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An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.
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00:00To save ourselves from Satan's power when we were gone astray
00:30The place, London.
00:57The time, 1843, the season that of jollity, of festivity and charity, holly and berries and goodwill to all men, with perhaps one exception.
01:09And it is with this exception that we are concerned in our story.
01:14The exception is Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:32A merry Christmas, Uncle. God save you.
01:39Humbug.
01:41Christmas? A humbug, Uncle? You don't mean that, I'm sure.
01:45Oh, but I do. Merry Christmas? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
01:50Well, come then, what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.
01:54Bah! Humbug.
01:57Don't be cross, Uncle.
01:59What else can I be? Out upon a merry Christmas. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes back with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
02:17Uncle! Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.
02:23Don't be angry, Uncle. Come, dine with us tomorrow.
02:27Never. No, good afternoon.
02:30I'm sorry with all my heart to find you so resolute, but I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So, a merry Christmas, Uncle, and a Happy New Year.
02:39Good afternoon.
02:41And a merry Christmas, Mr. Cratchit.
02:43Merry Christmas, sir.
02:44Good afternoon!
02:49Scrooge and Marley's, I believe. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
02:53Mr. Marley has died seven years ago this very night.
02:58At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
03:06But are there no prisons?
03:08Plenty of prisons.
03:10And then the treadmill and the poor law are the union workhouses, they in full vigour then, hm?
03:16Both very busy.
03:17Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.
03:23I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
03:28Yes, I know. You'll tell me that many can't go there and many would rather die.
03:32Well, if they'd better do that, then decrease the surplus population.
03:38Good afternoon, gentlemen.
03:40You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose, hm?
03:50If quite convenient, sir.
03:52It's not convenient and it's not fair.
03:55If I was to stop you half a crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound, hm?
04:01And yet you don't think me ill-used when I pay a day's wages for no work?
04:07It's only once a year, sir.
04:10Well, that's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
04:14You'll be here all the earlier the next morning.
04:21Even the blind man's dog knew old Scrooge and avoided him.
04:25Scrooge kept all humanity at a distance and liked it that way.
04:29Chica! Chica Marley!
04:44Oh!
04:46Oh!
04:48Hum-hum humbug.
05:00Humbug.
05:01Humbug.
05:16What do you want with me?
05:40Much.
05:42You don't believe in me.
05:45I don't, because you may be an undigested bit of beef, a fragment of an underdone potato.
05:53There's more of gravy than of grave about you.
06:04I wear the chain I forged in life.
06:09I made it, link by link and yard by yard.
06:13I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will, I wore it.
06:23Now, now, you were always a good man of business, Jacob.
06:27Business!
06:30Mankind was my business.
06:34Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed star which led the wise men to a poor abode?
06:49Hear me.
06:51I will, I will.
06:53I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance of escaping my fate, Ebenezer.
07:04You will be haunted by three spirits.
07:10Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls one.
07:16Expect the second on the next night at the same hour.
07:21The third upon the next night, when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate.
07:33The air was filled with moaning phantoms.
07:36Their misery was plainly that they had lost the power to interfere for good in human matters.
07:42Scrooge awoke to the chimes of a neighboring clock.
07:56His room was flooded with light, and a hand opened the curtains of his bed.
08:04Are you, are you the spirit, sir, who, who, who, who's coming was foretold to me?
08:10I am.
08:12Who, who and what are you?
08:14I am the ghost of Christmas past.
08:17L-long past?
08:19No, your past.
08:22W-what brings you here?
08:25Your welfare.
08:27Rise and walk with me.
08:31Good heavens, I was a boy here.
08:40Your lip is trembling.
08:42What?
08:43And what is that upon your cheek?
08:46Nothing, nothing.
08:49Nothing.
08:50These are but shadows of the things that have been.
08:54They have no consciousness of us.
08:58The school is not quite deserted.
09:00A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
09:13Poor boy.
09:14Let us see another Christmas.
09:23Do you know this place?
09:24I know it.
09:25I, I, I, I was apprenticed here.
09:29Oh, I, it's old Fezziwig.
09:33It is Fezziwig alive again.
09:35It is Fezziwig.
09:36Mm, mm, mm.
09:37He, he, he, he, he.
