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** This is one of the few versions to show Marley's jaw falling down onto his chest when he unties the bandage around his head.
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** Scrooge being confronted with is shrouded corpse is included in this adaptation.
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** This is one of the few versions that features Scrooge extinguishing The Ghost of Christmas Past with a giant candle snuffer.
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** This is the only adaptation to depict Belle wearing mourning attire during the scene where she and Scrooge breakup.
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** 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 almost always left out of adaptations, but they are included here.
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** 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. Before he leaves, he also introduces Scrooge to the spirits of Ignorance and Want, and tells Scrooge to beware of them. These scenes are almost always left out of adaptations, but they are included here.
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Creator/MichaelRedgrave narrates the story, while Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern provide the voices of Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.
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Creator/MichaelRedgrave narrates the story, while Alastair Sim Creator/AlastairSim and Michael Hordern provide the voices of Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.
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-->'''Scrooge:''' Yes, I know, you'll tell me that many can't go there, and many would rather die; well, they'd better do that, and decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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-->'''Scrooge:''' Yes, I know, you'll tell me that many can't go there, and many would rather die; well, they'd better do ''do'' that, and decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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-->'''Scrooge:''' Yes, I know, you'll tell me that many can't go there, and many would rather die; well, they'd better do that, then and decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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* ThisIsThePartWhere: During the "Are there no prisons?" exchange with the two men soliciting him for donations to the poor, Scrooge preemptively quotes their own response from the novel rather than even give them a chance to speak:
-->'''Scrooge:''' Yes, I know, you'll tell me that many can't go there, and many would rather die; well, they'd better do that, then decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
-->'''Scrooge:''' Yes, I know, you'll tell me that many can't go there, and many would rather die; well, they'd better do that, then decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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* CompressedAdaptation: It follows the story from the book pretty well for a 25 minute show, but naturally a lot had to be cut since it's only 25 minutes long.
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[[caption-width-right:320:[[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, and Creator/GrimNatwick as an uncredited animator).
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}}''. Creator/MichaelRedgrave is the narrator.
Originally broadcast by Creator/{{ABC}} television, it subsequently had a brief theatrical run, allowing it to win the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film.
[[caption-width-right:320:[[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, and Creator/GrimNatwick as an uncredited animator).
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}}''. Creator/MichaelRedgrave is the narrator.
Originally broadcast by Creator/{{ABC}} television, it subsequently had a brief theatrical run, allowing it to win the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film.
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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, and Creator/GrimNatwick as an uncredited animator).
London, 1843: On Christmas Eve, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a notorious miser and curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns Scrooge that he must change his ways to avoid a terrible fate in the hereafter, and tells him of the coming of three spirits: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. These spirits will teach Scrooge how to keep Christmas.
Creator/MichaelRedgrave narrates the story, while Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern provide the voices of Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.
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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.
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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 to Come. The ghosts teach Scrooge how to keep Christmas.
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** This version also shows the Ghost of Christmas Present spreading Christmas cheer with flicks of his torch, and proportionally aging over the course of a single day, two plot points from Dickens that other adaptations rarely use.
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Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.
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Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern star as Scrooge and Marley, reprising their roles from the 1951 live-action feature ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''.
''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}''. Creator/MichaelRedgrave is the narrator.
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** This cartoon also includes the book's subtitle "Being a Ghost Story of Christmas", which virtually no other adaptation does.
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** The Ghost of Christmas Past also gets a notable mention for being very accurate to the original depiction of the book's text, which is to say, a being [[AlienGeometries in constant, flickering flux of going from one body with the usual set of proportions to multiple eyes, heads, legs, and bodies]] all while in a pattern of rapidly aging/de-aging its appearance. [[JustifiedTrope the accurate description of the original character done in animation which in itself, justifies it]].
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* NightmareFuel: A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes. Jacob Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. Each of the three Ghosts has their own version of NightmareFuel, and as mentioned above Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things. (Ignorance in particular is quite scary-looking, gnashing its teeth at Scrooge as the Ghost of the Present warns him to "Beware this boy!")
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A reprisal is a retaliatory attack; this is now Role Reprise. It's also Trivia.
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* RoleReprisal: Alistair Sim and Michael Hordern previously played the roles of Scrooge and Marley twenty years earlier in Film/Scrooge1951.
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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).
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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).producer, and Creator/GrimNatwick as an uncredited animator).
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The short hits most of the plot points of Dickens' book, but it does cut out the scene with his sister.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The short Being only 25 minutes long, hits most of the plot points of Dickens' book, but it does cut out the scene with his Scrooge's sister.
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moving from the western aniamtion page since the '97 cartoon has a page and others may follow. also the ghost of christmas yet to come looked like that in the book, so deleting this. "* The Grim Reaper: The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come wears a long hooded cloak and points with a bony finger."
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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: The young debtors celebrating Scrooge's death are left out, as is Scrooge's sister Fan.
* CompressedAdaptation: It follows the story from the book pretty well for a 25 minute show, but naturally a lot had to be cut since it's only 25 minutes long.
* CreepyChild: Ignorance and Want, who in this version look positively ''demonic''.
* DerangedAnimation: Anything involving the ghosts, especially Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
* 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.
* {{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.
* TruerToTheText:
** 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 almost always left out of adaptations, but they are included here.
** Scrooge enjoying the characters in books is kept.
** The Ghost of Christmas Past comes closest to the description in the original book, with looking simultaneously old and young, its shape constantly flickering like a candle, and giving it the appearance of multiple eyes and limbs.
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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: The young debtors celebrating Scrooge's death are left out, as is Scrooge's sister Fan.
* CompressedAdaptation: It follows the story from the book pretty well for a 25 minute show, but naturally a lot had to be cut since it's only 25 minutes long.
* CreepyChild: Ignorance and Want, who in this version look positively ''demonic''.
* DerangedAnimation: Anything involving the ghosts, especially Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
* 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.
* {{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.
* TruerToTheText:
** 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 almost always left out of adaptations, but they are included here.
** Scrooge enjoying the characters in books is kept.
** The Ghost of Christmas Past comes closest to the description in the original book, with looking simultaneously old and young, its shape constantly flickering like a candle, and giving it the appearance of multiple eyes and limbs.
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