The video is from 1948, the music is by kugelplex, and the vocals are by Jewlia Eisenberg from the wondrous Charming Hostess.

If we’re gonna have the silliness of the season, we might as well have people singing about Santa in Yiddish :-).

I dug up this short film by Virgil Widrich after seeing Lessig use a bit of it in his TED talk, and it’s one of those amazing bits of hyper-obsessive homage that you just have to admire, even though you’re probably grateful that you’d never have the time for this sort of thing. Parts are a little long, and some of the tricks a bit obvious, but most of it is genuinely wonderful.

Great stuff, especially for all those major film buffs out there!