"Once upon a time, the art of the movies was to suspend belief. Today, the art is to create belief. One of the greatest challenges in the modern history of cinema was to make you believe that a man could fly. They succeeded .... in a film called Superman ®."

So spoke Ernie Anderson, legendary voice of America's ABC Television Network, in introducing the first great making-of documentary from the father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind and Pierre Spengler:

The Making of Superman: The Movie ®.

Eight years later, those same three men would reassemble some of their Superman ® teammates, and add a few new friends, to embark upon a brand-new mission: to make the world believe in the power of flight once again.

Only, this time, they would call it Santa Claus: The Movie™.