Getting Dressed - Victorian Maid, Christmas 1853

A Victorian maidservant dresses ready for a day of work, then ventures out into a cold evening...
Thanks to support from www.loveniplaw.co.uk/
Director/Cinematographer: Nicole Loven / crowseyeproductions
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Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven / periodwardrobe
Shoes - Kevin Garlick, www.kgarlick-shoemaker.co.uk/
Stockings - Sally Pointer www.sallypointer.com/shop
Dickens' suit - Andrew Musson
Voice-over: Martha Milne / machinequilter
Music: Chris Gordon www.chrisgordon.info/
Sound recordist: Alex Pollard
Make-up/hair: Liv Free / livfreemakeup
Hair stylist: Anita Cudbertson
Costume Assistant: Annis McGee
Runner - Stuart Riley
Runner - Kieran Speed
Maid - Kate Fenwick
Well dressed man - Elliot Sargent
Baker - Andrew MacDonald
Charles Dickens - David Clayton
Audience -
Liv Free
Naomi Lambert-Smith
Charlotte Napper
Carmel Kazadi
Charlotte Page
Karen Hunter
Emma Haigh
Pamela Marnie
Emily Bickerdike
Charlotte Brindley
Emma Kirkup
Stephanie Riley
Sarah Cliffe
Lucie Evans
Aiden Van Rensburg
Karen Y Crow
Kathy Coulson
William Richardson
Andrew MacDonald
Kieran Speed
Keith Loven
John Males
Will Quirk
Curtis Clapham
Filmed on Location in Lincoln, UK www.visitlincoln.com
Many thanks to:
The Village Church Farm, Skegness churchfarmvillage.org.uk/
Stephen Gillard
Stokes Coffee, Lincoln www.stokes-coffee.co.uk/folks...
Imperial Teas Lincoln www.imperialteas.co.uk/
Snowboy Systems www.snowboy.co.uk/
Andrew MacDonald / potshop1

[@julianna8151]

tbh it isnt a crowseye production until there are are garter ribbons above the knee

[@brokebassoon]

"Beneath the knee"!

[@strideryourself]

julianna ??? *Beneath

[@kaitlinr9735]

And some sort of long slip type thing "worn next to the skin"

[@scarletpimpernelagain9124]

Somebody says that about every one of these films I’ve watched so far. It’s about historical dress, what do you expect them to use?

[@thewestwind_]

@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 Chill out, party pooper

[@Angie-GoneSoon]

I got a little nervous when they showed that man walking behind her, very relieved when he walked past.... Jack the Ripper.... NOT TODAY!

[@unicornsprinkles3277]

Angie Roberts lol he wasn’t from dickenses times tho

[@73dmonty]

I had the exact thought! Wondered where this little social history video was headed!!! I even said to my husband, (who wasn't really watching) "Who's he supposed to be? Jack the Ripper??" Just glad to know I wasn't the only one with the thought.

[@annesuniverse]

i swear to god when he came up right behind her i almost had a heart attack

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

73dmonty Jack the Ripper was much later in the century.

[@raining214]

The Ripper murders happened through 1888 and only in Whitechapel as far as we know

[@jamwar764]

I feel like I am constantly being taken in a time machine. It's not just the clothing, it's the way the clothing was lived in. I feel like I'm there.

[@louise-yo7kz]

So true. Just wonderful these vids

[@eliiuu9597]

honestly, it's why i love historical fashion so much. and why i want to wear these older fashions so much. because i know so many people of all different backgrounds wore something similar.

[@nulnoh219]

A time machine invented by a very perverted person. We're always in the changing rooms.

[@seraphinasullivan4849]

No wonder they had a good time. "Alright, people, gather 'round and Mr. Dickens will tell you a ghost story about a cranky old miser who was scared straight into being nice to poor folks like you." I'd pay to see that. Bring all my equally poor friends and pay their entrance fees too

[@kriseats2158]

lmao!!!

