The special was sponsored by General Electric, and the elves were featured in the GE small appliance commercials. Most elves fit the short, plump stereotype, but for diversity, one elf is taller and thinner than the others and wears horn-rimmed glasses. A distinctive, colorful costume design was created, with red, green, blue, or pink outfits topped with cone-shaped hats. Santa's elves feature prominently in the Rankin-Bass 1964 stop-motion TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.The 1932 Disney traditional animation short film Santa's Workshop, features Santa Claus and his elves preparing for Christmas.They are generally portrayed in live-action films either by little actors, children, forced perspective to make normal-sized actors appear diminutive, or computer-generated imagery (CGI) otherwise by traditional animation, stop-motion animation, or computer animation according to the format of the film. ( January 2022)Ĭhristmas elves have had their role expanded in modern films and television. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. The elves are generally said to live for hundreds, or even thousands, of years, despite the fact that in some cases they appear eternally youthful as children. The Santa Clause series and The Christmas Chronicles), the elves' jobs also include operating police and air forces protecting the North Pole, helping Santa outside the Pole when he is captured by the real-world police, and as Santa's secret-service-like bodyguards ( Fred Claus). In this portrayal, elves slightly resemble nimble and delicate versions of the dwarfs of Norse myth. In recent years, other toys-usually high-tech toys like computers, video games, DVDs, and DVD players, and even mobile phones-have also been depicted as being ready for delivery, but not necessarily made, in the workshop as well. They make the toys in Santa's workshop located in the North Pole. In the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland, the modern legend of Santa Claus typically includes diminutive elves at Christmas green-clad elves with pointy ears and pointy hats as Santa's employees / assistants. Truman (CVN-75) watch a screening of the 2003 film Elf Following the work of Jenny Nyström, this hybrid figure became known as Jultomten. He became merged with Tomten, which was previously an elfish / dwarfish farm guardian. By 1891, the saint had become so well known that he could no longer be ignored. Nicholas in Sweden, the job of giving out gifts was done by the Yule goat. Nicholas (more commonly known today as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas), often attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus himself is described in line 45 as follows: "He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf". Additional recognition was given in Austin Thompson's 1876 work "The House of Santa Claus, a Christmas Fairy Show for Sunday Schools". During this time, Godey's was immensely influential to the birth of Christmas traditions, having shown the first widely circulated picture of a modern Christmas tree on the front cover of its 1850 Christmas issue. The image of the elves in the workshop was popularized by Godey's Lady's Book, with a front cover illustration for its 1873 Christmas issue showing Santa surrounded by toys and elves with the caption "Here we have an idea of the preparations that are made to supply the young folks with toys at Christmas time". The Christmas elf appeared in literature as early as 1850 when Louisa May Alcott completed, but never published a book titled Christmas Elves. In Medieval Europe, elves were seen as nefarious and were often linked to demons. In various regions of Europe there were similar supernatural beings that can be connected to elves, such as kobolds from Germany and house spirits named brownies in Scotland. The elf character is most likely to have combined this Norse legend with other Scandinavian and Celtic cultures and myths regarding elves, fairies and nature spirits. The origins of the elf are said to have been derived from Norse mythology, which refers to the álfar, also known as huldufólk 'hidden folk'.
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