09:38Ha, ha, ha, ha.
09:40He, ho, me boys.
09:41No more work tonight.
09:43Christmas Eve, Dick.
09:44Christmas Ebenezer.
09:46Clear the way, me lad.
09:47Shut up, Ebenezer.
09:49Merry Christmas to you.
09:51He, ho, me lad.
09:53Ha, ha.
09:54He was very much attached to me.
10:03Ha, ha, ha, ha.
10:05Welcome, welcome, everybody.
10:09Merry Christmas to you all.
10:12A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
10:27What, small?
10:29Why is it not?
10:30He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money.
10:34Three or four, perhaps.
10:35But it isn't that.
10:36Spirit, he had the power.
10:37He had the power to render us happy or unhappy.
10:40To make our service light of burdensome, of pleasure or of toil.
10:48My time grows short.
10:50Quick.
10:53You are changed.
10:56You fear the world too much.
10:59There is nothing as hard as poverty, so I pursue wealth.
11:04I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one
11:09until the master passion, gain, engrosses you.
11:15Our contract is an old one.
11:20I can release you.
11:21Have I ever sought release?
11:24In words?
11:26No, never.
11:27In what then?
11:29In a changed nature.
11:30In an altered spirit.
11:35May you be happy in the life you have chosen.
11:40Oh, spirit.
11:42Why would you delight to torture me?
11:44I told you these were shadows of the things that have been.
11:49That they are what they are.
11:52Do not blame me.
11:54Take me back.
11:56Haunt me no longer.
11:58Enter, Ebenezer Scrooge.
12:14Come in and know me better, man.
12:21I am the ghost of Christmas present.
12:25You have never seen the like of me before.
12:28Spirit, conduct me where you will.
12:37If you have ought to teach me, well, let me profit by it.
12:42Touch my robe.
12:49As they walked, the spirit shed from his torch a few drops of good cheer on the passers-by.
12:55They stopped to bless the humble dwelling of the Cratchit family.
13:04And how did little Tim behave?
13:06As good as gold.
13:08He told me coming home.
13:10That he hoped the people saw him in the church.
13:12Because he was a cripple.
13:14And it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day.
13:17Come on, Timmy.
13:17Who made lame beggars walk and blind men see?
13:24A merry Christmas to us all, my dears.
13:44God bless us.
13:45God bless us, everyone.
13:47God bless us.
13:49God bless us, everyone.
13:51God bless us.
13:52Spirit, tell me, tell me if tiny Tim will live.
13:59I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner
14:04and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
14:09No, no.
14:10If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.
14:17No.
14:17What then?
14:21If he be like to die, he had better do it.
14:24I don't.
14:25And decrease the surplus population.
14:28Oh, God.
14:31To hear the insect on the leaf,
14:35pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.
14:43What place is this?
14:44A place where miners live, who labor in the bowels of the earth.
14:50But they know me.
14:52See?
14:52God bless you, very gentlemen.
14:57Let nothing you dismay.
15:01Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas day.
15:08And to save us all from Satan's power is born on Christmas day.
15:13Oh, God bless you, Mary.
15:16Oh, God bless you, Mary.
15:20Oh, God bless you, Mary.
15:30God rest it, merry, gentlemen
15:35Let nothing be used in life
15:38My angel was born on Christmas night
15:45To save my soul from Satan's power
15:49When we have gone astride
16:00Uncle Scrooge
16:04He's given us plenty of merriment, I'm sure
16:07And it would be ungrateful not to drink his health
16:10And I say, Uncle Scrooge
16:13Uncle Scrooge
16:14A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man
16:18Whatever he is
16:19He wouldn't take it from me, but may he have it nevertheless
16:22My life upon this globe is very brief
16:28It ends tonight, at midnight
16:32Forgive me, but I see something strange
16:37Look here, look, look, down here
16:42Spirit, are they yours?
16:48They are man's, and they cling to me
16:52This boy is ignorance
16:56This girl is want
16:59Beware them both
17:01But most of all, beware this boy
17:04Have they no refuge?
17:07No, no resource?
17:09Are there no prisons?
17:11Are there no workhouses?
17:13I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come
17:30You are about to show me shadows of things that have not happened
17:36But will happen in the time before us
17:40Is that so, spirit?
