Christmas Cracker (French: Caprice de Noël) is a 1963 animated short about Christmas, co-directed by Norman McLaren, Gerald Potterton, Grant Munro and Jeff Hale for the National Film Board of Canada.
Between each segment, the clown does a short transition while a chiptune rendition of "The Holly and the Ivy" plays.
The first of three segments presented by the clown displays two cutout animation figures dance together while a guitar rendition of "Jingle Bells".
[2] In this short film is a tin butterfly, alligator, bird, robot, clown, and cat.
This segment was later expanded into a half-hour special by Gerald Potterton called "George and the Christmas Star", which followed the same basic premise.