[@i8anapplemac]

I wish we had pockets like that nowadays

[@vt1527]

Isla my ball gown as well as Dirndl dresses have hidden pockets like that! They are so great, I wish pockets like those were more common in modern clothing

[@jenniferstilger9134]

I get excited every time I find a maxi dress with pockets.. and every time someone would compliment me on my dress my first comment is always “Thanks! It has pockets!” And I show them off.

[@sarahhannah9647]

Pockets in dresses are heavenly! 😍

[@horseenthusiast1250]

Isla I just sew all my clothes with Big pockets now

[@Tina06019]

I sew big pockets into my skirts (obviously I don't wear pencil skirts!), and I also sewed a "pair of pockets" to wear around my waist when I am wearing one of the full skirts I make with reach-through slits hidden in the sides. Because, well, POCKETS!

[@catherinecao4810]

When that baker gave the maid some bread, I legit cried. It’s these acts of kindness that were brought to light by Dickens and his writing.

[@MiaTheodoratus]

Yea….I did too

[@carriemartinez2933]

He also brought to light, the gross injustices the poorer class had to endure!!!

[@catherinecao4810]

@@carriemartinez2933 and he did his best to fight them

[@dianemarrah3504]

Felt like I was there in Victorian times. Love it 😍!

[@itsshrimpinabag9544]

Me too

[@penguincookiez]

I LOVE how stories are now incorporated into the dressing videos. This series keeps getting better and better!

[@rokukou]

i agree! i noticed there is a warm little moment hidden in each video.

[@user-oj5bw7sl8p]

Feel so sorry for this poor maid! As most of English working class people in 19 century, she was living on only bread and tea, - with some small pie on the big holidays as a great treat. No fruits, no vegetables, permanent exhaustion due to the lack of vitamins and hard work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. Modern people are incredibly lucky to live much happier life nowadays, and these historical videos help us appreciate all the good things we have now. Even though we haven't got them for free,- labor unions were fighting for ages for every improvement in the life of working classes.

[@emilyb.8219]

That's why when people always comment on these kinds of videos "I was born in the wrong era, I love those clothes!" it makes me sigh. People disregard how hard the average person had it back then!

[@goldensloth7]

truth!

[@nielubieinceli]

do not forget that maids were often sexual abusing

[@user-oj5bw7sl8p]

@@nielubieinceli Yes, unfortunately, maids were often sexually abused,- and after that thrown out of the house, where they were working, pregnant and without any means to support themselves and the future child.

[@ionamoon4745]

For Christmas I think treatment of working class girls is still like that in some respects- you’d be surprised 😱

[@noellejones7164]

omg the fact that they fully costumed like 20-30 people just for this ONE video truly shows the quality and care that goes into these videos

[@kirstenirwin9084]

This was so very nice to watch. Brought on a smile and good for Charles Dickens doing this for the working class of London. They had very little time for themselves back then, so I bet this was a treat.

[@Apollo890]

Birmingham not London but yes very kind of him indeed.

[@MichelleOsorio]

As someone who is visiting my fiancé in Birmingham as we speak I have to mention my family constantly said “Have fun in London”. 😂

[@sewgatormomm]

Dickens was actually a horrible man. You should watch BBC Mrs. Dickens Family Christmas to see how really creepy he was.

[@monicad.2269]

Yep! Makes me tear up a bit seeing their expressions

[@LadySnowfaerie]

Dickens had lived as one of them for a few years as a boy, working in a shoe shine factory while his father was in prison. He never quite forgot the experience, so he championed to improve the worker's conditions with his writing in his later life. It wasn't so much him being nice as it was him being very driven and angry about what was happening.

[@dgcclan9445]

I love how you put the fashion into context with contemporaneous events. Such a delight!!!

