I really like silent movies. I’ve always tried to avoid judging any movie through the lens of the present and understand it by the terms of its own time. Doing that with this version just accentuates what I think are some of its failings. By the time the first movies […]
Tonight, I had my annual viewing of the 1913 silent version of A Christmas Carol, called Old Scrooge. Because the silent versions are generally short and only a handful remain, I watch all that are available every year. The 1913 silent version is another offering from England. This was the […]
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 […]