"Star of Bethlehem" (no article), A Primrose Production, was released in England by Archway in February, 1957. It ran 18 minutes. Publicity for the movie proclaimed that it marked "the first time Lotte Reiniger has worked in colour (sic)." Reiniger is credited with "Design". She and her husband, Carl Koch, are credited as "Animators". The director was Vivian Milroy; the film editor, Reg Spragg; music was composed by Peter Gellhorn. And there was a spoken commentary by Anthony Jacobs. Producers Louis Hagen and Richard Kaplan sold the short to Cathedral Films in the USA. I've not seen the U.S. version, but I doubt that it included "Reiniger's dramatically grotesque devils that vividly evoke medieval German illustrations."
Review of The Star of Bethlehem