[@PhilosophicalBum21]

It was oh so very lovely! Especially the ambiance and all the little details. Like our main maid's poor hands were so red and so cold as she got changed for the day. Really makes you feel like we really are in a drafty house in the middle of winter in the 1800s. I especially love the sense of mystery as we watched all these different types of working people waiting in line. This thought of "What amazing thing are all these people waiting for? I suppose I'll wait too and see what all the fuss is about!" Really makes you feel like you were there in person.

[@monmothma3358]

Yes it was a very nice builup and I loved the revelation!

[@virginiaeatchel]

I’m sitting here, crying at work. This is absolutely gorgeous. The look on the maid’s face as she takes in the story, as she admires the bread in the window…. This video drives home what’s so important to me about the holiday season: the little things that we must never take for granted. When I was a little girl my favorite book was the Polar express, and my mother had a silver bell just like the one in the book that she would place under the tree every year for me and my brother to find once we were done with our gifts. We would pull it out and ring it, and it was always the most beautiful sound. Fast forward to adulthood, and I’m celebrating Christmas at my mother’s when she hands me a small box. It’s the very last Christmas gift under the tree. I open it and what do I find but that same silver bell. I burst into tears on the spot; the most thoughtful gift I have ever received. 🎄 🔔

[@zialuna3758]

Dickens was a proponent of the working class throughout his life and most of his novels due to his youth. The way I know this is because I loved A Christmas Carol so much growing up I decided to take a course on Dickens when it was offered at university. I loved the course, hated the professor, but learned far more than I expected to. 😉

[@louise-yo7kz]

A very conscientious man

[@sewgatormomm]

Watch BBC Mrs. Dickens Family Christmas. He was not a decent person at all. @@louise-yo7kz

[@marywebb9127]

@@sewgatormomm He had Mommy issues do to his resentment of his Mother. He blamed her for him going to the work house as a child.

[@YT4Me57]

@@marywebb9127 and that experience made him so conscientious about the life of the poor.

[@marywebb9127]

@@YT4Me57 Don't get me wrong I loved his books but he had issues with women. It stemed from his resentment of his Mother. He based his writings, novels and short stories on life experiences and people he knew. He treated his wife terribly late in his life. He based his Character Flora Flinching off his wife in "Little Doritt".

[@mintyonthemoon]

Gosh, I didn't expect to get so emotional about Dickens pricing his performance low enough for the working class to enjoy it. Incredibly special.

[@Agaettis]

I'm having a very hard time mentally right now...and this was a wonderful treat for me. Thank you

[@louise-yo7kz]

Do feel better soon

[@WaysideArtist]

Sending you some emotional backup. 💕

[@maireadmaguire4589]

I promise it will get better. You’re joy in the little things will see you through.

[@mariagallo2355]

Love for you 💗

[@lozzylols]

I hope you find yourself in a better place very soon, I totally understand how you feel. Take care x

[@jeywithane130]

it's become my own silly christmas tradition to watch this video, and gosh, i always get emotional. it's so well done.

[@juliak1615]

Oh that is not at all silly! I just rediscovered this gem of a video and honestly, I feel like rewactching it every Christmas as well. :)

[@blissgirl9052]

Could be those delightful pregnancy hormones but yes, this made me cry. Just lovely.

[@teresitaromero4325]

Bliss Fancy me too and I’m not even pregnant.

[@MarinaLKitchen]

Not pregnant either and I cried too!

[@rosrychaplet]

Congrats

[@ilsev4795]

Same, the christmas adverts are starting to appear on tv and I cry everytime! Hormones....

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

I'm a guy and I got weepy at the end

[@jiminsthighsrapmonsdimples6240]

This made me tear up not gonna lie, especially when the man gave her some bread. It felt like an optimistic remark that A Christmas Carol was based on real kindness

[@MorganJServices]

Your productions are too marvelous for words. I became so entranced. I was feeling everything of the wide eyed maid.

