Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Chuck Jones' A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1971)



OK, it's the Holiday season. Let's go watch an Oscar-award-winning adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, executive produced by Chuck Jones with the voice of Alastair Sim as Scrooge! For now, there's only one -- just one place -- to see this: YouTube.

It's not on DVD. Ands that's crummy. This show has some serious pedigree; the guy who brought us THE GRINCH (the cartoon, not the Jim Carrey monster) is the executive producer and it's directed by the animation director of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. I remember seeing it in 1971, and once or twice since then -- but only by chance. It's not a holiday TV tradition ala CHARLIE BROWN or those Rankin Bass puppet specials or the MISTER MAGOO special. Go figure!

YouTube's rules means a 28 minute vid has to be sliced up into smaller segments. Here are the links if you have the time to watch.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave One

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Two

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Three

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Four

Thanks to Grant Miehm for reminding me of this special, which I had forgotten about until now!


- The above was originally posted on December 11, 2007. And this is still not available on DVD or Blu Ray or whatever so far as I know.

3 comments:

Nick Fechter said...

Aaaaaaah Youtube, without it watching my favorite animated movies of the past would be impossible.

Thanks for sharing Mike!

Anonymous said...

Wow, thanks for posting this! I, too, watched it as a kid, and had forgotten all about it.

Merry Christmas,
Jeff P.

Mike Lynch said...

The part that always gets me: when Marley's ghost unties that cloth around his head and his mouth swings open wide -- wailing -- YIPE! That, my friend, is the stuff of nightmares.