Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost (1901)
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost (1901)
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Cast & Crew.
Daniel Smith
Ebenezer Scrooge
Walter R. Booth
Director
J.C. Buckstone
Writer
Charles Dickens
Writer
Robert W. Paul
Producer
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Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 1901
StatusReleased
Running Time6m
Content RatingG
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Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Daniel Smith) confronted by Jacob Marley's ghost and given visions of Christmas past, present, and future. It is the earliest film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
The film, "although somewhat flat and stage-bound to modern eyes," according to Ewan Davidson of British Film Institute's Screenonline, "was an ambitious undertaking at the time," as, "not only did it attempt to tell an 80 page story in five minutes, but it featured impressive trick effects, superimposing Marley's face over the door knocker and the scenes from his youth over a black curtain in Scrooge's bedroom."