[Watched on Fawesome]
"The Christmas Carol" is a 25 minute special that was narrated by Vincent Price, in what was one of his earlier works. A cheesy depiction of the Charles Dickens story, it spends nearly 2 minutes on the intro credits, and about the same for the end credits. The actual film itself is barely 20 minutes, when you get to the acting.
I love the idea of Vincent Price just reading to an audience, which thankfully, later in his career, he did record a few pieces of literature.
Scrooge isn't really seen as the typically depicted evil boss, I guess that at this point in film, things were more subtle in how scenarios were depicted. Much of the original story is skimmed over to get to the "main part", where Scrooge is haunted.
Scrooge's acting was really cheesy, in fact, much of the acting was cheesy. When the ghost of Christmas past tried to show Scrooge the woman who divorced him because of his greed, it was so silly to me, how Scrooge ran away.
I think that the special was intended for children, it's pretty silly, and not that serious. The sound effect for the dramatic moments was so loud, that it couldn't come off as anything but comedic.
Not much was shown in the newspaper archives, though in the couple of clippings I found, Vincent Price was the main "advertisement" for the special.
A silly and short watch, interesting if you're curious about early film, and TV specials from that time period.
