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00:00:00Hello, I'm Patrick McNee. The holiday season is my favorite time of year. Families get together,
00:00:18they come from all parts of the continent. People really seem to enter into the spirit of things.
00:00:23A tradition in our family for many Christmases has been to watch the movie Scrooge. It was taken from
00:00:30Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, which was written in 1843. There have been several versions
00:00:36of this film, but my favorite is George Minters. It was made in 1951. It starred Alastair Simm.
00:00:43It really seemed to capture the true essence of the Dickens' novel. After all, A Christmas Carol
00:00:50is a story of redemption. Dickens himself called it a sentimental romance. It just seemed to
00:00:58capture the true holiday spirit so well. Why don't you and your families join me in watching
00:01:06this Christmas classic, Scrooge.
00:01:20And many other stars . . . . . I have a special Gonni-Builder
00:01:28movie Christmas
00:01:31Oh, God, heaven angels sing,
00:01:49Lord, it's all a new one king.
00:01:53Peace, honor, and mercy,
00:01:56Come and see the dragon's eyes.
00:02:01Joyful in each of the eyes,
00:02:05Join the triumph of the skies.
00:02:09Will the angelic voice proclaim,
00:02:13Lighting voice and the air.
00:02:17For the heaven angels sing,
00:02:21Glory, Lord, you are the one king.
00:02:25Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
00:02:30This must be distinctly understood,
00:02:33Or nothing wonderful can come of the story I'm going to relate.
00:02:36The register of his burial was signed by Scrooge.
00:02:42old marley was as dead as a doornail this must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can
00:02:50come of the story i'm going to relate the register of his burial was signed by scrooge and scrooge's
00:02:56name was good on the london exchange for anything he chose to put his hand to
00:02:59ah mr scrooge your servant sir are you off home to keep christmas i am not in a habit of keeping
00:03:06christmas sir then why are you leaving so early because sir christmas is a habit of keeping men
00:03:11from doing business come it's the nature of things that ants coil and grasshoppers sing and play
00:03:15mr scrooge an ant is what it is and a grasshopper is what it is and christmas sir is a humbug good day
00:03:31mr scrooge sir who are you samuel wilkins sir oh yes you owe me a little matter of 20 odd pounds i
00:03:38believe well if you want to pay it come to my place of business i don't conduct my affairs in
00:03:43the teeth of inclement weather i can't pay you sir i'm not surprised not unless you give me more time
00:03:49did i ask you for more time to lend you the money oh no sir why should you ask me for more time to
00:03:53pay it back i can't take my wife to a debtor's prison then leave it behind why should she go to a debtor's
00:03:58prison anyway she didn't bother the 20 pounds you did what has your wife got to do with it for that
00:04:03matter what have i got to do with it good afternoon mr scrooge it's christmas christmas has even less to do
00:04:07with it my dear sir than your wife has or i have you'd still owe me 20 pounds if you're not in the
00:04:11position to repay for as the middle of a heat wave an august bank holiday good afternoon
00:04:29we offer you
00:04:37well have i the pleasure of addressing mr scrooge or mr marley mr marley has been dead these seven
00:04:56years in fact he died seven years ago this very day well we have no doubt that his generosity is
00:05:02well represented by his surviving partner at this festive season of the year mr scrooge it is more
00:05:09than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute are
00:05:16there no prisons plenty of prisons and the union workhouses are they still in operation they are i
00:05:23wish i could say they were not and the treadmill and the poor law they're still in full vigor i presume
00:05:28both very busy sir oh from what you said at first i was afraid that something had happened to stop them
00:05:33in their useful course i'm very glad to hear it i don't think you quite understand us sir a few of us
00:05:39are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth why because it is
00:05:45at christmas time that want is most keenly felt an abundance rejoices what can i put you down for
00:05:52oh nothing you wish to be anonymous i wish to be left alone since you ask me what i wish sir that is my
00:06:01answer i help to support the establishments i have mentioned those who are badly off must go there
00:06:07many can't go there and some would rather die if they would rather die they'd better do it and decrease
00:06:14the surplus population besides it's not my business isn't it sir no it is enough for a man to understand his
00:06:22own business without interfering with other people's mine occupies me constantly good afternoon
00:06:27gentlemen
00:06:35who's that your nephew uncle it's you is it well what do you want neither to borrow money or beg a
00:06:43mortgage uncle only to wish you a merry christmas keep christmas in your own way and leave me to keep
00:06:47it in mind but you don't keep it then let me leave it alone then much good may do you to keep it
00:06:52much good it has ever done you certainly done me no harm no your wayward nature has done that
00:06:58and your marriage my marriage was the making of me the ruin of you you mean why don't you come and
00:07:03see for yourself if you won't take my word for it come and dine with us tomorrow no thank you but why
00:07:09why why why did you marry against my wishes because i fell in love you fell in love with a woman as
00:07:17penniless as yourself oh good evening we've never had any quarrel that i've ever been party to i asked
00:07:22nothing of you i came here in the spirit of right goodwill and i won't let you dampen it so a merry
00:07:26christmas to you anyway uncle good evening and a happy new year good evening
00:07:38how is mrs cratchit and all the small assorted cratchits very well sir thank you all champing
00:07:43at the bit for christmas to begin oh yes all very eager and the little lame boy which one is he
00:07:49oh tim sir that's right how is he oh we're in high hopes he's getting better good a merry christmas to
00:07:57you thank you sir and a merry christmas to you sir i'm sure thank you
00:08:19so
00:08:27so
00:08:29so
00:08:33so
00:08:39so
00:08:43Come along, Tim, my dear. I've got the goose.
00:08:51Did you have a lovely time with these all the wonderful things?
00:08:54Yes, thank you, Mama.
00:08:55Did you get a big goose?
00:08:57Yes, a big goose.
00:08:58Yes, a big goose.
00:08:59Yes, a big goose.
00:09:00Yes, a big goose.
00:09:01Yes, a big goose.
00:09:02Yes, sir.
00:09:03Yes, sir.
00:09:04Yes, sir.
00:09:05Yes, sir.
00:09:06Yes, sir.
00:09:07Yes, sir.
00:09:08Yes, sir.
00:09:09Yes, sir.
00:09:10Yes, sir.
00:09:11Yes, sir.
00:09:12Yes, sir, yes.
00:09:13Yes, sir.
00:09:14Thank you, Mama.
00:09:15Did you get a big goose?
00:09:16Yes, sir.
00:09:17The biggest goose you ever did see.
00:09:18As big as you, and as fat as a bean roll.
00:09:20Wait till your father sees something.
00:09:21His eyes will pop right out of his head.
00:09:22He'll forget all about oracle, old Mr. Scrooge.
00:09:24You're not feeling too tired, are you, dear?
00:09:28Not a bit, Mama.
00:09:29Your father was sure he'd carry you home on his shoulder.
00:09:32Yes, I love having a ride on his shoulder.
00:09:35Thank you, sir.
00:09:36You'll keep him working in that cold little room just as late as he could possibly
00:09:39Christmas Eve all over, Christmas Eve all over.
00:10:09You'll want the whole day off tomorrow, I suppose.
00:10:15If quite convenient, sir.
00:10:17Not convenient.
00:10:19And it's not fair.
00:10:21If I stopped your half a crown for it, you'd think yourself overused, wouldn't you, hm?
00:10:25But you don't think me overused if I pay a day's wages for no work, do you, hm?
00:10:29It is only once a year, sir.
00:10:31That's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
00:10:34Yes, sir. I'm sure I'm very sorry, sir,
00:10:36to cause you such an inconvenience.
00:10:38It's the family more than me, sir.
00:10:39They've put their hearts into Christmas, as it were, sir.
00:10:41Yes, and put their hands into my pockets, as it were, sir.
00:10:44I suppose you'd better have the whole day,
00:10:46but be back all the earlier next morning.
00:10:48I will indeed, sir. Thank you, sir.
