This is, after all, a ghost story. So who better to narrate than the legendary Vincent Price? A wonderfully sinister Ebeneezer Scrooge and a dutiful Bob Kratchet.
This was the first filmed version of Dickens' story produced for television. Co-prduced by Mike Stokey, who was the host (and producer) of "PANTOMIME QUIZ"- on which Vincent Price appeared regularly as a celebrity player.
I think I’ve watched and listened to every Scrooge and A Christmas Carol adaptation there is and the moral of the story is always the same, we pass this way once and will answer for what we did and didn’t do with the time God has given to us, I pray God we all stay on the straight and narrow. Merry Christmas to everyone!🙏🎄.
Ghost of Christmas Present, only time can tell Christmas Future...or, our own decisions. The Three Ghosts 2020-2 will ring out in human history, just as Dickens's message. Merry Christmas, friend!
Awww! I am so very touched by this very simple but heartfelt production. 😢 God has blessed us that this is even available to view. Thanks to the uploader! Wishing everyone very festive celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ and a happier New Year 2021!🙏🙂❤
Taylor Holmes was the voice of Princess Aurora’s father King Stefan. Holmes is a 70 plus year old man and it astonishes me that that voice matches the design of the character.
Just the fact that Vincent Price is on this gives it a thumbs up :) Love him, love the story. I do think that the actor playing Marley would have made a better Scrooge.
First of all, a big Vincent Price fan. Secondly, This the first time seeing this version of A Christmas Carol. Last, I am impressed with the nature and reality of a story that has endured these many years. It caught me off guard and had no idea of it being produced, gladly, I found it. Thank you for sharing.
I love Vincent Price he has the most wonderful voice. Its very odd to hear Scrooge with an American accent. Also we have to remember Charles Dickens documented and helped change how the poor of England were treated in these days.
Vincent Price, one of my favourite actors, narrating one of my favourite stories, until now I had been unaware of this, so thank you for the download. Price is by far the best thing about this, Scrooge is terribly hammy and the American accents are wrong for Victorian London. But I enjoyed it none the less 🎅👻🌲
@@missjeanferalcatsrmylife5335 I hope your wishes for a happier 2021 will come true, because 2020 has been nothing else but a calamity..Merry Christas darling and God bless us, everyone!
It's too bad Rankin and Bass never did A Christmas Carol with Vincent Price narrating it. He was from that same era as Durante, Astaire and Kaye; he would have been great.
May god bless you and all. May the government all look et this and do better with mankind. Love peace joy and kindness to all. God bless in jesus christ believe and it shall be done. Father son and holy spirit amen. God bless you and all
Vincent price ,encabeza el grupo predilecto de actores de clasicos de horror, del género gótico,los cuentos de edgar allan poe, mis favoritos..aunque tiene otros filmes de comedias como una con toni curtis ,El ladron de Bagdad y otras..lastima que la TV en latinoamerica no las pasa..muy buen actor... En thriller le dá la introducción y en El muchacho de las manos de tijeras..cierra su capitulo actoral..
I didn't recognize Vincent Price with a gottie, he looks rather sinister, and yet what a voice and what style, a real British gentleman. Even though I'm Mexican, I'm very proud to bear the same name. He's one of my favorite actors, and my favorite Simon Templar character.
Bless your heart! Watching this incredibly Old Time Christmas TV is wonderful entertainment. Vincent Price is one of the most legendary actors ever. Wear the name of Vincent with pride. Have a festive and Blessed Christmas! And, a happier New Year 2021!
@@missjeanferalcatsrmylife5335 Thank you, Miss Jean, I truely appreciate your very positive comment. I'm glad you like Vincent Price and this old Christmas Carol movie. As a Charles Dickens fan, this version of his most famous work is desently good, but Vincent Price makes it extraordinarily good! I'm also happy that you like cats too! I have four cats as well, but they live outdoors cause their mom was a feral cat, and so they are too, they don't like to stay inside. If I ever become a publish author, I won't change my first name cause I'm proud of it as you know, but about my last name, hmm...I don't know. You too have a wonderful blessed Christmas, Jean, you and the ones you love. Happy New year of 2021, and God bless you always.
