I LOVE A CHRISTMAS CAROL!
Obviously, the original book is the best version of any format because it is the original source material but as long as other versions stick close to that source then I will more than likely enjoy it.
Below are just some of the MANY film and TV versions out there for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.
Read more about A Christmas Carol here.
Contents
1900’s
I haven’t watched this version but I have included it as it is a silent movie piece of history and the earliest screen version that was made.
Read more about Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost (1901), starring Daniel Smith, here.
1910’s
Another version I haven’t watched but again I have included it as it is a silent movie piece of history. This one was made in America by the Edison Film Company and is the second earliest screen version after Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost (1901)
Read more about A Christmas Carol (1910), starring Marc McDermott, here.
1930’s
Another version I haven’t watched but I have included it as it is a very early screen version.
Read more about Scrooge (1935), starring Seymour Hicks, here.
1950’s
This is a great screen version.
Read more about Scrooge (1951), starring Alastair Sim, here.
1970’s
This is my all-time favourite screen version and always brings fond memories of my Mom as we watched this every year together.
Read more about Scrooge (1970, starring Albert Finney, here.
This is a good screen-animated version.
Read more about A Christmas Carol (1971), starring Alastair Sim, here.
1980’s
This is a great screen version.
Read more about A Christmas Carol (1984), starring George C. Scott, here.
1990’s
This is a great screen version.
Read more about A Christmas Carol (1999), starring Patrick Stewart, here.
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Notes And Links
Liliboas on iStock. The image shown at the top of this page of a Christmas tree and presents is the copyright of Liliboas. You can find more great work from the photographer Lili and lots more free stock photos at iStock.
Charles Dickens Museum – Official website. The museum is situated at 48 Doughty Street, Dickens’s London home from 1837-1839. He moved there with his wife Catherine and their eldest son Charlie. After the Dickenses left Doughty Street, the property was largely used as a boarding house until the Dickens Fellowship purchased it as their headquarters in 1923. The house opened to the public in 1925 and houses a significant collection linked to Dickens and his works.
Today the Charles Dickens Museum is set up as though Dickens himself had just left. It appears as a fairly typical middle-class Victorian home, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations which are known to have belonged to Dickens. A visit to the museum allows you to step back into 1837 and to see a world which is at once both intimately familiar, yet astonishingly different. A world in which one of the greatest writers in the English language, found his inspiration.
Charles Dickens Museum official Facebook page.
Charles Dickens Museum official Twitter page.
Project Gutenberg – Project Gutenberg is an online library of free e-books and was the first provider of free electronic books. Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, invented e-books in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of them and related content today.
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