00:10:50It's more than generous of you, sir.
00:10:52Yes, I know it is. You don't have to tell me.
00:10:54Merry Christmas, sir.
00:10:56Merry Christmas, sir.
00:10:58You, a clerk, on 15 shillings a week,
00:11:00with a wife and a family.
00:11:02You, a clerk, on 15 shillings a week,
00:11:04talking about a Merry Christmas.
00:11:06I'll retire to Bedlam.
00:11:34Waiter.
00:11:36Yes.
00:11:38More bread.
00:11:40Take any extra, sir.
00:11:46No more bread.
00:11:47No, sir.
00:12:04Nope, Hankartz.
00:12:05No, sir.
00:12:06No, sir.
00:12:11Scoju!
00:12:17Jacob?
00:12:26Oh, man.
00:12:29Oh, my God.
00:12:59Oh, my God.
00:13:29Oh, my God.
00:13:59Scrooge.
00:14:12Oh, my God.
00:14:42Oh, my God.
00:15:12Oh, my God.
00:15:42Oh, my God.
00:15:44Oh, my God.
00:15:46Oh, my God.
00:15:50Who are you?
00:15:51Ask me who I was.
00:15:53All right, all right.
00:15:54Who were you then?
00:15:56In life, I was your partner.
00:16:05Jacob Martin.
00:16:07Oh.
00:16:08What do you want with me?
00:16:21What do you want with me?
00:16:25Can you sit down?
00:16:26Can you sit down?
00:16:27I can.
00:16:28Well, do it then.
00:16:30You don't believe in me?
00:16:43I don't.
00:16:45Why do you doubt your senses?
00:16:49Because a little thing affects them.
00:16:50Because a little thing affects them.
00:16:52A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheat.
00:16:56You, you might be an undigested bit of beef.
00:17:00A piece of cheese.
00:17:02A fragment of an underdone potato.
00:17:05There's more of gravy than of grave in you.
00:17:09Whatever you are.
00:17:11Do you see that toothpick?
00:17:18I do.
00:17:21You're not looking at it.
00:17:26But I see it, notwithstanding.
00:17:31Oh.
00:17:32Well, then, I'm just going to swallow this and I'll be tortured for the rest of my life by a legion of hobgoblins.
00:17:41All of my own creation.
00:17:43It's all humbug, I tell you.
00:17:53Man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me or not?
00:17:57Yes, I do, I do, I do, I do.
00:17:59I must.
00:18:01But why do you walk the earth?
00:18:03And why do you come to me?
00:18:05It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men.
00:18:10If it goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
00:18:14But it is doomed to wander through the world.
00:18:21And witness what it cannot share but might have shared.
00:18:26And turn to happiness.
00:18:29Why do you let out?
00:18:31I wear the chain I forged in life.
00:18:34I made it link by link and yard by yard.
00:18:38I girded it on of my own free will and of my own free will.
00:18:43I wore it.
00:18:47You have my sympathy.
00:18:49Ah.
00:18:50You do not know the weight and length of strong chain you bear yourself.
00:18:56It was full as heavy and as long as this seven Christmas eves ago.
00:19:02And you have labored on it since, sir.
00:19:05It is a wondrous chain.
00:19:08Mark me.
00:19:09In life my spirit never rode beyond the limits of our money-changing home.
00:19:15Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace.
00:19:19Incessant torture and remorse.
00:19:23But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob.
00:19:27Business.
00:19:28Business.
00:19:29Mankind was my business.
00:19:32Their common welfare was my business.
00:19:35And it is at this time of the rolling year I suffer most.
00:19:40Hear me.
00:19:41My time is nearly gone.
00:19:43I come tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.
00:19:49A chance and hope of my procuring Ebenezer.
00:19:53Thank you, Jacob.
00:19:55You were always a good friend of mine.
00:19:58You will be visited by free spirits.
00:20:02What?
00:20:03Was that the chance of hope that you mentioned, Jacob?
00:20:08It was.
00:20:09Well, in that case, never mind.
00:20:12I think I'd rather not.
00:20:15Without their visits you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.
00:20:20It spakes the first when the bell tolls one.
00:20:27Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:20:32Look to see me no more.
00:20:42But look here that you may remember for your own sake...
00:20:47what has passed between us.
00:20:58Why do they lament?
00:21:01They seek to interfere for good in human manner.
00:21:08And have lost their power forever.
00:21:17Would you, again, you're Whewwine-wa Half St các?
00:21:18There are no facts that our lord получished.
00:21:19Who's gonna aim for over her husband?
00:21:20Over the years since we started to stop shooting it up in the US.
00:21:23Hello!
00:21:24Hello.
00:21:25Hello."
00:21:26He's speaking to you and me.
00:21:34This is for fabulous.
00:21:41How awesome about you?
00:21:42And to me?
00:21:43Come on.
00:22:13Come on.
00:22:43Come on.
00:22:53Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
00:22:56I am.
00:23:00Who and what are you?
00:23:03I am the ghost of Christmas past.
00:23:06Long past?
00:23:08No, your past.
00:23:12What is your business here with me?
00:23:16Your welfare.
00:23:19My welfare?
00:23:22Your inclination, then.
00:23:25Take heed, rise and walk with me.
00:23:31Through the window.
00:23:44Are you afraid?
00:23:46I...
00:23:49That I...
00:23:50I am immortal and liable to fall.
00:23:54Bear but a touch of my hand and you shall be upheld in more than this.
00:24:16Good heavens.
00:24:21You know this place.
00:24:23Know it.
00:24:24I was a boy here.
00:24:26They are the shades of the things that have been.
00:24:29They do not know we are here.
00:24:31Look.
00:24:32There's my old school.
00:24:34How lonely and deserted it looks.
00:24:37Not quite deserted.
00:24:39A solitary boy yourself, Ebenezer, forgotten by his friends, is left there still.
00:24:44I knew.
00:24:47I knew.
00:24:50What?
00:24:51I knew.
00:24:52What?
00:24:53I knew.
00:24:54How many?
00:24:55How many?
00:24:56How many are we?
00:24:57That's the story?
00:24:58I know.
00:24:59I know.
00:25:00I have a piece.
00:25:01How many were you?
00:25:02I ahorita.
00:25:03He has a piece of work.
00:25:04I knew.
00:25:05Here's my wife.
00:25:06I knew.
00:25:07I knew.
00:25:08I knew.
00:25:09I knew.
00:25:10I knew.
00:25:11What?
00:25:12You've got a pair, Grace.
00:25:14I can't do it.
00:25:24Ebenezer.
00:25:26The fan!
00:25:35Oh, dear brother, I have come to bring you home.
00:25:39Home, home, home.
00:25:40Yes, home for good Lord. Home for ever and ever.
00:25:45Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home is like heaven.
00:25:50For you perhaps, but not for me.
00:25:53He doesn't know me nor even what I look like.
00:25:57The same as I hardly know you now that you're quite a woman.
00:26:01Mama must have looked as you look now just before she died.
00:26:06Perhaps that is what has changed his mind towards you.
00:26:10He spoke to me so gently one night when I was going to bed
00:26:13that I wasn't afraid to ask him just once more if you might come home.
00:26:17And he said, yes, you should, and sent me in the carriage to bring you.
00:26:20And you're never to come back here anymore.
00:26:23And you're never to be lonely again.
00:26:25Never to be lonely again?
00:26:27Never as long as I live.
00:26:30Then you must live forever, Fan.
00:26:33Nobody else ever cared for me. Nobody else ever will.
00:26:37You must live forever, Fan.
00:26:39Oh, dear brother, what nonsense.
00:26:41Everyone loves you very much.
00:26:43You must forgive, Papa, and forget the past.
00:26:46For our dearest mother's sake.
00:26:48Oh, Fan.
00:26:50Fan.
00:26:52Bring down Master Scrooge's box.
