Scrooge (1901) The Most Complete Version

[@Johncourt409]

This has got to be some of the very first special effects on film. I’ll bet the people who saw it in 1901 were impressed and maybe even a bit spooked. Thanks for posting this.

[@hoosez]

The technology to do these kind of special effects, IN 1901, is utterly astounding. If I ever win a lottery, a sizeable chunk will go to the film preservation society, so that stuff like this will exist for centuries to come. 🎄❤✌

[@ALLNEWSUX1]

Well don't forget about people like Georges Méliès who was doing some very cool special effects in the 1890s...I just love how special effects look in silent cinema

[@kermitsghost]

Incredible to think this was not too long after the book was written and is over 120 years old, thanks for posting👍😀👍

[@ZC-Infinity]

This is still about 60 years after the book, and likely when the work had lapsed into the public domain, so even when this was made, the story was already well-known and likely done to death by constant readings and performances. Still, for one of the first filmed adaptations of the work, this is damn impressive.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

122 Years! An amazing and precious recording! Great effects as well!

[@bill-2018]

The quality is really quite good for it's age.

[@NightfallShadow]

Thanks for the upload. I have been trying to collect all of the silent movie scrooges and adding christmas music to them from wax cylinders from the same time period. With this it will complete the ones I need and unless there was one made before this then I will have all of them.

[@nealc.6927]

Are you going to release them in some format?

[@NightfallShadow]

@@nealc.6927 I uploaded them to my chanel. I might make a torrent of them sometime too.

[@umlaut8320]

The missing two minutes were though be lost forever. How did you get this?

[@digitalblunt]

There is no new footage, the original film has been slowed down.

[@joan5582]

How in the world did they do the ghost transparency in 1901?!?!

[@FrederikOlsen]

My uneducated guess would be carefully planned double exposure.

[@nealc.6927]

That was very interesting. Obviously filmed on a Stage-Set rather than at a Studio, and is quite possibly a contemporary Theatre Production at the time of filming. Some very clever work in Post Processing, considering cinematography is still in its infancy - especially making Marley's Ghost reasonably translucent. They must have filmed at least two sessions for the Christmas Past scenes to get that translucency . . . The acting was, of course, hammy as hell, but in the age of Silent Movies you expect it, so a Pass for that. For what it is, despite the limitations of the period, and for its age and place in cinema history - 7/10

[@vermilliongecko]

Evidence suggests that producer Robert W. Paul's version of A Christmas Carol was based as much on J. C. Buckstone's popular stage adaptation Scrooge as on Dickens' original story.

[@vincents.4369]

Happy holidays everyone! 🎄

[@neclark08]

...and Happy Holidays to You, too..!

[@67nairb]

Merry Christmas to you all.

[@benjaminmandeville4430]

We all think silent films are scary by today's standards, Imagine how scary they were back then.

[@FatShork]

I've never heard anyone say that silent films are scary

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

*by

[@benjaminmandeville4430]

@@FatShork Be a man and admit it, saying their not doesn't make you a tough guy

[@lindagurrera685]

Incredible

[@senatorsparky]

Very cool, but needs more Muppets

[@leonardosomma4196]

"such a meagre feast" "But very much appreciated...."

[@JPLOWMAN2]

The dude in the glasses is Scrooge? I thought he was Bob Cratchit at first

[@ghostmitotes555]

Very cool

[@67nairb]

MERRY XMAS.

[@R3D4CTED]

cool

[@AngryRantsAndStuff]

"Fair use"? It's in the public domain. No one can do anything to you anyway.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Pre silent film

[@acfahmy]

The original 4:02

[@bastminken5249]

💰

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Notice that in this take on the novella, it's Jacob Marley's ghost who shows Scrooge his past, present, and future, while the three Christmas spirits are completely left out. I've heard of literary license, but this is ridiculous! I'll bet Charles Dickens' descendants hated this film. They should have sued whoever made it.

[@enflamedhuevos]

I mean tbf it was 1901 lol I’d imagined Dickens’ descendants were probably just stunned to see special effects in a film

[@garyproffitt5941]

Ebenezer Scrooge with Marley's Ghost starring the infamous and its hot in here Tory Wealthy Criminals with Houses of Parliament.