17:46Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen
17:51But as I know your purpose is to do me good
17:55Lead on
17:57Lead on, spirit
18:00Old Scratch has got his own at last, I hear
18:08Why, what was the matter with him?
18:10God knows
18:11It's likely to be a very cheap funeral
18:14I don't mind going if a lunch is provided
18:16But I must be fed
18:18Come into the parlour
18:39Come into the parlour
18:40Come into the parlour
18:41Open that bundle, old Joe
18:44What have you got there?
18:47But there isn't anything there for us
18:49These blankets
18:52Bed curtains
18:55You don't mean to say you took them down rings at all
18:59With him lying there
19:01Yes, I do
19:02If he wanted to keep them after he was dead
19:08Why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?
19:12It's a judgement on him
19:13Spirit, I see
19:19Yes, I do, I do see
19:21Oh, God merciful heaven
19:24What is this?
19:29Spirit, this is a fearful place
19:31In leaving it, I'll not leave its lesson
19:34Let us go
19:36I understand you
19:39And I would do it if I could
19:42But I have not the power
19:44Spirit, I have not the power
19:46Let me see some tenderness connected with the death
19:54My little, little child
19:58My little child
20:00My little child
20:01Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point
20:10Answer me one question
20:12Are these the shadows of the things that will be
20:16Or are they shadows of the things that may be
20:20Only
20:21Am I the man who lay upon the bed?
20:30No, spirit
20:31No, no, no
20:34Spirit, I am not the man I was
20:37Good spirit
20:40Assure me that I may yet change these shadows you have shown me by an altered life
20:49I will not shut out the lessons that they teach
20:54They're not torn down
21:04Look, rings and all
21:06Yes
21:09I will live in the past, the present and the future
21:11Oh, Jacob Marley
21:13Heaven and the Christmas time be praised for this
21:18I just don't know what to do
21:23I don't know what day of the month it is
21:30I don't know how long I've been among the spirits
21:33I don't know anything
21:35Hello, hello
21:42What's today?
21:45Hi
21:46An intelligent boy
21:48What a remarkable boy
21:50What's today, my fine young fellow?
21:54Today?
21:55Christmas Day
21:56It's Christmas Day
21:58It's Christmas Day
22:00And I haven't missed it
22:02The spirits have done it all in one night
22:05They can do anything they like, of course they can
22:16You know, I scarcely ever looked at it before
22:25It's a wonderful knocker
22:28I'll send it to Bob Cratchit
22:33And he shan't know who sends it
22:36My dear sir
22:41How do you do?
22:43Merry Christmas to you, sir
22:45Mr. Scrooge
22:47Yes
22:47Well, allow me to ask your pardon
22:50Will you come and see me?
22:55I will
22:56I will
22:57Thank you
22:58Bless you
23:01Is your master at home?
23:04Yes, sir
23:05He's in the dining room along with Mistress
23:07Thank you
23:08I'll just go in myself
23:11Fred
23:14Well, bless my soul
23:17Come in, uncle
23:18Come in, uncle
23:20Hello
23:25And what do you mean by coming here at this time of day?
23:31I am very sorry, sir
23:33It's only once a year, sir
23:35It shall not be repeated
23:36I was making rather merry yesterday, sir
23:39Now, I'll tell you what, my friend
23:42I am not going to stand for this sort of thing any longer
23:46And therefore
23:47Therefore
23:49I am about to raise your salary
23:53A very Christmas, Bob
23:55A very Christmas
23:56I will raise your salary, Bob
23:59And endeavour to assist your struggling family
24:01Mm-hmm, mm-hmm
24:02And we'll discuss your affairs this very afternoon, Bob
24:05Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo
24:06Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
24:07Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
24:09Scrooge was better than his word
24:11He did all he had promised and more
24:13And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
24:17It was said thereafter that Ebenezer Scrooge knew how to keep Christmas well
24:23If any man alive possessed that knowledge
24:26Now to the Lord's sweet praise, it's all you live in this place
24:37And in true love and brotherhood, each other now impressed
24:42It's only time of Christmas for love and scrafted grace
24:48So the children's love for joy, love and scrafted grace
24:53The children's love for hope and scrafted grace
24:57Thank you
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