00:26:56Our sister was always a delicate creature whom a breath might have withered,
00:27:04but she had a large heart.
00:27:06She had.
00:27:07She died a married woman and had, I think, children.
00:27:11One child.
00:27:12True, your nephew.
00:27:14She died giving him life.
00:27:17As your mother died giving you life, for which your father never forgave you,
00:27:22as if you were to blame.
00:27:48You recall this, no doubt.
00:27:50Recall it?
00:27:51Why, bless my son.
00:27:53It's old Fezenberg's.
00:28:01I was apprenticed here.
00:28:09Look, there's old Fezenberg and Mrs. Fezenberg.
00:28:11Top couple.
00:28:12Oh, was there ever a kinder man.
00:28:22And yet, what does this party cost him in your mortal money?
00:28:25Three or four pounds at most.
00:28:27Is that so much that he deserves your praise?
00:28:29Oh, but it's not that.
00:28:31The happiness he gave to us, his clerks and apprentices,
00:28:33and everybody who knew him,
00:28:34was as great as if it had, as if it had cost a fortune.
00:28:37What's the matter?
00:28:40Nothing.
00:28:41Something, I think.
00:28:42No, no, no, no.
00:28:44Just that I'd like to have a word with my own clerk,
00:28:46Bob Cratchit, just now.
00:28:48That's all.
00:28:51Turn and see yourself in love, Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:28:56It's only a shilling ring, Alice, but one day it'll be a gold one.
00:28:59Oh, when I'm rich enough.
00:29:00Oh, it's a beautiful ring.
00:29:02Oh, but I mustn't accept it.
00:29:04Why not?
00:29:05Because it's not good enough for you.
00:29:07Oh, no, no.
00:29:08Because I'm not rich enough for you.
00:29:10Oh, foolish of you.
00:29:11Of course not.
00:29:14But you're still so young, you may have a change of heart one day.
00:29:17Oh, dearest Alice, if ever I have a change of heart towards you,
00:29:21it'll be because my heart has ceased to beat.
00:29:25And it makes no difference that I'm poor.
00:29:27I love you because you're poor, not proud and foolish.
00:29:32Will you always feel like that?
00:29:36As long as I live.
00:29:37Longer.
00:29:38Forever and ever.
00:29:41Then I accept your ring.
00:29:45Alice.
00:29:50Ebenezer.
00:29:51God bless you, Alice.
00:29:54From now to eternity, we two are as one.
00:30:04I've seen enough.
00:30:05Yet more wasteful...
00:30:07I won't look.
00:30:08...you shall.
00:30:09Now see yourself in business, Ebenezer.
00:30:12Come, come, Mr. Fezziwig.
00:30:13We're good friends, I think.
00:30:14Besides good men of business, we're men of vision and progress.
00:30:18Why don't you sell out while the going's good?
00:30:20You'll never get a better offer.
00:30:21Which is the aid of the machine and the factory and the vested interests.
00:30:25We small traders are old history, Mr. Fezziwig.
00:30:28Do-do's.
00:30:29Yes, I dare say we are.
00:30:31And the offer is a very large one, I have to admit.
00:30:34But it's not just for money alone that one spends a lifetime building up a business, Mr. Jorky.
00:30:39Well, if it isn't, I'd like you to tell him what you do spend a lifetime building up a business for.
00:30:45It's to preserve a way of life that one knew and loved.
00:30:49No, I can't see my way to selling out to the new vested interests, Mr. Jorky.
00:30:54I'll have to be loyal to the old ways and die out with them if needs must.
00:30:59Well, you know what they say about time and tide, Mr. Fezziwig.
00:31:03They wait for no one.
00:31:05There's more in life than money, sir.
00:31:08Oh, excuse me, Mr. Fezziwig, sir.
00:31:11Yes, yes, my boy.
00:31:12The foreman would appreciate a word with you if you can spare the time, sir.
00:31:15Yes, yes, of course.
00:31:17Excuse me a moment.
00:31:24You can't teach an old dog new tricks, can you, Mr. Scrooge?
00:31:27Nor teach the leopard to change its spots.
00:31:30Well, I... I think I know what Mr. Fezziwig means, though, sir.
00:31:34Oh, so you hate progress and money too, do you?
00:31:37Oh, no, I don't hate them, sir.
00:31:39But, well, perhaps the machines aren't such a good thing for mankind after all.
00:31:44Sage and onions, my dear fellow.
00:31:45Ha!
00:31:46Gammon and spinach.
00:31:47Why, suppose I told you you could get twice the salary old Fezziwig can afford to pay you,
00:31:52and advancement he can afford to offer you as a clerk in a new company.
00:31:57What would you say to that, eh?
00:31:59Well, I'd still say money wasn't everything, sir.
00:32:02Well, if it ain't, I don't know what it is.
00:32:05Come and see me someday anyway, young fellow.
00:32:08You're smart and you're no fool.
00:32:11That's the kind of buck they're looking for these days.
00:32:14No, spirit, not here.
00:32:26Yes, here.
00:32:31Then, it's me, your brother.
00:32:36Do you know me?
00:32:42Ebeneez, I sent for you.
00:32:48Promise me.
00:32:54Promise you what, Fenn?
00:32:56I'll promise you anything, dearest.
00:32:58Only there isn't going to be any need.
00:33:02You're going to get well again, Fenn.
00:33:05No.
00:33:06You are.
00:33:07You are.
00:33:09Dear God, you must.
00:33:12Fenn, you can't die.
00:33:16Fenn, you mustn't die.
00:33:19You're going to get well again, Fenn.
00:33:21Fenn, you're going to get well again.
00:33:26Take care.
00:33:31Fenn, come backly.
00:33:32Fenn.
00:33:33You are.
00:33:34Thank you, Jessica.
00:33:35Our own family, Steve Harper.
00:33:37Of course two.
00:33:41A long time after our ministry,
00:33:42if they come in the laissez- WORK,
00:33:47to dedicate a new life or our communities,
00:33:49to get well.
00:33:50Time.
00:33:51That's enough!
00:33:52Gather now.
00:33:53O verdure.
00:33:54Well, you'll tell me now.
00:33:55Oh, how could you have brought me here?
00:34:00Have you no mercy, no pity?
00:34:02Ebenezer.
00:34:04Brother.
00:34:06Ebenezer.
00:34:09Promise me you'll take care of my boy.
00:34:16Promise me you'll take care of my...
00:34:25You heard her.
00:34:42Forgive me, Fenn.
00:34:44Forgive me.
00:34:46Forgive me, Fenn.
00:34:49Forgive me, Fenn.
00:34:55Well, there you are, me Buck. That's where you start.
00:35:13And you can work your way on up as high as the dome of St Paul's Cathedral if you have a mind to do so.
00:35:17Control the cash box and you control the world.
00:35:22By the way, how did old Fezziwig take it when you said you were leaving him?
00:35:26You wish me luck, sir.
00:35:28No hard feelings, eh? Starting with a clean slate. Good.
00:35:32And now let me introduce you to your fellow clerk, Mr. Marley.
00:35:36Just a moment, please.
00:35:39Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge, the new clerk.
00:35:42Mr. Jacob Marley, our wizard of the accounts.
00:35:45Your servant, Mr. Marley.
00:35:46Your servant, Mr. Scrooge.
00:35:48I'm sure you two gentlemen will get along famously.
00:35:50I'm sure we shall, Mr. Jorkins.
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:53Well, I'll leave you to it.
00:35:59The place, no doubt, seems new and strange to you.
00:36:01Somewhat.
00:36:03The world is on the verge of new and great changes, Mr. Scrooge.
00:36:06Some of them, if necessity, will be violent.
00:36:09Do you agree?
00:36:10Oh, I think the world's becoming a very hard and cruel place, Mr. Marley.
00:36:14One must steal oneself to survive it.
00:36:17Not be crushed under with the weak and the infirm.
00:36:20I think we have many things in common, Mr. Scrooge.
