A Seriously Groovy Movie Christmas: Festive Cinema of the 1960s and 70s

The 1960s and 70s formed the wilderness years of the Christmas movie. Sandwiched between the genre's post-war golden age and its commercial revival in the 1980s, these decades have come to be regarded as the Bermuda Triangle of festive cinema - where many features have become lost in the mists of Christmas past and have subsequently been forgotten by later generations.

Far from a creative backwater, however, this period would bear witness to some of the most fascinating, unconventional and e...