HUH??.........Vincent Price hosting this all-time Christmas classic?? ....."Ba Humbug!".....I was waiting for something like Frankenstein in a Santa outfit! .....and surprised Tiny Tim was not played by "Egor" 😆........And.... An early- happy Merry Christmas to All!
Tiny Tim here? That’s the kid who played the District Attorney’s son in the original Miracle on 34th Street, right? The kid who testified and wanted a football for Christmas. (Or was it a helmet?)
Always confusing, every version I’ve seen… Cratchit leaves work, with a conversation with Scrooge implying that it’s currently Christmas Eve (not 3 days prior to it). The ghost of Marley comes and says that for three successive nights, nights, nights, Scrooge will be visited by a different ghost. He falls asleep in his own clothes, or sometimes he’s shown in his pajamas, but either way, the time of ghost appearances occurs over successive hours, not days (unless he’s in some sort of coma and is sleeping for a day plus an hour for three days/nights), and then he wakes to Christmas Day, even though the storyline has said that it will take 3 nights to accomplish, but this otherwise appears to happen on Christmas Eve over successive hours, waking to Christmas Day. It just doesn’t add up. Even when the ghost of Christmas future shows people speaking poorly of Scrooge, and how they don’t want to attend his funeral, and Scrooge asks to whom they refer, the ghost then points to his headstone, and in that future timeline he is buried before his funeral occurs. The inconsistencies always bothered me and distracted me from the story. Maybe he’s just pointing out the nonsensical order and nature of dreams in general.
A christmas carol is one of the finest books ever written and here you are pointing out inconsistencies. Seems more than a little silly to me, not to mention a tad blasphemous as well.
12.07.2021 @Miss Kim I'm not positive about other versions, but the 1984 version w/George C. Scott as Scrooge; Marley tells Scrooge ... expect the 1st (spirit) tonight, when the bell tolls 1:00, expect the 2nd at the stroke of 2:00 & the 3rd, more mercurial ... shall appear in his own good time. So he didn't mention "nights or specifically 3 nights in succession". Hope that helps.😄
Charles Dickens didn't write "A Christmas Carol" (not The Christmas Carol), and originally it was not a "ghost story." It was like the movie, "Ghost," where all the paranormal elements were intended to be authentic. Dickens dumbed it down for the public. It was originally written by an American couple, Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier. Mathew was the younger brother of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier; Abby was first cousin to Charles Poyen, who introduced Mesmerism (hypnosis) to America. You can read more in this blog entry: www.ial.goldthread.com/blog11_19_19.html
The ending is similar to the 1938 MGM movie version (featuring Reginald Owen as "Scrooge"), where everyone gathers at Bob Cratchit's house for Chistmas dinner- and to expedite matters concerning Scrooge's future plans for his nephew, Bob's family and Tiny Tim. In Dickens' original story, Scrooge doesn't share the Cratchit's dinner; after sending him his sumptuous feast anonymously, he goes to Fred's house. And then confronts Bob the next morning, telling him he's raising his salary and helping Tim, then inviting him to discuss everything over "a bowl of smoking bishop" {hot wine with oranges and other fruits floating in it}.
God rest ye merry gentlemen when chimps have ate their legs, a Martian came to Denver and gave my mom some pegs, she used them for her washing and put them on her nose, good tidings and moon pies on our heads moon pies on heads, good tidings when we are in our beds. 🌚🌙🏃🏃🌕🏃🏃😴😴😴🚻🚺🚶🚉🎑🍫🍫🎅🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄🐵🐒🐵👽👽👽👽👽⭐⭐👑🏪
What's with the mix of American and English accents? They honestly couldn't cast ACTORS across the board who could do English accents? I mean, the acting in general isn't horrible, but I've seen community theater productions that felt more professional!
TV was very new back then - Hollywood had not yet released their film libraries for broadcast (that wouldn't happen until 1957), so the networks had to create 16 hours worth of original programming per day. There were relatively few TV sets in the US in 1949, which meant sponsors didn't pay much for ad spots. Little cash plus zero time equals big compromises in quality. At the time, the medium was so new nobody cared. It was the beginning of a whole new era and it was fascinating.
@@jeremyzak654 - Amen! It started when "Star Wars" came out in 1977. Before that, people were happy with drive in movies, TV movies of the week, etc. Everyone knew those big budget extravaganzas were reserved for special events, i.e., "Ben Hur." A few weeks after "Star Wars" premiered, suddenly everyone turned their backs on little films. Everything had to be a $50 million all-star event with symphonic score and wall-to-wall special effects, or else it was labeled "crap." I really hated that mentality when it started and I hate it now even more.