00:36:23I hope so, Mr. Marley.
00:36:50Oh, excuse me, Mr. Scrooge, sir.
00:36:51Yes?
00:36:52Pardon the liberty, but do you know if I'm to have kept on here, sir?
00:36:53What's your present salary?
00:36:54Five shillings a week, sir.
00:36:55You can stay for four shillings a week.
00:36:56Well, yes, sir.
00:36:57Thank you, sir.
00:36:58Isn't that old fuzzy wig?
00:36:59Yes, sir.
00:37:00Thank you, sir.
00:37:13Isn't that old Fezziwig?
00:37:43Alice.
00:37:45The same Alice you swore to love to all eternity, Ebenezer.
00:37:50She is not changed by the harshness of the world, but you are.
00:37:56Then you no longer love me.
00:38:00You no longer love me.
00:38:02When have I ever said that?
00:38:03In words, never.
00:38:05Well, in what then?
00:38:06In the way you have changed.
00:38:08But how have I changed towards you?
00:38:10By changing towards the world.
00:38:12But is it such a terrible thing for a man to struggle with something better than he is?
00:38:16Another idol has replaced me in your heart.
00:38:19A golden idol.
00:38:21It's singular.
00:38:22The world that can be so brutally cruel to the poor professes to condemn the pursuit of wealth in the same breath.
00:38:26You fear the world too much.
00:38:28With reason.
00:38:29But I am not changed towards you.
00:38:32Aren't you?
00:38:38Our promise is an old one.
00:38:40It was made when we were both poor and content to be so.
00:38:45If you had never made that promise, tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
00:38:53Of course I would.
00:38:54No.
00:38:57If you were free today, would you choose a dial-less girl with neither wealth nor social standing?
00:39:02You who now weigh everything by gain?
00:39:06It would bring you nothing but repentance and regret.
00:39:11That is why I released you.
00:39:14You know I am right then.
00:39:19I must bow to your conviction that you are.
00:39:24May you be happy in the life you have chosen.
00:39:28I shall be it.
00:39:32Goodbye.
00:39:33Goodbye.
00:39:53Show me no more.
00:39:54But I told you.
00:39:55These were but shadows of the things that have been.
00:39:59That they are what they are.
00:40:00Do not blame me.
00:40:01Bring me away.
00:40:02Very well.
00:40:03But we have not done yet, Ebenezer Scrooge.
00:40:07We do but turn another page.
00:40:09And as your business prospered, Ebenezer Scrooge, a golden idol took possession of your heart, as Alice said it would.
00:40:29May we hear those figures, Mr. Snedgrid, at your pleasure?
00:40:32Certainly, Mr. Groper.
00:40:33Well, gentlemen, after 17 years of existence, the Amalgamated Mercantile Society's books show the startling figures of a liability of 3,200 pounds, eight shillings and tenpence.
00:40:43And a total asset of 11 pounds, eight shillings and tenpence.
00:40:50But at least the tenpences cancel each other out.
00:40:53How much of this is the company's capital?
00:40:55All of it, Mr. Rosebud.
00:40:57In short, sir, you are not only a bankrupt, you are an embezzler of the company's funds.
00:41:03I will so beat my wife and skewer innocent babies when in my cups.
00:41:07Take a very cool attitude, if I may say so, sir.
00:41:10So do Mr. Scrooge and Mr. Marley.
00:41:12They're not facing prosecution for a capital offence.
00:41:14Oh, but gentlemen, it could have been any one of you.
00:41:17We're all cutthroats under this fancy linen, Mr. Snedrick.
00:41:20I must ask you to speak for yourself, Mr. Jorking.
00:41:23What would you gain to prosecute me?
00:41:25All you'll get out of it is about 11 pounds odd.
00:41:28And to pack me off to Botany Bay would be poor compensation for the panic that would arise among the shareholders.
00:41:34Panic, sir?
00:41:35Yes, panic.
00:41:36Would any of you gentlemen care to deny that if this juicy little scandal leaked out now,
00:41:41the annual shareholders' meeting would resemble an orchestra of scorched cats.
00:41:46Result?
00:41:47Bankruptcy all round.
00:41:49Strike that speech out of the minutes.
00:41:50Yes, sir.
00:41:51Mr. Jorking doesn't exaggerate the imprudence of allowing his misdemeanors to be made public.
00:41:58Are you in sympathy with Mr. Jorking by any chance, Mr. Scrooge?
00:42:01Not, I confess, with his methods.
00:42:03But Mr. Marley and I have a proposition to make to the representatives of the company,
00:42:07which might solve some of the difficulties to our general advantage.
00:42:11The devil you have?
00:42:12You want to watch these two fellows, you know.
00:42:14Late-skinned Jack catch alive and he'd never know they've done it.
00:42:17Can we hear the proposition?
00:42:19Shall I, Mr. Spokesman?
00:42:22Mr. Marley and myself are prepared to make good out of our own private resources,
00:42:29the sum of money appropriated by Mr. Jorking.
00:42:33Reprieved, reprieved!
00:42:36Curfew shall not ring tonight, Mr. Snedry.
00:42:38Order, order!
00:42:39In return, we wish to be allowed the option of buying up further shares in the company
00:42:45to a maximum of 51% of the total.
00:42:50In short, gentlemen,
00:42:51if you wish to save the fair name of the company by accepting their generous offer,
00:42:55they become the company.
00:42:57Never, never!
00:42:58Out of the question!
00:43:00Never!
00:43:01Out of the question!
00:43:02And also out of order, Mr. Scrooge!
00:43:15Out of order, Mr. Marley,
00:43:17I kiss the
00:43:40Pardon me, if you can find the grace, too.
00:43:43I just come from Mr. Marley's with a message for Mr. Scrooge.
00:43:47Can I give it to him?
00:43:49Well, please, your great kind self, dear.
00:43:51I'm to say that Mr. Marley ain't expected to live through the night
00:43:56and that if Mr. Scrooge wants to take his leave of him,
00:43:59he should nip along smartly or there won't be no Mr. Marley to take leave of,
00:44:04as we know the use of the word.
00:44:07He's breathing very queer.
00:44:10When he does breathe, it's all.
00:44:16Excuse me, Mr. Scrooge, sir.
00:44:18I'm busy.
00:44:18It's about Mr. Marley. He's dying, sir.
00:44:21Well, what can I do about it? If he's dying, he's dying.
00:44:23Well, the message was for you to go at once, sir.
00:44:26It is now quarter to five.
00:44:28The business of the office is not yet finished.
00:44:29I shall go when the office is closed.
00:44:31At seven o'clock.
00:44:32Yes.
00:44:38He'll come at seven.
00:44:40I'll try and get Mr. Marley to hold out till then, I'm sure.
00:44:45Much obliged.
00:44:47Good night to you.
00:44:52And a Merry Christmas, if it ain't how to keep him with the situation.
00:44:58The same to you.
00:44:59No.
00:45:23I hope you'll find Mr. Marley well, sir.
00:45:42Yes, you'd think that's highly unlikely.
00:45:44Yes, I suppose so, sir.
00:45:46It seems odd to think of the place without him, sir.
00:45:49Why should it be any more odd than it was with him?
00:45:52We've all got to die, Cratchit.
00:45:53I suppose you'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow, as usual.
00:45:58If quite convenient, sir.
00:46:01Every Christmas you say the same thing.
00:46:03And every Christmas it's just as inconvenient as it was the Christmas before.
00:46:07Good night.
00:46:08Good night, sir.
00:46:09Good night, sir.
00:46:09Good night.
00:46:29Good night.
00:46:30Who's that, the doctor?
00:46:39No, sir. The undertaker.
00:46:43You don't believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?
00:46:46Ours is a highly competitive profession, sir.
00:46:50Is it dead yet?
00:46:52I'll have another look if you like.
00:46:54No, don't bother.
00:46:55I'll see for myself.
