1955 Christmas festivities in Roanoke, Va.

Trains, planes, and buses show the rise in traveling around the holidays; crowds of people bustle around town during the Christmas shopping season; people sell Christmas trees; a mailman delivers letters; close-up of Christmas tree lights and a manger scene; a mother and son bake together in a kitchen; a family hangs stockings on the mantle and decorates the Christmas tree. This year, everyone seems to feel more deeply about Christmas than usual. Many have helped put "Christ Back in Christmas." Travel is heavy - shopping moreso - as more and more people think of returning to their families at this time of year. (Start film.) The Christmas songs, the hearty smiles, are everywhere and seem to say:"This is indeed a Merry Christmas." (Show film.) (((Music UP: No Narration: "JOY TO The WORLD."