Today’s two A Christmas Carol adaptations are animated versions meant for a juvenile audience. The first time I included either on the annual blog was back in 2019. I like the contrast of putting them together. The Flintstones A Flintstones’ Christmas Carol is from 1994; it was originally a syndicated […]
I begin my “Female Fridays” with the version that has become a tradition. It is usually the first A Christmas Carol (ACC) adaptation I watch on the first Friday of the season. The last decade of the 20th Century introduced the first adaptation of A Christmas Carol where portraying Scrooge, […]
Updated / modern-day adaptations of A Christmas Carol are not uncommon anymore. Most are usually U.S. centric and produced. An English modern-day adaptation was refreshing when it was made. It still is as it reaches its twenty-first year. 2000’s A Christmas Carol, originally presented on ITV, still isn’t available on […]
John Grin’s Christmas is a rarely seen adaptation of A Christmas Carol. It has become regular viewing for me during the last few years. This little gem is only the second time I’m including it on the annual blog. This adaptation was originally an ABC network television special. The network […]
It has become my unintended routine in the last few years to watch the 1935 Seymour Hick’s Scrooge as the first traditional version of A Christmas Carol in my yearly viewing smorgasbord. This year, I decided to “mix it up” a bit by watching the 2012 Irish version. The last […]
Musical Monday The end of the 1970’s was an unusual time. I have always felt it was a real low-tide in general for arts and entertainment. Of course, the culmination would be the decade coming to a close in 1979. As I’ve written before, 1979 was one of those interesting […]
Silent Sunday The oldest surviving version of A Christmas Carol (ACC) on film is Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost from 1901. This is only the second time I’ve included it in the annual “watch-a-thon.” I have never fully written about this version before, giving it only brief references, instead. An incomplete […]