History WesternAnimation / AChristmasCarol

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[DerangedAnimation The ghost of Christmas Past, as brought to you by Richard Williams.]]]]

''A Christmas Carol'' is a 1971 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name.]] It is a half-hour animated film directed by Creator/RichardWilliams (with Creator/ChuckJones as executive producer).

It's a faithful adaptation. Ebeneezer Scrooge, a notorious miser and curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns him of the coming of three spirits: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet To Come. The ghosts teach Scrooge how to keep Christmas.

Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.

Won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for short animated film.

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!!''A Christmas Carol'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AdaptedOut: An aversion. In Dickens' novel, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge various scenes of lonely, isolated people keeping the holiday: a group of miners, two lighthouse keepers, and sailors on a ship at sea. These scenes are virtually always AdaptedOut of adaptations, but they are included here, despite the fact that it's a 25-minute short.
* CompressedAdaptation: It follows the story from the book pretty well for a 25 minute show, but naturally a lot had to be cut.
* CreepyChild: Ignorance and Want, who in this version look positively ''demonic''.
* DerangedAnimation: The entire part focusing on the ghosts. The Past especially comes closest to the original HumanoidAbomination description in the original book.
* EpicTrackingShot: The animated equivalent thereof, as the film proper (after the opening credits) starts with a long swooping pan over the roofs of London before zooming down to the window of Scrooge & Marley.
* TheGrimReaper: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come seems like this in the book, but it's explicit here, as he wears a long hooded cloak and points with a bony finger.
* {{Narrator}}: Michael Redgrave provides narration.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The short hits most of the plot points of Dickens' book, but it does cut out the scene with his sister.
* RoleReprisal: Alistair Sim and Michael Hordern previously played the roles of Scrooge and Marley twenty years earlier in Film/Scrooge1951
* TimePassesMontage: An amazingly brief one in which the film shows Scrooge as a child at school bent over a book, then whips through several shots of a gradually aging Scrooge bent in the same sitting position, before finishing with him as a young man bent over his desk at Fezziwig's business.
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''A Christmas Carol'' is a 1971 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name.]] It is a half-hour animated film directed by Creator/RichardWilliams (with Creator/ChuckJones as executive producer). Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.

'''''A Christmas Carol''''' is a 1971 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name.]] It is a half-hour animated film directed by Creator/RichardWilliams (with Creator/ChuckJones as executive producer). Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.

'''''A Christmas Carol''''' is a 1971 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name]]. It is a half-hour animated film directed by Creator/RichardWilliams (with Creator/ChuckJones as executive producer). Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.

Won the AcademyAward for short animated film.

'''''A Christmas Carol''''' is a 1971 film adaptation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the novel of the same name]]. It is a half-hour animated film directed by RichardWilliams (with Creator/ChuckJones as executive producer). Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.