This "short" began with 2 minutes of credits and singing before it got to it's story. That's just fiddling around when you only have 25 minutes. Bad start for me.
How have I never seen this b4 ...gasp...thought I saw every single rendition
This is, after all, a ghost story. So who better to narrate than the legendary Vincent Price? A wonderfully sinister Ebeneezer Scrooge and a dutiful Bob Kratchet.
Vincent Price looks great in this movie. Loved the guy.
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One of my favorite classic movies that I have enjoyed for years. Taylor Holmes was excellent.
Vincent Price was the perfect choice for this narration. 🖤
Still enjoying these Christmas Carols and Mr. Vincent Price can't go wrong. Thank you PizzaFlix & GOD bless
" I'm the ghost of Christmas past Ebeneezer, have you been good to tiny Tim , or Jim Cratchett ? "
A good production for 1949 television Vincent Price does a great reading
This was the first filmed version of Dickens' story produced for television. Co-prduced by Mike Stokey, who was the host (and producer) of "PANTOMIME QUIZ"- on which Vincent Price appeared regularly as a celebrity player.
The narrative of Vincent price is enough for make me feel the Christmas spirit, doesn't need the movie 😊🤗😊🤗 merry Christmas gentlemen
Loved Vincent Price he was an intelligent man
He could also cook really well and published a cook book; his party piece was breaking an egg with one hand!
"God Bless us Everyone"!!🙏🙌
I think I’ve watched and listened to every Scrooge and A Christmas Carol adaptation there is and the moral of the story is always the same, we pass this way once and will answer for what we did and didn’t do with the time God has given to us, I pray God we all stay on the straight and narrow. Merry Christmas to everyone!🙏🎄.
Merry Christmas Diane, and God bless everyone.
@@sergiodario58able GOD bless us everyone!!😷🎄
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Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
Amen! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Remember, God loves us with an INFINITE love! 🎄🍀🙏
Ghost of Christmas Present, only time can tell Christmas Future...or, our own decisions. The Three Ghosts 2020-2 will ring out in human history, just as Dickens's message. Merry Christmas, friend!
This very short version of the Christmas Carol is pretty good. I liked all the characters/actors.
A gem from the golden age of television
this is an old tv production. really cool
Ghost of Christmas Present, perhaps Dickens's message was never more apt, and Price always a priceless present.
Never seen this one - good acting and nostalgic - Merry christmas!
12.07.2021
That excellent narrator is
from my home town!!😉👊
Vincent Price the perfect actor for a Christmas 🌲⛄ Carol 😍 really enjoyed watching I have never seen this before ☺️
Awww! I am so very touched by this very simple but heartfelt production. 😢 God has blessed us that this is even available to view. Thanks to the uploader! Wishing everyone very festive celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ and a happier New Year 2021!🙏🙂❤
I had never heard of this short version. For a short film is was really good.
This was Jill St. John's first TV acting appearance (at the age of nine), under her real name, Jill Oppenheim.
Vincent Price....100% class!
Vincent Price has always been one of my favorite actors!
Merry Christ-mas to all who come here to view this Christmas Favorite! The Time draws close, Repent, Receive, Rejoice.........Before it is TOO LATE!
Vincent Price rules!
Fabulous!
Anyone else watching this on Christmas Day 2019? Just me? Okay. Merry Christmas Everyone!
Merry CHRIST-mas yourself !!!
Merry Christmass
And now? 2020
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It's yet to come, but Merry Christmas to you and everybody...And God bless us, everyone!
Yep i am, but it's Christmas eve 2020!! Merry Christmas and may God bless.🙏
Vincent Price ur voice is thunder... We missed U...
Yes I loved the guy.
He was the voice of Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective (1986), that is the only film I know he was in.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has human eyes in this version.
Taylor Holmes was the voice of Princess Aurora’s father King Stefan. Holmes is a 70 plus year old man and it astonishes me that that voice matches the design of the character.
Thanks, great!
