"Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, short films have remained central to Christmas viewing habits. In the 1960s, animated shorts such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) became fixtures on American TV during the holiday season. Similarly, in Britain, watching The Snowman (1982) has become as much of a Christmas tradition as watching The Queen's Speech.
Ranging in length from just over a minute to just under half an hour, here are 10 of cinema's finest stocking fillers – short films that either are, or deserve to be, Christmas classics."