00:47:00Oh, Jacob.
00:47:23Well, have they... have they seen to you properly?
00:47:26Last rites and all that, hmm?
00:47:30There's, uh, there's nothing I can do, hmm?
00:47:39Oh?
00:47:41What, particularly?
00:47:47Well, there's still time.
00:47:52Time?
00:47:54Time for what?
00:47:55We...
00:47:58We've been wrong.
00:48:01Huh?
00:48:02Wrong.
00:48:03Wrong?
00:48:05Oh.
00:48:07Well, we... we can't be right all the time.
00:48:10Nobody's perfect.
00:48:12We've been no worse than the next man.
00:48:15Oh, better if it comes to that.
00:48:17You mustn't reproach yourself, Jacob.
00:48:20We are wrong.
00:48:22What?
00:48:22Save...
00:48:27Save...
00:48:29Yourself.
00:48:30What?
00:48:31Save myself?
00:48:33Save myself from what?
00:48:36Hmm?
00:48:39Speak up.
00:48:40You say date?
00:48:51Yes.
00:48:55Just like you say it.
00:48:57You say date?
00:49:04Yes.
00:49:07Just like you say it.
00:49:10I always do.
00:49:27One shadow more.
00:49:29No.
00:49:30No more.
00:49:32I cannot bear it.
00:49:34Jacob Marley worked at your side for 18 years.
00:49:39He was the only friend you ever had.
00:49:42But what did you feel when you signed the register of his burial
00:49:46and took his money, his house,
00:49:48and his few mean sticks of furniture?
00:49:51Did you feel a little pity for him?
00:49:54Look at your face, Elisa.
00:49:57A face of a wrenching, grasping, scraping covetous old sinner.
00:50:03No.
00:50:04No.
00:50:05No.
00:50:06No.
00:50:07No.
00:50:08No.
00:50:09No.
00:50:10No.
00:50:11No.
00:50:12No.
00:50:13No.
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00:50:15No.
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00:50:33No.
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00:50:45No.
00:50:46No.
00:50:47No.
00:50:48No.
00:50:49No.
00:50:50No.
00:50:51Yes, I'm... I'm coming.
00:50:55Coming! Coming!
00:50:59I'm coming.
00:51:21Come in. Come in. Come in. Come in. And know me that a man. I am the spirit of Christmas present. Look upon me. You've never seen the life of me before. Have you? Never. And I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed. So? Is your heart still unmoved towards us then?
00:51:51I'm too old. I'm beyond hope. Go and redeem some younger, more promising creature and leave me to keep Christmas in my own way.
00:52:02Mortal, we spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole 365. So is it true of the child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men's hearts only one day of the year, but in all the days of the year.
00:52:18You have chosen not to seek him in your heart. Therefore you shall come with me and seek him in the hearts of men of good will. Come. Touch my robe.
00:52:30What place is this? A place where miners live who labor in the bowels of the earth. But they know me. Come.
00:52:52But they know me. Come.
00:52:54But they know me. Come.
00:52:57Welcome.
00:52:59Bye.
00:53:00Well.
00:53:02Bye.
00:53:03I have sent my hand after I've done my life into XII.
00:53:09Upload of the fire and fall of space.
00:53:12You have left to live alongside me.
00:53:13I have sent home a week and go.
00:53:17A priest up inела.
00:53:19Why, it's Cratchit. It's Mom, Cratchit.
00:53:40He's coming, Mother. Father's here with Tiny Tim.
00:53:43Tim, Arthur. You hide. I will tell him you've been held up and who knows when you'll be here.
00:53:48Yes, go and hide. Oh, goodness, where? Behind this gallery door, quickly, Mother.
00:54:08A merry Christmas.
00:54:11Why? Where's our Martha?
00:54:18Oh, she's not coming.
00:54:20Not coming? Not coming on Christmas Day?
00:54:23Yes, I am, Father.
00:54:26I can't bear to let them tease you.
00:54:28Why, bless your heart. It never would have been Christmas if they'd kept you late.
00:54:32Is the pudding still singing in the copper, Peter?
00:54:35Yes, come and hear it. You come too, Mary and Belinda.
00:54:39You come along as well, Martha. Come and hear the pudding singing in the copper.
00:54:42I'll come in a minute.
00:54:43All right.
00:54:44Sit you down before the fire and have a nice warm. The Lord bless you.
00:54:48We had such a deal of work to finish up last night, but I never did think I'd get away.
00:54:52We had to clear away this morning, and then I ran all the way so as to be here in time.
00:54:56How did little Tim behave in church?
00:54:58As good as gold and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much
00:55:03and thinks the strangest things you ever heard.
00:55:06He told me he wasn't going to feel shy if people looked at him because he was a cripple,
00:55:10as it might be pleasant to them, being in church, to remember upon Christmas Day
00:55:15who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
00:55:18He's growing strong and hearty, though, Martha, my dear. Isn't he, my love?
00:55:28Spirit, tell me will... will Tiny Tim live?
00:55:36I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner carefully preserved.
00:55:42If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, none other of my race shall find him there.
00:55:47Oh, no. No.
00:55:50Kind spirit, say that he will be spared.
00:55:55Why?
00:55:56If he'd be like to die, he'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.
00:56:07Well, my little cock sparrow, he has your own stool by the fire all ready for you.
00:56:13There's such a goose, Martha.
00:56:15I'm sure of it.
00:56:16And the pudding. Oh, the pudding.
00:56:19I shan't be easy till it's eaten.
00:56:21I confess I have my doubts about the quantity of flour.
00:56:24It'll be a perfect pudding, my love. A perfect pudding.
00:56:29Won't it, Martha, my dear? Ate him?
00:56:31It'll be the finest pudding in the whole of London this Christmas, and the goose will be the finest goose.
00:56:37And ours will be the finest Christmas.
00:56:42Here's the punch, all steaming hot.
00:56:44No, no, no, no, no.
00:56:46Take your turn, one and all, if you please.
00:56:48There's enough for one toast now and another after that.
00:56:51There, bravo. There's bounty for you.
00:56:54I declare I'd like to know how many families of our acquaintance could boast two rounds of the best gin punch.
00:56:59No, no, no, no.
00:57:01Loud. Everybody got his drink?
00:57:03Yes.
00:57:04Good. But before I give the toast, I have a piece of momentous information for all.
00:57:09And Master Peter in particular.
00:57:11Master Peter? Why, that's you, Peter. What is it, Father?
00:57:15I'm your tenant.
00:57:16Master Peter, now grown to full estate and dignity, a son of the house,
00:57:20and looking every inch the grand fellow he is in one of my own collars.
00:57:26I have waited for this great moment to advise him that I have my eye on a situation for him
00:57:31which will bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly.
00:57:36Fluffy, you'll be quite the independent gentleman now, Peter.
00:57:39What next, I wonder?
00:57:41Then a toast, my love, my dearies, to our merry Christmas. God bless us.
00:57:47God bless us.
00:57:48God bless us.
00:57:49God bless us, everyone.
00:57:55I give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast.
00:57:58Oh, look!
00:58:01I wish I had him here now. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast himself upon.
00:58:05My dear children, Christmas Day.
00:58:07It could only be on Christmas Day that I would drink the health of such a hard, stingy, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge.
00:58:13You know he is, Robert. Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow.
00:58:16My dear, Christmas Day.
00:58:22Now drink his health for your sake and the day's, not for his.
00:58:25Long life to him. A merry Christmas and a happy new year. He'll be very happy and very merry, no doubt.
00:58:31He said that Christmas was humbug and he believed it too.
00:58:44I told him so.
00:58:45Well, a merry Christmas and a happy new year to the poor old man. He wouldn't let me wish it to him personally, but here it is nevertheless. Uncle Scrooge.
00:58:54Well, I don't know that our drinking to him will do him much good.
00:58:57Nor do I. I hate him.
