments away this year due to Little Miss Grabby Pants. We got a live tree, a Fraser Fir that grows in NC and it's a beauty, with dense soft branches that turn upwards.) But even the three-hankie commercials are paling in comparison with my newest mini-obsession. I took a Kino film compilation out of the library A Christmas Past and we were half watching these silent shorts as we decorated the tree and then - "Santa Claus" from 1925, "presented by" Mr.and Mrs. F.E. Kleinschmidt. Two kids trap Santa and ask him all sorts of questions and we see his life in the North Pole - but the film maker was really a merchant sea captain who shot lots of footage in Alaska at the turn of the century so it was all very oddly anthropological - a fleet of bobbing walruses were "goblins of the deep" protecting Santa's toy shop, there was a visit to an Inuit family inside their igloo, all bundled in furs...it was like Nanook of the North spliced together with a Victorian Christmas card. I was completely bowled over, so what did I do? I Googled him of course and to my shock there was so very little on the internet about this guy - NY Times snippets from 1913, a mention of the movie here and there- but like not even a Wikipedia stub, which means you are really obscure, I guess. I would like to go to Nome, Alaska where his twin daughters were born in 1907 and find out what happened to them and where the scraps of his films are kept and maybe his papers and just poke around in his life for a month or two and sail up the Northwest Passage where he captained his ship up and down and maybe write more than a stub. I think the best possible dream life would be one where you could just drop everything and go research for a project...and then the next one...and the next one. I would like to show you this film and say, "See?" Dear baby jebus, let there be a job for me one day that lets me do things like that.