[@SeaMonkey137]

These "stories" are so much better than just descriptions of getting dressed in a specific period, and really add some dimension to the clothing described. Well done.

[@laurenconrad1799]

I love these videos, especially ones for working women, who don’t always get the wardrobe history videos they and their clothes deserve.

[@theanimeidiot8903]

I want to be at that reading. Can I be there? Did he actually go through the entire book? Oh, it would be so lovely to go see that! I would pay sixpence for that! I’d pay a crown!

[@michaelarichmond438]

There's a gentleman near me that every year dresses up as Dickens and does public performances of "A Christmas Carol". If you can believe it, he does an *even better* job than in this video! It's simply magical!

[@theanimeidiot8903]

Michaela Richmond Oh how lovely! I do wish I could go there! Where does he perform? Perhaps I can see the performance!

[@monkiram]

@@michaelarichmond438 I'd love to know too, please tell us where this is

[@michaelarichmond438]

@@theanimeidiot8903 and @monkiram His name is Mike Randall and he performs in Western New York. He is seriously fantastic. When he's performing you would swear there were 20 other people up there on stage!

[@theanimeidiot8903]

Michaela Richmond *packs bags* ok so I’ll go to the annoying city only this once but I want some Shakespeare so-

[@minasees]

i just watched “the one who invented christmas”! and seeing this right after is just delightful!! i am absolutely in love with your ‘getting dressed’ series!

[@a.z.s6679]

minasmiles can u post the link to The one who invented Christmas. I can’t seem to find it

[@Gamers-xi3bl]

Wow this explains so much of why "Scrooge" is such a famous story. It isnt because its Christmas season but because Dickens himself had read it to his own audience back in 1853. This is truly beautiful.

[@pixielocks3290]

I'm really struggling mentally and emotionally with the stresses of Christmas and this really put everything back into perspective for me. Thank you so much for such a wonderful video. A Christmas carol was always my favourite story and that's not me being bias because I played Belinda Cratchit in my high school production over 15 years ago. It really sends across the message that family and love are all that matter at Christmas. Not gifts or the latest gadgets or how much money you have to flaunt but about those who are nearest and dearest to you. Merry Christmas x

[@h.calvert3165]

Pixie Locks God bless you, & may your Christmas be beautiful! May the rest of your life be filled with love. 🎄 💖 🎄

[@roet8792]

I'm not entirely sure but this video made me cry

[@snippetsofvictoria]

I teared up a little when the baker gave that little cake to her

[@korkronwarlord]

Me too friend, me too. Its hard to explain but its just there, that feeling of good towards one self and your fellow man through a fantasticly told tale.

[@thedameofmuir5373]

Crows eye productions are just stunning. They get me aswell everytime 🥲

[@kokonana4086]

So heart-warming when the baker handing her a piece of bread. Love the entire production. Really feel like I'm riding a time-machine and going back in time.

[@impagain]

Dicken's performance was wonderful. I wish I could go back in time for a day and watch the man himself perform a reading of it for certain!

[@angharad.9743]

This reminds me of that doctor who episode where they meet dickens

[@brandonphipps4755]

I really enjoyed this! Please continue to make these fantastic videos! I really enjoyed this but I wanted so badly for the story to continue on. It would be amazing if u could make similar episodes of other classics. I wanted to know more about this girl and what happened after the show! Does she go home and tell the other maids about how the show was and what she thought? Is there an older head maid who thinks stories and fairy tails are for children? Does this girl get to teach this older lead maid the joy of stories? I don't want it to end! We want more we want more we want more....lol. Great work guys!! Bravo!!!

[@erynhofland4744]

Brandon Phipps Why don’t you write that story?

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

Brandon---I never heard such questions before. I agree with Eryn: you might try to outline your ideas, identify a theme (such as "imagination is not only for professional writers"), choose your cast of characters, and you're ready to roll.

