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A Christmas Carol (1908)

A Christmas Carol poster
Directed by
Tom Ricketts
Genre
drama film, silent film, Christmas film, ghost film
Country
United States
Runtime
15 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A miserly old man is visited by spirits who show him his past, present, and future on Christmas Eve. This is the first American film version of the classic Charles Dickens story.

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What happens

A Christmas Carol is a 1908 silent film produced by Essanay Studios in Chicago, and the first American film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. Tom Ricketts stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the film, which is considered a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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