Rushed...but it was an old early tv program...i did like this..Merry Christmass..🌹🌹🌹💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🌹🌹🌹
Just the fact that Vincent Price is on this gives it a thumbs up :) Love him, love the story. I do think that the actor playing Marley would have made a better Scrooge.
It's actually weird seeing Vincent Price as a young man. That dude was old when my Dad was in Elementary School back in the 60's.
Very nice. Thank you for sharing. It's the first time I've seen this version. Loved it.
💗 God bless us, everyone
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
First of all, a big Vincent Price fan. Secondly, This the first time seeing this version of A Christmas Carol. Last, I am impressed with the nature and reality of a story that has endured these many years. It caught me off guard and had no idea of it being produced, gladly, I found it. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕
Have you seen Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Vincent Price is marvellous as Rattigan!
Keeping this video for bedtime . Bliss .
How delightful;! My favorite Christmas story narrated by one of my favorite actors!
I love Vincent Price he has the most wonderful voice. Its very odd to hear Scrooge with an American accent. Also we have to remember Charles Dickens documented and helped change how the poor of England were treated in these days.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS !!
This is so beyond awesome! Thanks for the upload.
I love Vincent Price
Vincent Price, one of my favourite actors, narrating one of my favourite stories, until now I had been unaware of this, so thank you for the download. Price is by far the best thing about this, Scrooge is terribly hammy and the American accents are wrong for Victorian London. But I enjoyed it none the less 🎅👻🌲
Thank You once again for posting this. It is as natural as any Christmas story ever given to us, the general public. THNX.
GOD Bless us everyone🙏
the magnificent Vincent Price
A rare gem with Ebenezer Scrooge played by King Stefan.
Short and sweet
This version was produced by Jerry Fairbanks Productions, the renowned corporate film production company.
AWESOME
6:40 i didn't know Jacob Marley was related to the Kool-Aid Man.
OH YEAH!!!
Anyone watching in 2020. Merry Christmas from India...
Hi ! Merry Christmas from Melbourne FL. GOD BLESS US EVERYONE!
Hi! Merry Christmas from England. GOD BLESS US EVERYONE!
Few weeks before Christmas! Looking forward to watching this! From Arizona USA, a Merry Christmas too all watching! And, a happier New Year 2021! 🙂❤🙏
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I hope your wishes for a happier 2021 will come true, because 2020 has been nothing else but a calamity..Merry Christas darling and God bless us, everyone!
Taylor Holmes was later the voice of King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty (1959) before his death.
And Vincent Price voiced Ratigan
Ty for this video and happy holidays to u N yours.🍗🎄🎁🎇🍸🍷👍✌. Many blessings.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Happy Holidays! May the Sauce be with you.
thanks for uploading!
It's too bad Rankin and Bass never did A Christmas Carol with Vincent Price narrating it. He was from that same era as Durante, Astaire and Kaye; he would have been great.
Vincent Price kinda foreshadowed RUclips over 5 decades later with him narrating to the audience
wonderful delightful !!
May god bless you and all. May the government all look et this and do better with mankind. Love peace joy and kindness to all. God bless in jesus christ believe and it shall be done. Father son and holy spirit amen. God bless you and all
Love is the most important thing. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
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Vincent price ,encabeza el grupo predilecto de actores de clasicos de horror, del género gótico,los cuentos de edgar allan poe, mis favoritos..aunque tiene otros filmes de comedias como una con toni curtis ,El ladron de Bagdad y otras..lastima que la TV en latinoamerica no las pasa..muy buen actor... En thriller le dá la introducción y en El muchacho de las manos de tijeras..cierra su capitulo actoral..
A good, loud BAH HUMBUG feels kind of good!
Thank Y😊u for Posting Beautiful Video,Y😊u Made My Christmas 😉
It was like watching a cross between Ebenezer Scrooge and Abraham Lincoln
2021, health to all
I didn't recognize Vincent Price with a gottie, he looks rather sinister, and yet what a voice and what style, a real British gentleman. Even though I'm Mexican, I'm very proud to bear the same name. He's one of my favorite actors, and my favorite Simon Templar character.
Bless your heart! Watching this incredibly Old Time Christmas TV is wonderful entertainment. Vincent Price is one of the most legendary actors ever. Wear the name of Vincent with pride. Have a festive and Blessed Christmas! And, a happier New Year 2021!