[@brandonphipps4755]

Wow u totally put me in a spot that I'm not sure or. I want to say oh I could never but at the same time I have been writing since I was a kid. I actually call myself a old Hollywood historian because I am obsessed with that topic. But I'm also very intrigued by general and typical lives of earlier centuries. Right now I am reading gone with the wind, and I finished this book that I really enjoyed but I can't think of the name nor the book before it! Something about tenafly road, a man is hurt in a war(civil maybe) and he is thought to die so he is given lots of morphine. He doesn't die and he left the hospital not only with his life but also a bad wound that begins to fester along with an addiction to morphine. Such a good book! The other was like a prairie girls story and her dad dies in a bad snow storm the night she is born. I found this channel because of my nonstop research of the civil war, native Americans and American history and so on. Could I write it? Yeah. But. More importantly would it be good? Could but would it be amazing and worthy? Probably not lol

[@brandonphipps4755]

I could see this girl in the video having a story line similar to possibly a Jane eyre mixed with maybe Melanie from gone with the wind and maybe end it with a bit from the movie the enchanted cottage or even lord Fauntleroy or little women

[@93midnightsunrise]

Do it! Write it! And post it to Archive of Our Own so we can read it. It’s one of the best sites for fan-fiction.

[@Apollo890]

Nice little trick you pulled there when it showed a gentleman approaching from behind and the music seemed to get ominous and I'm thinking Jack the Ripper but no this is Christmas not Halloween.

[@tabs157]

Am always so happy when I see one of these videos 😁😁😻

[@SeliahK]

Whoever the actor was playing Dickens... bravo, he was VERY lively, and great to listen to. Love it. :) Love the whole series, too. I'm a 3D artist, so these videos, and the depths that they go to (including how the garments are fastened!) are invaluable for research for some of the things I make. Thank you!

[@JadeStrawberry]

This was a lovely story.

[@MsSteelphoenix]

I LOVE that there are people of colour in this film! They are so often forgotten and they were definitely there.

[@stepchildofsoul]

Indeed, thanks for that.

[@snowyskylar8821]

It's not culturally correct. 3 cheers for European Christian Man

[@stepchildofsoul]

@@snowyskylar8821 Shut it, fool. Africans of all social strata were present in London as far back as the Roman era of European history. It wasn't until at least a century later that cowards like you started rejecting and demeaning other humans.

[@scouttyra]

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[@berkleypearl2363]

We just closed up Dickens on the Strand here in Galveston. It’s my favorite festival! There’s a parade, shops that sell all kinds of fun stuff, costume contests, and everyone dresses up in a vaguely mid 1800’s style and it’s so much fun! I was able to purchase a beautiful 1870’s style day dress at the festival for hardly over 100 bucks because it was the last day

[@MizzKittyBichon]

No way! That's so cool! I would love to go to a 19th century-inspired event like that!

[@christinesarkis4029]

I didn't go this year because I was sick, but it's always a great time. I hope I can find the time to sew a costume for next year!

[@JeantheSecond]

😮 Why can’t my city do this?!

[@kaitiewoodard5748]

I’ve wanted to go for a while but I didn’t want to without period clothes but I’ve decided to make my own ensemble and go next Christmas! I’ve heard it’s wonderful

[@relayniedarcy]

Aww, that’s lovely! Of course, I now want Charles Dickens (or someone dressed like him) to read me The Christmas Carol in its entirety.

[@malenasander7906]

These series make me watch Downtown Abbey again. It’s how the live of those living in that century actually coming to live. Thanks for entertaining us with history 😊

[@chrisholland7367]

Downtown Abbey was turn of century drama. Queen Victoria had already died her son Edward Vll had become king it was also the lead up to ww1 .

[@bbth667]

Downtown Abbey is set a while after the 1850s, but yess!I'm going to watch it too

[@gerardacronin334]

The first episode of Downton Abbey was set at the time the Titanic sank in April 1912. This video is set approximately 60 years prior to that.

