Looking back now on the six surviving silent movie versions of A Christmas Carol (there are at least three lost versions), while remembering that two of the six are fragments AND that we are seeing them on a small screen, what did we see? SETTINGS: The 1913 version does the most with exterior scenes.Continue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 7”
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SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6
There is occasional confusion online between the 1922 “Scrooge” and the 1923 “A Christmas Carol”. Each was made in England, and each was part of a longer series of films based on literature. The Gems of Literature series ranged farther afield in its sources, including Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. If you go huntingContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 4
Much as the previous silent Scrooges interested me, I am fascinated by the 1914 version. It runs to 22 minutes (some cuts are abrupt enough to suggest something is missing) and although Charles Rock makes a lively Scrooge, this is decidedly a Cratchit movie. We open with Bob Cratchit putting up holiday greeneryContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 4”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 2
This is a supplement to the comparison of film versions of A Christmas Carol, taking a look at the surviving silent versions. We considered the earliest surviving version, from 1901, last week. After a lost version of A Christmas Carol made in Chicago in 1908, the next, and first American, Christmas Carol was releasedContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 2”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement I
A sorry spot in serializing some of my non-fiction works in this space is a nagging refrain of “Remember how hard this was to research? Sure woulda been easier with the Interwebs”. Take, for example, my comparison of screen versions of “A Christmas Carol”, serialized herein not so long ago. It would easily haveContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement I”
Next Year’s Summer Movies
I have been less than perfectly successful selling these postcards as collectibles (you did note somewhere that I have these things for sale, right? It’s hard to tell, sometimes.) So, looking around for another way to make my millions, I wonder if I can sell a few movie studios on purchasing a bundle toContinue reading “Next Year’s Summer Movies”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Rules of the Game
The original text of “A Christmas Carol has been chopped into 47 sequences, which form the chapters of this book. For each of these, we start with Dickens’s original. (Why 47? Well, I wanted to do an even 50, but the book won’t break down that way. It insists on 47.) It hasContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Rules of the Game”
Preview Trailer
So we have come to the end of the serialization of another one of my bestsellers that no one ever bought, and which has become obsolete in the twenty years or so since I wrote it. It was an adventure to write Ranunculus to You in the Days when research demanded at least cabfareContinue reading “Preview Trailer”
Obscure AND Famous
People have had their portraits on postcards for sundry reasons. Some are so famous that postcard companies print pictures of them, knowing the public will buy famous faces. Others pay to have postcards printed of them in HOPES of celebrity. Sometimes that worked and the people became famous enough that the postcard companies paidContinue reading “Obscure AND Famous”
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