A Christmas Carol (1914)

Name: A Christmas Carol
Genre: silent film, Christmas film
Released: 1914-10-11
Duration: 23 min

Directed by: Harold M. Shaw
Genre: silent film, Christmas film
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Runtime: 23 min
Rating: 6.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

This is a silent short film from 1914. It is one of the earliest movie adaptations of Charles Dickens' story about a miserly man named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

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What happens

A Christmas Carol è un cortometraggio muto del 1914, diretto da Harold M. Shaw. Il cortometraggio è una delle prime versioni cinematografiche del romanzo Canto di Natale di Charles Dickens. Protagonista è l'attore britannico Charles Rock nel ruolo di Ebenezer Scrooge. Nel cast compare anche, nel ruolo di "Belle", l'attrice americana Edna Flugrath, sorella maggiore di Viola Dana e Shirley Mason, le quali nel 1910 avevano preso parte come attrici bambine ad un precedente adattamento cinematografico del romanzo di Dickens. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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