[@stardresser1]

These CrowsEye dressing videos are SOOOOOOOOO good. I'm a costume designer/wardrobe stylist of 30 years in la, and I have to say, these are flawless. Beautiful, accurate, informative, artistic, and made like gorgeous little movies. Not only are they all of the above, but if you are tired, but wired, they will put you to sleep! (kind of like Bob Ross, another favorite.) LOVE THESE!

[@Juliana-kc1sv]

as a costume designer, there's nothing i love more than these videos. clothes have souls, and you always seem to communicate that !!!

[@colinp2238]

The costumes kook so good and the narration by the actor playing Dickens really excellent! In my home town too, it's the first that I have heard of that. It would be good if you could do a full production of any Dickens story but especially A Christmas Carol, my favourite Christmas story . I watch various productions every December without fail and wold add yours to my watch list if it ever came about.

[@CrowsEyeProductions]

We are musing on the idea of dramatising 'The Chimes' for a Christmas yet to come...

[@colinp2238]

@@CrowsEyeProductions Really? That would be interesting and would introduce some to lesser known Dicken's work. I believe that it was his next publication after Christmas Carol but I may be wrong.

[@veccakeka464]

I don’t know why, but tears wouldn’t stop running down my cheeks. For some reason i feel both filled with joy and sorrow. Excellent portrayal!

[@AeonSaint]

Wishing everyone a happy St. Nicholas evening. Merry christmas to everyone. "God bless us, every one!"

[@epd1113]

I love your videos. The main lady in this one is so stunning.

[@thatoneemokid9030]

i yelled out “YAY!” when i saw this, i’ve been looking forward to this video ever since it was teased, and i can definitely say that i’m not disappointed! merry early christmas❤️🎄

[@nardo218]

Can you do a little bit later, the Edwardian era? I've read Anne of Green Gables, the whole series, several times. I'd like to know what Marilla and Anne were going around in. Especially how Anne could "run like a deer" in her cotton homespun if she was wearing a lot of underwear under there.

[@torriem1653]

This was so lovely. Watching these videos makes me miss my grandmother and how much I wish I could show them to her. She would get such a kick out of them. I hope your team continues to bring such seemingly simple routines of our ancestors to life. Thank you for your art!

[@petuniaandpoppy4615]

Enchanting. Again you capture the atmosphere and texture of the past.

[@jenjenjennyful]

The George C. Scott Christmas Carol is a tradition in my family, we watch it every year! Amazing production. I married a Muslim and am Muslim now and I STILL watch it every Christmas. It's the one tradition I won't ever let die.

[@akaymac1]

Every year we go to a show where Charles Dicken’s great-great grandson, who is an actor, does the same performance. It’s absolutely magical! The highlight of the Christmas season every year!

[@calicocloth]

How wonderful!

[@gheldmann]

I adore these videos. A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas tales, so I loved this episode! Am I the only one who teared up when the baker gave the maid some bread? Or how Dickens made sure the price of admittance was affordable? Simple kindnesses like that keep me going.

[@emilyb.8219]

This was so peaceful and pleasant. It made me want to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol (that's the best version of A Christmas Carol, don't @ me)

[@Ticket2theMoon]

I’m reading A Christmas Carol with my 8 year old daughter and she’s loving it. This video helped her get a clearer idea of what everyone would look like. She did say she wondered what it would be like for the kids to get dressed. 😊

[@angharadlloyd473]

I think little girls would wear a very similar outfit just without the corset.

[@itsshrimpinabag9544]

I cried so hard watching this. . . Dickens really was one of the best men that ever lived. It is amazing how your touching portrayal of this girl with a hard life made A Christmas Story even more meaningful.

