"The Night Before Christmas (1968)" Review
Today, December 23, marks the 200th anniversary of the first time that the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (better known as " The Night Before Christmas", allegedly written by Clement Clark Moore, was published in the Troy Sentinel. To celebrate the milestone, I thought I would review an animated Christmas special that provides a fictional account of how Moore came to write his famous poem-the 1968 special "The Night Before Christmas". We open in the month of December 1822, a few days before Christmas and one year before "A Visit From St. Nicholas" was first published. We then cut to the Moore's house, where the three Moore Children (Clement, Emily and Charity), housekeeper Gretchen and the family dog Clyde are busy baking Christmas treats as the special's opening song "Savory Serenade" plays in the background. The older Clement Moore is preparing to go out of town for a few days and promises to bring each of his kids and