This is the 1990 Christmas letter set to video.
This is the first of several Christmas letters set to a video format. I got this idea in 2006, while working on our 3rd VHS to digital conversion, to tack on Christmas letters related to those years at the end of the DVD. This was meant to be a novelty for the KHV-3 (Kurucz Home Video #3) DVD. But after the first two videos, the idea just grew from there.
There were no digital pictures from 1990, so these are mostly frame grabs from the movie clips and a couple of scans I was able to scrounge up. This was fine anyway, since originally the intent was for the watcher to see this letter at the end of the DVD, and the stills would just tie back nicely. That all came from something similar that I saw in the theaters.
The software used was Pinnacle Studio 5, which was very limited for doing text overlays. The clip on this page is .mp4 or HTML5, depending on what you are viewing it from (was formerly in Shockwave Flash).
Credits:
Colors/Dance - George Winston
Autumn (1980)
Silent Night - One of the amazing 4-year-old Kurucz pianists (1990)
Silent Night - Mannheim Steamroller
Christmas (1984)