[@grey_roses]

Great video! I always enjoy seeing the 'shapes' of an era's dress in its most pragmatic forms. When I was at University, every year...in the relief after exams, before we left for Winter break...the head of the Drama department would put on his Dickens duds & do the most amazing reading of 'A Christmas Carol'. He made your hair stand on end when Christmas Present confronts Scrooge over the horrible children sheltering in his robes: 'Are there no *workhouses* ?' *Number Expunged* years later, & I still remember his performance every Christmas...just as described here, nothing but the man on the stage & the characters leaping from his book. 〰💙👏

[@nordiskkatt]

The production values of this series is something else! Lovely costumes, of course, but such pretty and realistic settings, and your actors are stellar. It was mesmerising, watching the maidservant get mesmerised! Thanks for your work!

[@brandonphipps4755]

Whoa!!!! The lead actresses name is Kate Fenwick! That's interesting because one of my favorite actress is Katherine Hepburn who lived in her entire life in Fenwick CT. Interesting!!

[@lisad1532]

I love this site ;Keep using the premiere features 😊 I am sure I speak for many who look forward to new shows

[@calicocloth]

It’s always a pleasure to share the release of a new film with you all!

[@EnglishVirgo]

This moved me. I don't know if it is hormones or just empathy for those struggling through tough times and them having a wonderful evening away from work, but I had tears in my eyes. VERY well done.xx

[@emsuckz]

I played bell the maid in a school performance of a Christmas carol last winter and not only did this being back memories it brought a smile to my face considering i can’t be in school rn and can’t preform I really miss all that but seeing this really made me happy 🥺

[@YT4Me57]

Oh my goodness, the ending made me cry. What a delightful little film! Thank you 🌲

[@annakoszegi5176]

This put me in the mood to do something good for a random stranger tomorrow!

[@TheNinjaInConverse]

This was charming, and I cannot wait to see a few more Christmas-inspired videos over the next couple weeks. Keep up the good work:)

[@Hartsikasvo]

These videos are so lovely! The atmosphere and the costumes are perfect!

[@korkronwarlord]

Few KZbin videos have moved me to tears as much as this and the Tell Them Of Us - series. I've seen various film adaptions of A Christmas Carol but to have the chance to actually hear it read by Charles Dickens himself, now that would have been an artistic litterature experienced in its fullest. I do so much hope this channel will continue to produce equally fantastic videos.

[@aracthedragon]

Oh, I adored this. I adored this so much. My family and I have watched the 1984 movie version of "A Christmas Carol," the one with George C. Scott, every year at Christmas time since I was six years old. I can recite whole parts from it from memory, I've seen it so many times. This was so delightful. Finding out that Charles Dickens insisted that one of his first public performances of "A Christmas Carol" be affordable to working class folks made me choke up. Thank you for this, you guys do such wonderful videos.

[@annapaulikonis2433]

Watch the Musical Versio 1970, with Albert Finney.Excellent Version.

[@wejdanalzaid4315]

I've been brought to tears by this thank you T.T

[@sadiedavenport]

Oh my goodness these are just so gorgeously made 😱😍 thank you so much for these!

[@ellaisplotting]

These videos are absolute delights. I adore them. Marvellous work!

[@marieb3525]

That was amazing, first the dressing and then the walk in the snow (which actually made me feel cold) to the reading. I felt like I was been put in their shoes. For the first time in my life I felt the true weight of A Christmas Carol as it would've been to the poor of the time. Truly fantastic!

[@wejdanalzaid4315]

your production is just so amazing

[@WondrousEarth]

She has a gentle calm way about her, fine video about fashion of the day for the Victorian maid.

[@JosieAreSee]

Awww. This whole Dickens re-enactment made me feel warm and fuzzy

[@pay1370]

Amazing production as always!

[@libellle]

Keep this series up. I love it. It's so beautiful, has a really nice atmosphere and you can really see that you put a lot of work into it.

[@rosacisneros9184]

I loved it !! I literalky felt being transported to victorian era. Just discovered you a week ago and I love your videos :)

[@pinkbunny6272]

I have great memories of the traditional German Christmas, because of my grandmother. The party described in this tale is the same. It makes me so happy.

