Originally produced as a 1971 television special broadcast on ABC in the United States. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for 1972 and to this day remains the only film adaptation of Dickens' story to be so honored.
A little boy prepares his Christmas tree as he thinks about his father working in Antarctica where there are no Christmas trees. He wishes he could take his father one, when he tries to catch a taxi to the South Pole. Santa Claus lands his sparkling sleigh-like vessel, called the Star Shooter, beside the car and agrees to let the child take it to Antarctica.