The Santa Clause (Teaser Trailer)

In the summer of 1994, a teaser trailer for Disney's live-action film The Santa Clause was theatrically screened in front of selected family and other Buena Vista films of the time, such as The Lion King. The trailer shows that it was originally planned to be released by Hollywood Pictures before Walt Disney Pictures took over the film's rights. In the trailer, there is a scene set inside a snow-globe around a plastic house where a plastic Santa Claus accidentally falls off the roof and commits suicide on the snow. As the camera zooms out of the snow-globe, it is revealed that the globe is held by Scott Calvin (played by Tim Allen). He then accidentally drops the globe, causing it to break offscreen. The screen cuts to a green background card reading "Tim Allen". The next shot shows Scott saying "We need help in here to clean this thing up." The green card appears again reading "The movie the North Pole doesn't want you to see." and cuts to the film's title. The last shows Scott wearing a Santa hat and saluting. The green card appears once more reading "Coming to town this holiday season". The music featured in the trailer is the music score from Hocus Pocus (composed by John Debney) followed by The Pointer Sisters' cover of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. All of the trailer's footage was eventually reused for the teaser trailer for the sequel The Santa Clause 2, which replaced both the Hollywood Pictures logo and the green background card with the Walt Disney Pictures text and the blue background card with snow (with one reading "The Santa Clause 2" instead simply the franchise title) and removed the text reading "The movie the North Pole doesn't want you to see." (as the film had already happened). There is also version of that teaser trailer for the sequel where the title card would read "Santa Clause 2: The Escape Clause".

The film's teaser trailer is really hard to find on the internet nowadays, although part of it was recently found in camera quality a projection video (which was shot in August 1994) on YouTube.