It’s a short film that runs under four minutes and somehow tells the entire story in brief visions, from Scrooge in the shop to Marley’s ghostly head appearing in the door to Scrooge seeing his own grave in the future. We see the first adaptation of A Christmas Carol in 1901, titled as Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost, made just past the turn of the century and in the very early days of cinema. Over the 119 years since the first adaptation of the story, there’s an arc that prevails when looking at the grand picture: first, a quest to perfect A Christmas Carol in film, then, to take the story in unique directions. But amongst the insanity of these films, a theme emerges. While I haven’t seen everything, I’ve seen enough to be considered an authority on the matter and promptly dragged off to an insane asylum. I’ve seen this story at its best, and I’ve seen the depths of hell that it can be dragged down to. While I’m nowhere near complete, I’ve already seen 56 different versions of it, which is a lot. Hi, I’m Jackson, and it’s a personal goal of mine to watch every available version of A Christmas Carol. While it’s one thing to make all these films, it’d be insane to actually watch them, right? Then they did it again, and again, and again, and now we have well over 100 different film adaptations of A Christmas Carol, making it one of the most filmed stories in all of cinema history, alongside the likes of Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur. By the time cinema started blooming into the story-telling medium we know it as, filmmakers wanted to adapt this popular tale, and that is exactly what they did. The book was a hit, turning the protagonist, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and other pivotal characters, such as Jacob Marley, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, or Bob Cratchit and his son Tiny Tim, into household names, instantly recognizable to people around the world. In 1843, Charles Dickens first published A Christmas Carol, the story of a man who, over the course of a night, is visited by four ghosts who help him transform from a selfish miser into a kind-hearted gentleman.
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