A Christmas Carol holiday miniseries – The opening notes

Not content to stick to Silo content alone this holiday season, Elysia and Luke are exploring the many iterations of perhaps the greatest Christmas tale ever told: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

In this quick episode we get into how we came to this topic, and what exactly we'll be covering (this year).

2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse

A Christmas Carol 2024 miniseries – films covered:

I. Sheet music – "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" & A Christmas Carol: the novella (Book Club exclusive)

II. Chorus – Classic A Christmas Carol adaptations:

Shorts:

1. “Scrooge” (1901, first filmed adaptation, part is missing, 6 min) 
2. “A Christmas Carol” (1910, the first surviving complete adaptation, 13 min)
3. “A Christmas Carol” (1971, animated, Oscar winner, 25 min)
4. “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” (1983, 26 min) – available on Disney+ outside Europe

Features:

1. A Christmas Carol (1951, Alastair Sim, 1h26)
2. A Christmas Carol (1984, George C. Scott, 1h40)
3. A Christmas Carol (1999, Patrick Stewart, 1st w/ digital VFX, 1h35)
4. Scrooge (1970, Albert Finney, most popular musical, 1h53)
5. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, 1h25 – Disney+) – the Muppets full-length version w/ "When Love Is Gone" song

III. Intermezzo – The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017, 1h44 – Disney+) + Charles Dickens' life

IV. Verse – Twisted A Christmas Carol adaptations

1. Scrooged (1988, 1h41)
2. Flintstone’s Christmas Carol (1994, 1h9)
3. A Diva’s Christmas Carol (2000, 1h24)
4. A New Diva’s Christmas Carol (2022 remake, 1h24)
5. It’s Christmas, Carol (2012, 1h30)
6. Spirited (2022, musical, 2h7 – Apple TV+)
7. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022, animated, loose remake of the 1970 Finney musical, sci-fi twist, 1h41 – Netflix)

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