[@amandagrayson389]

Wow. Your videos are always so amazing. I really love how you connect the person and the clothes with the times. It all makes better sense that. And gives us just a little glimpse into a window of the past.

[@karlyross2871]

These videos are just so aesthetically pleasing.

[@s.g.p.4925]

I wish I lived then... I love your videos they are spectacular!!! They really put me in the mood

[@traceej4685]

Oh Crowseyesproduction you make it really hard to choose a favorite every time you upload a new video. My new favorite!

[@satapon4129]

This is so magical, thank you!

[@FreakShowKirby]

This was beautiful

[@andreacarpenter8824]

Dickens's reading his own work, "A Christmas Carol", was wonderful! It was nice he remembered his roots snd charged such a modest amount so that "working stiffs" could here a great work by a grear writer! I also liked that the clothing was for average, workaday women. Keep 'em coming, please!

[@josuadinkelkorn5613]

I really have no idea how I ended up here. This kind of video is actually not what I use to watch but I enjoyed every single minute of it. What a heartwarming tiny, little movie. And what a wonderful homage to the beauty of fashion and the beauty of a women. And isn't she lovely? And lets not forget the sweet tribute to christmas and solidarity. Very Dickens-esk indeed. Well done, CrowsEyeProductions, I'm going for more videos of yours! Many greetings from Berlin.

[@nielubieinceli]

no, this dress is simply ugly and uncomfortable :)

[@justanotherreader]

That was so beautiful. I loved the reading and the reactions from the audience.

[@crenner07]

I always love it when something has pockets. But I have never had a dress have such glorious pockets as that gown!

[@rosaliecrawford1841]

What a great video, as always, beautifully done... I know it was a hard life and time to live in, but I still think it was a special time and place to be. Imagine seeing Dickens reading his work, live? How wondrous it must have been.

[@theda.desmond]

I'm absolutely in love with this series. I don't know if you take recommendations anymore, but Marie Antoinette would be amazing! And maybe something about the Rosie The Riveter era? Please never stop making these videos. ❤️

[@calicocloth]

One of those two ideas is under consideration!

[@akaneh1989]

I have watched this video several times as it is one of my favourites but only now did I notice the baker giving the young maid a sweet biscuiz or muffin of some kind. It melted my heart again, just as this video always does. Thank you for it and the others❤

[@berylgilligan9287]

Wow just watched this and I suddenly feel extra Christmassy 🥰 I love dickens and all his books 📚

[@Rednesswahn]

Awesome! It great getting immersed in the Christmas Carol and the winter scenary, thank you and Merry Christmas! :)

[@janebeckman3431]

Don't forget the white cotton or linen collar tucked into the neckline to protect the neckline fabric of the dress.

[@Homekeeper1]

what a wonderful way to tell a story. An insight into their practical daily dressing, and then a short story about something that happened during that time period. I'm in heaven!

[@Persephonemybff]

Beautiful as ever!!! Absolutely adore ur videos, the production value is just stunning!

[@khayanaeva8174]

The actor who played the maid was VERY good! Her reaction in the final sequence got me choked up.

[@rysunshine5715]

Well done to the Dickens actor in particular! I'd happily listen to an audiobook by him, or go see him read a story.

[@sarahc1371]

I’d love to listen to a full reading from this man, he’s so expressive that it pulls you in and you just get lost in the story.

[@kimquinn7728]

You know, this was a fantastic video and the clothing and sets perfect. I do not, myself, celebrate Christmas, however, the spirit of kindness, generosity, selflessness, I do appreciate. I love Dickens Carol for all those lessons AND that man made me cry. I want a video of his performing the entire book,, to listen to at any season of the calendar. You don't need to be a celebrant of the holiday to appreciate the story. It is timeless. Thank you so much.