00:58:59Oh, I forbid it. I'm sorry for him. I couldn't feel angry with him if I tried.
00:59:03Who suffers worse from his humours? Himself, always.
00:59:06Look at the way he's taken it into his head to disown us without a shilling and won't even come to dinner with us.
00:59:10And what's the consequence? He's only cheated himself out of a highly indigestible dinner.
00:59:15It was a wonderful dinner.
00:59:17Yes, it was a wonderful dinner.
00:59:19Well, I'm very glad you think so, Miss, because I personally haven't very much faith in these newlywed housekeepers.
00:59:24Have you, Tupper?
00:59:26Alas, as a bachelor, I'm a wretched outcast with no right to express an opinion on such a tender and delicate subject.
00:59:33Have I? Dear, distant, unmovable Miss Flora.
00:59:38No, you really are quite incorrigible, Mr. Tupper. Quite beyond hope.
00:59:44I can't help.
01:00:02And have not charity, I am become a salding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
01:00:07And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
01:00:13and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing.
01:00:19Do you feel more rested now, my dear?
01:00:22I do, bless your dear, gentle heart.
01:00:27Alas, do you know me, darling?
01:00:30I never thought there was anyone like you left in the whole wide world.
01:00:35Cut me trough, rip me liver from telling a lie.
01:00:38This is the happiest Christmas I ever had.
01:00:41Alice.
01:00:42Alice.
01:00:43Alice.
01:00:44Alice.
01:00:45Are these people real or are the shadows?
01:00:47They're real.
01:00:48We're the shadows.
01:00:49Both of us.
01:00:50Did you not cut yourself off from your fellow beings when you lost the love of that gentle creature?
01:00:56Where are you taking me now?
01:00:57My time with you, Ebenezer, is almost done.
01:01:02Will you profit by what I have shown you of the good in most men's hearts?
01:01:17I don't know.
01:01:18How can I promise?
01:01:19If it's too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson.
01:01:25Are these yours?
01:01:38Oh, my spirit.
01:01:40Are these yours?
01:01:45те are men s.
01:01:49They cling to me for protection from their fetters.
01:01:51This boy is ignorance this girl is want
01:01:56Beware of them both but most of all beware of this boy
01:02:00But have they no refuge, no resource?
01:02:03Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
01:02:07Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
01:02:11Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
01:02:21I am in the presence of the spirit of Christmas yet to come.
01:02:42And you're going to show me shadows of things that have not yet happened but will happen.
01:02:48Spirit of the future, I fear you more than any other specter I've seen.
01:02:51But even in my fear, I must tell you, I am too old.
01:02:55I cannot change.
01:02:57It is not that I am impenitent, it is just that I...
01:03:03Oh, wouldn't it be better if I just went home to bed?
01:03:09No.
01:03:13Lead me then.
01:03:21He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings thou shalt trust.
01:03:23His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
01:03:25Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day.
01:03:27A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand.
01:03:31But it shall not come nigh thee.
01:03:33For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
01:03:37Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.
01:03:41I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
01:03:45Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge, even the Most High thy habitation.
01:03:49There shall no evil befall thee.
01:03:51Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
01:03:53He shall call upon me, and I will answer him.
01:03:55But it shall not come nigh thee.
01:03:57For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
01:03:59Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.
01:04:03I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
01:04:07Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge, even the Most High thy habitation.
01:04:13There shall no evil befall thee.
01:04:15Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
01:04:18He shall call upon me, and I will answer him.
01:04:21I will be with him in trouble.
01:04:23I will deliver him and honour him.
01:04:28Shall I stop reading?
01:04:29No, no.
01:04:30It's only the colour.
01:04:31It hurts my eyes.
01:04:35They're better now.
01:04:38It makes them weak by candlelight.
01:04:40And I wouldn't show your father weak eyes when he comes home for the world.
01:04:44It must be near his time.
01:04:46Past it, rather.
01:04:48But he seems to be walking a little slower than he used these last few evenings.
01:04:52Oh, I've known him walk with Tiny Tim on his shoulder very fast indeed.
01:04:56So have I.
01:04:57Often.
01:04:58But so have I.
01:04:59So have I.
01:05:00But then he was very light to carry, and his father loved him so that there was no trouble.
01:05:05No trouble.
01:05:06No trouble.
01:05:07No trouble.
01:05:20I'm a little late, my dear.
01:05:21Please forgive me.
01:05:22You must be cold and tired.
01:05:24Sit near the fire.
01:05:25No, no.
01:05:26I'm very content, my dear.
01:05:28Very content.
01:05:32I went to see the place where he will rest.
01:05:34It's sheltered by green trees, my dear, and very quiet and still.
01:05:40It was strange, but as I stood there, I felt his hand slip in mine as if he was standing beside me and comforting me.
01:05:46I felt very peaceful, my dear.
01:05:48He was telling me, you see, in his own little way, that he's happy.
01:05:53Truly happy now, and that we must cease to grieve for him and try to be happy too.
01:06:06Oh, Tim.
01:06:07My tiny Tim.
01:06:09Poor Robert, my lord.
01:06:11Poor Robert.
01:06:13Poor Robert.
01:06:44Hello, Joe.
01:06:46Huh?
01:06:47Oh, Joe.
01:06:48Hey.
01:06:49Well, come on.
01:06:50No, let the laundress go first.
01:06:52No, no, dearie.
01:06:53You was here first.
01:06:54After you, I'm sure.
01:06:58Oh, look, old Joe, here's a chance.
01:07:01If the charlady and the laundress and the undertaker haven't all met here at the same time without meaning.
01:07:06Well, you couldn't have met in a better place.
01:07:08Let's go into the parlor.
01:07:09You were made three a bit long ago, eh?
01:07:12And the other two aren't strangers, eh?
01:07:15Oh, wait a minute.
01:07:16Just like shut the door of the shop, eh?
01:07:20Just shut the door of the shop.
01:07:23Oh, it's creaks.
01:07:24There's not a rusted piece of metal in the face like its own hinges, and I'm sure there are no old bones here like mine.
01:07:31Well, we're all suitable to our call, isn't they?
01:07:35We're all well matched.
01:07:37Coming to the parlor, eh?
01:07:38Yeah.
01:07:39Coming to the parlor.
01:07:43Who goes first?
01:07:44What odds, now?
01:07:45We're all met at the once.
01:07:47Everyone's got a right to take care of themselves.
01:07:50He always did.
01:07:51Oh, that's true enough.
01:07:52No one more so.
01:07:53Why, then, don't stand staring as if you was afraid, woman.
01:07:56Who's the wiser?
01:07:57We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose.
01:08:00No, indeed.
01:08:01Oh, we hope not.
01:08:02Very well, then.
01:08:03Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these?
01:08:06Not a dead man, I suppose.
01:08:07No, indeed.
01:08:09If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, why wasn't he amiable in his lifetime?
01:08:13If he had been, he'd have had somebody with him when he was struck with death.
01:08:17He stood a lion gasping out his last there alone by himself.
01:08:20There never was a two-a-word spoke.
01:08:22There was a judgement on him.
01:08:23I wish it was a little heavier one, and it would have been if I could have laid my hands on anything else.
01:08:28We knew pretty well we was helping ourselves before we come here, I believe.
01:08:32It's no sin.
01:08:33Open the bundle, Jo.
01:08:34No, no, I'll go first.
01:08:36Just to show we all got trust in one another.
01:08:39It's very polite of you, I do grant, I'm sure.
01:08:42Watch.
01:08:44Fob.
01:08:45See you.
01:08:46Pencil case.
01:08:47Sleeve buttons.
01:08:48Broach.
01:08:49Yes.
01:08:50Eight shillings, this lot, and I wouldn't give you another sixpunch.
01:08:55Not if I was born for life and not doing it.
01:08:58Who's next?
01:09:01Always the lady, dear.
01:09:05I shall have to insist you all stop and watch mine, now that we're so open and above with each other.
