Santa Claus is an 1898 British silent trick film directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve.

The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is believed to be the cinema's earliest known example of parallel action and, when coupled with double-exposure techniques that Smith had already demonstrated in the same year's The Mesmerist (1898) and Photographing a Ghost (1898), the result is one of the most visually and conceptually sophisticated British films made up to then.

Santa Claus is seen on the roof putting a Christmas tree down the chimney, then following it himself.

He enters the room from the fireplace and proceeds to fill the stockings hanging from the children's footboard.

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