This and many other short films about Christmas have recently been cobbled together and repackaged as "Vintage Christmas Classics". Now the term 'vintage' used to mean old AND good...but in this case, it only means old and awful!
In this film, a super-creepy Santa arrives in a family's home and he's apparently deranged, as he laughs and laughs for no apparent reason. Not surprisingly, the kids awaken because of his racket. He then tells them a story called "A Monkey's Christmas"...complete with a hand puppet and lots of stock footage which seems to have almost nothing to do with his story.
Although the film is bad, at least they didn't take an old Army training film or a film about VD and try to turn it into a story. Instead, it's monkeys and chimps in irrelevant footage...all narrated by Santa. The film is terrible. The ape footage is perplexing and pointless...and is more apt to terrify kids than please them. Using Santa and some kids to tie all this together is perplexing.
Overall, this is a godawful mess...which means it fits in perfectly with the rest of the films in this collection. The only reason I could see showing this is if your kids have been terrible all year and you want to punish them.