01:09:11Two sheets.
01:09:12Two towels.
01:09:13Shirt.
01:09:14Teaspoons.
01:09:15Two silver.
01:09:16Sugar tongs.
01:09:17Boots assorted.
01:09:18Power.
01:09:19Here.
01:09:20Seventeen and six.
01:09:21I always give too much to a lady as a weakness of mine.
01:09:24That's how I come to ruin meself.
01:09:25Here.
01:09:26If you ask for another penny, made it an open question, I'd regret me liberality.
01:09:31Knock on half a crown.
01:09:32Now open my bundle, Joe.
01:09:33Come on, watch it eat.
01:09:34Ah.
01:09:35Eh?
01:09:36You wait and see.
01:09:37Yeah.
01:09:38Bed curtains.
01:09:39Bed curtains?
01:09:40Ah, bed curtains.
01:09:41Ah, bed curtains.
01:09:42Ah, bed curtains.
01:09:43Ah, bed curtains.
01:09:44But you, don't you say you took these down, rings and all, and, oh, him lying there?
01:09:48Yes, I do.
01:09:49Why not?
01:09:50Yes, I do.
01:09:51Why not?
01:09:52You was born to make a fortune, ma'am, and you, you certainly will.
01:09:55These is blankets, too.
01:09:56Whose else do you think?
01:09:57He ain't likely to take cold without them, I dare say.
01:09:58He didn't have anything catching, did he?
01:09:59Oh, don't you be afraid of that?
01:10:00Yeah.
01:10:01I wasn't too fond of his company.
01:10:02I'd loiter about him for such things if he did.
01:10:03And you can look through this, and I don't know what you're going to do.
01:10:04You could say you took these down, rings and all, and, oh, him lying there?
01:10:07Yes, I do.
01:10:08Why not?
01:10:09You was born to make a fortune, ma'am, and you, you certainly will.
01:10:12These is blankets, too.
01:10:13Whose else do you think?
01:10:14He ain't likely to take cold without them, I dare say.
01:10:16He didn't buy anything catching, did he?
01:10:17Oh, don't you be afraid of that.
01:10:18I wasn't too fond of his company, I'd loiter about him for such things if he did.
01:10:27And you can look through that till your eyes open, you won't find a hole in it.
01:10:30It's the best one he had, and a fine one, too.
01:10:33They'd have wasted it if it hadn't been for me.
01:10:36What do you mean, wasted it?
01:10:38Well, they'd have buried him in it, of course.
01:10:40But I took it off of him again, as if Calico ain't good enough for burying.
01:10:45Anyway, it's just as becoming to the body.
01:10:47He couldn't have looked uglier than what he did in this one.
01:10:51It's poetic justice.
01:10:53He frightened everybody away from him when he was alive,
01:10:56and now he benefits us when he's dead.
01:11:07No, I don't know much about it either way.
01:11:09I only know he's dead.
01:11:10When did he die?
01:11:11Last night, I believe.
01:11:12What was the matter with him?
01:11:13I thought he'd never die.
01:11:15So did he, I dare say.
01:11:17What's he done with all his money?
01:11:19Left it to his company.
01:11:20Where else?
01:11:21He didn't leave it to me.
01:11:22That's all I know.
01:11:23Well, the funeral won't cost much that certain.
01:11:26Upon my soul, I can't think of anyone who'll go to it.
01:11:29I don't mind going, if there's a luncheon provided.
01:11:32But I must be fair.
01:11:34Or else I stay at home.
01:11:42I know those men.
01:11:43They're men in business.
01:11:44Very wealthy, very important.
01:11:46Whose funeral were they talking about?
01:11:53Strange.
01:11:54My usual place is over there, under the clock.
01:11:59I ought to be there this time of day.
01:12:01But I'm not.
01:12:04I'm not.
01:12:24I'm not.
01:12:27Before I draw nearer to that stone, answer me one question.
01:12:30Are these the shadows of things that must be?
01:12:33Or are the only shadows of things that might be?
01:12:46I know that men's deeds foreshadow certain ends.
01:12:49But if the deeds be departed from, surely the ends will change.
01:12:52Tell me to sew with what you've shown me now.
01:13:22Tell me.
01:13:25Tell me.
01:13:28No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:13:30Tell me I'm not already dead.
01:13:33Tell me I'm not already dead.
01:13:35Tell me I'm not already dead.
01:13:37Tell me I'm not already dead.
01:13:41O Spirit, I'm not the man I was.
01:13:43Believe me, I'm not the man I was.
01:13:45Why show me all this if I'm beyond all hope?
01:13:47Oh, pity me, Spirit, pity me, and help me.
01:13:50Help me to sponge away the writing on the stone if I repent.
01:13:53And I do repent, I do repent.
01:13:55I'll make good wrongs I've done my fellow men, and I'll change.
01:13:59I'm not the man I was. I'm not the man I was.
01:14:02Believe me, believe me, I'm not the man I was.
01:14:12I'm not the man I was.
01:14:14I'm not the man I was.
01:14:17I don't...
01:14:47Good morning, sir.
01:14:54Tell me, what day is it?
01:14:58What day?
01:14:59What's Christmas Day, Costa?
01:15:01Christmas Day, Christmas Day, Christmas Day.
01:15:03Then I haven't missed it.
01:15:05The spirits must have done everything in one night.
01:15:08Of course, they can do anything, can't they?
01:15:11Of course they can.
01:15:21Are you quiet yourself, sir?
01:15:23What?
01:15:24I don't know.
01:15:26No, I don't think so.
01:15:29I hope not.
01:15:30What?
01:15:31The curtains are still here.
01:15:32They're still here.
01:15:33You didn't tear them down and sell them.
01:15:35They're here now.
01:15:36Everything's here.
01:15:37I'm here.
01:15:38And the shadows of things that would be, can still be dispelled.
01:15:48And they will be.
01:15:49I know they will be.
01:15:50I know.
01:15:51I don't know what to do.
01:15:53I'm as light as a fellow.
01:15:54I'm as happy as an angel.
01:15:55I'm as merry as a schoolboy.
01:15:56I'm as giddy.
01:15:57I'm as giddy as a drunken man.
01:15:58I've never...
01:15:59A merry Christmas, Ebeneezer.
01:16:01You old humbug.
01:16:02And the Happy New Year.
01:16:03As if you deserved it.
01:16:04A merry Christmas.
01:16:05You old humbug.
01:16:06And the Happy New Year.
01:16:07As if you deserved it.
01:16:08A merry Christmas.
01:16:09A merry Christmas, Ebeneezer.
01:16:10You old humbug.
01:16:11And the Happy New Year.
01:16:12As if you deserved it.
01:16:13A merry Christmas, Mrs. Dilber.
01:16:14Thank you, sir.
01:16:15Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
01:16:16And many, many of them...
01:16:18Rockwise!
01:16:19Rockwise!
01:16:20Yes.
01:16:21Look, Mrs. Dilber.
01:16:22There's the corner where the spirit of Christmas presents at.
01:16:24And there's the door where Jacob Marley's ghost came through.
01:16:25And there's the window where I saw the wandering spirit.
01:16:26It's right.
01:16:27It's true.
01:16:28It all happened.
01:16:29I don't know what day of the month it is.
01:16:30I don't know how long I've been amongst the spirits.
01:16:31I don't know anything.
01:16:32I never did know anything.
01:16:33But now I know this.
01:16:34But now I know myself.
01:16:35Correct my encouragement.
01:16:37You won't find it.
01:16:38I know nothing.
01:16:39It's the door.
01:16:40That's why I know the mother who thought this morning.
01:16:41It's me.
01:16:42It's right.
01:16:43It's the door.
01:16:44It's the door.
01:16:45It's the door.
01:16:46I know everything.
01:16:47Thanks.
01:16:48I'm not too much.
01:16:49I cannot.
01:16:50And I know everything.