@@missjeanferalcatsrmylife5335 Thank you, Miss Jean, I truely appreciate your very positive comment. I'm glad you like Vincent Price and this old Christmas Carol movie. As a Charles Dickens fan, this version of his most famous work is desently good, but Vincent Price makes it extraordinarily good! I'm also happy that you like cats too! I have four cats as well, but they live outdoors cause their mom was a feral cat, and so they are too, they don't like to stay inside.
If I ever become a publish author, I won't change my first name cause I'm proud of it as you know, but about my last name, hmm...I don't know. You too have a wonderful blessed Christmas, Jean, you and the ones you love. Happy New year of 2021, and God bless you always.
Mr. Price was from Missouri. Yes, he was a gentleman though.
Paul Maxy played the fat man , Who also played Porky's father on the wonderful show Jeff's Collie (Lassie).🐺
Another Vincent Price best. Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" video. An absolute tribute too both of these great performers.
HUH??.........Vincent Price hosting this all-time Christmas classic?? ....."Ba Humbug!".....I was waiting for something like Frankenstein in a Santa outfit! .....and surprised Tiny Tim was not played by "Egor" 😆........And.... An early- happy Merry Christmas to All!
Personally speaking I always wished I could have heard Vincent Price play Jacob Marley.
The Best to ALL * AND A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS *
GOD BLESS US ALL !
Anybody know if Taylor Holmes was the man who was Father Knickerbocker beer for the old Steve Allen TV show?
He was the voice of King Stefan in his final film, Sleeping Beauty (1959).
I always laugh at the family's reaction to Tiny Tim's "God bless us, everyone". It's like "Yeah, yeah. Whatever!"
Wete born on same day .I can dig it as I too have my scary ways when necessary
This was awesome!!
This shows what GREED does!!!
The “Plan 9” of “A Christmas Carol” adaptations
The American accents tend to take away from this story.
Tiny Tim here?
That’s the kid who played the District Attorney’s son in the original Miracle on 34th Street, right?
The kid who testified and wanted a football for Christmas. (Or was it a helmet?)
Always confusing, every version I’ve seen… Cratchit leaves work, with a conversation with Scrooge implying that it’s currently Christmas Eve (not 3 days prior to it). The ghost of Marley comes and says that for three successive nights, nights, nights, Scrooge will be visited by a different ghost. He falls asleep in his own clothes, or sometimes he’s shown in his pajamas, but either way, the time of ghost appearances occurs over successive hours, not days (unless he’s in some sort of coma and is sleeping for a day plus an hour for three days/nights), and then he wakes to Christmas Day, even though the storyline has said that it will take 3 nights to accomplish, but this otherwise appears to happen on Christmas Eve over successive hours, waking to Christmas Day. It just doesn’t add up. Even when the ghost of Christmas future shows people speaking poorly of Scrooge, and how they don’t want to attend his funeral, and Scrooge asks to whom they refer, the ghost then points to his headstone, and in that future timeline he is buried before his funeral occurs. The inconsistencies always bothered me and distracted me from the story. Maybe he’s just pointing out the nonsensical order and nature of dreams in general.
A christmas carol is one of the finest books ever written and here you are pointing out inconsistencies. Seems more than a little silly to me, not to mention a tad blasphemous as well.
12.07.2021
@Miss Kim
I'm not positive about other versions, but the 1984 version w/George C. Scott as Scrooge; Marley tells Scrooge ... expect the 1st (spirit) tonight, when the bell tolls 1:00, expect the 2nd at the stroke of 2:00 & the 3rd, more mercurial ... shall appear in his own good time. So he didn't mention "nights or specifically 3 nights in succession". Hope that helps.😄
When Scrooge awakes and it's Christmas day, and it hasn't been three nights, he says, "The spirits can do that, you know."
Charles Dickens didn't write "A Christmas Carol" (not The Christmas Carol), and originally it was not a "ghost story." It was like the movie, "Ghost," where all the paranormal elements were intended to be authentic. Dickens dumbed it down for the public. It was originally written by an American couple, Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier. Mathew was the younger brother of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier; Abby was first cousin to Charles Poyen, who introduced Mesmerism (hypnosis) to America. You can read more in this blog entry:
www.ial.goldthread.com/blog11_19_19.html
The ghost of Christmas past is hot.
