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Days Before Christmas

Wolf Koenig, Stanley Jackson, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Roman Kroitor · Canada · Documentary · 29 min · 6.4K views

A candid portrait of Montreal in the days before Christmas: crowded stores, department-store Santas, armoured-car couriers, kindergarten angels and lively nightclubs.

A pioneering slice of direct cinema capturing 1950s Montreal's holiday bustle.

This short documentary depicts Christmas time in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holida

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