Laurence of Arabia ish
I believe Dickens wrote the story in about 1843
Dr. Goldfoot indeed )
He was heartly or hardly sorry?
Mr Scrooge’s nephew was heartily sorry for it (Tiny Tim’s death) and heartily sorry for Bob Cratchit’s good wife.
Dig that giant lock hanging on Bob Marley's arm 🔒🗝️⛓️
The script that was used really butchered .The best thing about this was the boys choirs to and Mr.Price. Happy Yule tide all you all.,😷🎄
The ending is similar to the 1938 MGM movie version (featuring Reginald Owen as "Scrooge"), where everyone gathers at Bob Cratchit's house for Chistmas dinner- and to expedite matters concerning Scrooge's future plans for his nephew, Bob's family and Tiny Tim. In Dickens' original story, Scrooge doesn't share the Cratchit's dinner; after sending him his sumptuous feast anonymously, he goes to Fred's house. And then confronts Bob the next morning, telling him he's raising his salary and helping Tim, then inviting him to discuss everything over "a bowl of smoking bishop" {hot wine with oranges and other fruits floating in it}.
The two men who visit Scrooge and ask for donations for the poor is missing
The worst of Vincent Price’s roles is that of Baka from the Cecil B. DeMille remake of “THE 10 COMMANDMENTS”.
Scrooge played by Taylor Holmes. The same guy who voiced King Stefan in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
So good and so terrible, lol. 😅😅😅😂😂
12:41 This scene is terrible. Show, Don't Tell!
Uh huh.
Anything is better than that lame Disney movie.? It was supposed to be.
You better be in reference to the Jim Carrey adaptation instead of the Mickey Mouse version.
God rest ye merry gentlemen when chimps have ate their legs, a Martian came to Denver and gave my mom some pegs, she used them for her washing and put them on her nose, good tidings and moon pies on our heads moon pies on heads, good tidings when we are in our beds. 🌚🌙🏃🏃🌕🏃🏃😴😴😴🚻🚺🚶🚉🎑🍫🍫🎅🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄🐵🐒🐵👽👽👽👽👽⭐⭐👑🏪
come again?
They spelled Ebenezer wrong.
Thanks... Good catch
there is always that ONE person...bah humbug, spell checker...let us pray!
chelle l spears 😂😂 they must not have anything else to do but check everyone's spelling..
@@chellelspears5380 they think there so much smarter than anyone else. Who cares about spelling. Really.
Come on, the 1962. Mr.Magoo version was way better than this. His ghost of Christmas future was scarier for a cartoon.😗
Oh dear! The Plank School of Acting I fear. Why did Vincent Price have anything to do with this.......
Because he was a regular on co-producer Mike Stokey's "PANTOMIME QUIZ" at the time (and one of his best players!).
Tiny Tim and his damn Uke.
It's Christmas day, and tomorrow we live our dismal lives again. Jim Cratchet.
What's with the mix of American and English accents? They honestly couldn't cast ACTORS across the board who could do English accents? I mean, the acting in general isn't horrible, but I've seen community theater productions that felt more professional!
TV was very new back then - Hollywood had not yet released their film libraries for broadcast (that wouldn't happen until 1957), so the networks had to create 16 hours worth of original programming per day. There were relatively few TV sets in the US in 1949, which meant sponsors didn't pay much for ad spots. Little cash plus zero time equals big compromises in quality. At the time, the medium was so new nobody cared. It was the beginning of a whole new era and it was fascinating.
Also, people back then didn't nitpick everything to death. Not like today.
@@jeremyzak654 - Amen! It started when "Star Wars" came out in 1977. Before that, people were happy with drive in movies, TV movies of the week, etc. Everyone knew those big budget extravaganzas were reserved for special events, i.e., "Ben Hur." A few weeks after "Star Wars" premiered, suddenly everyone turned their backs on little films. Everything had to be a $50 million all-star event with symphonic score and wall-to-wall special effects, or else it was labeled "crap." I really hated that mentality when it started and I hate it now even more.
Well, this one is better than the 1954 musical version with Fredric March as Scrooge.
This "short" began with 2 minutes of credits and singing before it got to it's story. That's just fiddling around when you only have 25 minutes. Bad start for me.
Bad acting...great story
Their makeup from that time periid looks like they are wearing masks, especially Scrooge.