01:16:51It's the door.
01:16:52But now I know that I don't know anything.
01:16:55I don't know anything. I never did know anything.
01:16:59But now I know that I don't know. All of the Christmas morning.
01:17:03I must stand in my head. I must stand in my head.
01:17:10Come back. Come back.
01:17:12Come back. Come back. Come back.
01:17:15Come back. Come back. Mr. Dilber.
01:17:21Please, please, Mr. Dilber.
01:17:23I am not mad.
01:17:27Even if I look...
01:17:28Don't be father, Mr. Scrooge.
01:17:30Say you force me to scream for the beetle.
01:17:33The beetle, madam.
01:17:35A thing for the beetle.
01:17:38A guinea?
01:17:41Here. What for?
01:17:43I'll give you one guess.
01:17:45To keep me mouth shut.
01:17:47Hmm?
01:17:48Oh!
01:17:49To keep me mouth shut.
01:17:51Oh, no. No, no, no, no, Mr. Dilber.
01:17:54It's for a Christmas present.
01:17:59A Christmas present?
01:18:03For me?
01:18:07Of course, for you.
01:18:09A merry, merry Christmas.
01:18:12Dear Mrs. Dilber.
01:18:15How much do I pay you?
01:18:17Two shillings a week.
01:18:18What? Two shillings?
01:18:20It's forthwith raised to ten.
01:18:22Ten shillings a week here?
01:18:24You sure you don't want to see a doctor?
01:18:26A doctor, certainly not.
01:18:27Nor the undertaker.
01:18:28Now off you go and enjoy yourself.
01:18:30Like a good girl.
01:18:31Boop your uncle.
01:18:32Ho, ho, ho.
01:18:33Ho, ho, ho.
01:18:34Ho, ho, ho.
01:18:35Ho, ho, ho.
01:18:36Ho, ho, ho.
01:18:37Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
01:18:39And keep me with the situation.
01:18:41Oh, merry, merry pickles.
01:18:42What a beautiful morning.
01:18:43Hello there, hello.
01:18:44You, you boy, you.
01:18:45Who, me?
01:18:46Yes, you.
01:18:47Do you know the butchers in the next street but one?
01:18:49I should hope so.
01:18:50What a beautiful morning.
01:18:56Hello there, hello, you, you boy, you.
01:18:58Who, me?
01:18:59Yes, you.
01:19:00Do you know the butchers in the next street but one?
01:19:02I should hope so.
01:19:03An intelligent boy.
01:19:05What a remarkable boy.
01:19:06Tell me, have they sold the priced turkey that was hanging there,
01:19:08not the little turkey, the big one?
01:19:10The one as big as me?
01:19:12Yes.
01:19:13Oh, delightful boy.
01:19:14Yes, my boy.
01:19:15Yes, my boy.
01:19:16My boy.
01:19:17Yes, my buck, the one as big as you.
01:19:19It's hanging there still.
01:19:20Is it?
01:19:21Very well then.
01:19:22Go and buy it.
01:19:23Walker!
01:19:24No, no, no.
01:19:25Wait a minute.
01:19:26Wait a minute.
01:19:27I'm in earnest.
01:19:28Tell the butcher to bring it here,
01:19:29and I'll give him the name of the party he has to send it to.
01:19:31Come back with the butcher, and I'll give you a shilling.
01:19:35Come back with him in less than five minutes,
01:19:37and I'll give you half a crown.
01:19:39An enchanting boy.
01:19:41I'll send it to Bob Cratchit.
01:19:47That's what I'll do.
01:19:48He'll never dream where it came from.
01:19:49None of us here.
01:19:50I must have a label.
01:19:51Label, label, label, label, label.
01:19:53Label.
01:19:54It's twice the size of Tiny Ten.
01:20:00Mr. Robert Cratchit, 2 Porter Street, Camden Town.
01:20:06That's you, Robert.
01:20:08These traces no one else I know of.
01:20:11I think I know who sent it.
01:20:13Who?
01:20:14Who?
01:20:15Mr. Scrooge.
01:20:17Oh, dear, oh, dear.
01:20:18Whatever made you think it might be him?
01:20:20I don't know.
01:20:22I just think it.
01:20:23What would make Mr. Scrooge take such leave of his senses suddenly?
01:20:29Christmas.
01:20:38Christmas.
01:20:39In Scrooge town, where I was born, there was a fair maid's dwelling, made every youth cry when La Dey.
01:20:49In Scarlet's town where I was born, there was a fair maid dwelling, made every youth cry when La Day.
01:21:03Her name was Barbara Allen. All in the merry month of May, when green bulbs they were swelling,
01:21:15young Jenny drove on his dampened leg, for love of Barbara Allen.
01:21:26So slowly, slowly she came up, and slowly she came by him, and now she said, well, well she came.
01:21:41Young man, I think.
01:21:49Uncle Ebenezer!
01:21:50Is it too late to accept your invitation to dinner?
01:21:52Too late? I'm delighted, delighted! My dear, look who it is!
01:21:56Can you forgive a pig-headed old fool for having no eyes to see with, no ears to hear with, all these years?
01:22:15Bless you, dear uncle! You've made Fred so happy!
01:22:31Oh, bless you!
01:22:33Dennis, polka!
01:22:36Come on, everybody, give me what!
01:22:55Bravo!
01:22:56Bravo!
01:22:57Come on, everybody!
01:22:58Everybody!
01:22:59Bravo!
01:23:00Come on, everybody!
01:23:01Everybody!
01:23:29Come on!
01:23:30Come on!
01:23:31Come on!
01:23:32Come on!
01:23:33Come on!
01:23:59Come on!
01:24:09Cratchit!
01:24:10You're late.
01:24:11Sir.
01:24:12What do you mean by coming in here at this time of day, hmm?
01:24:16I'm very sorry, sir.
01:24:18I am behind my time, sir.
01:24:21You are indeed.
01:24:23Step this way, Mr. Cratchit, please.
01:24:26It's only once a year, sir.
01:24:29It won't be repeated.
01:24:31I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.
01:24:35I'm sure you were.
01:24:37Well, we won't beat about the bush, my friend.
01:24:40I'm not going to stand this sort of thing any longer,
01:24:43which leaves me no alternative but to raise your salary.
01:24:56you all.
01:24:57Yes!
01:25:05I haven't taken leave of my senses, Bob.
01:25:08I've come to them.
01:25:10From now on, I want to try to help you to raise that family of yours.
01:25:15If you'll let me.
01:25:19Well, we'll talk it over later, Bob, over a bowl of hot punch.
01:25:24Meanwhile, you, you just go and put some more coal in that fire.
01:25:32And you go straight out and buy a new coal scuttle.
01:25:36And you do that before you dot another I, Bob Cratchit.
01:25:40No, I don't deserve to be so happy.
01:25:55I can't help it.
01:25:59I just can't help it.
01:26:03Scrooge was better than his word.
01:26:06He became as good a friend, as good a master,
01:26:08and as good a man as the good old city ever knew.
01:26:11Or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.
01:26:15And to tiny Tim, who lived and got well again,
01:26:19he became a second father.
01:26:21Uncle Scrooge!
01:26:22And it was always said that he knew how to keep Christmas well,
01:26:28for if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
01:26:31May that be truly said of us and all of us.
01:26:34And so, as tiny Tim observed,
01:26:37God bless us, everyone.
01:26:39He knew thereafter how to keep Christmas well.
01:27:01Dickens.
01:27:08What can I say?
01:27:10It was 38 years ago that film was made.
01:27:13And it still continues to delight young and old alike.
01:27:17I know that our family looks forward every Christmas
01:27:21to spending this special time together with Scrooge, Marley, Bob Cratchit.
01:27:28All of them.
01:27:30I hope you've enjoyed this version of Scrooge.
01:27:34And as tiny Tim so elegantly says,
01:27:38God bless us.
01:27:40Everyone.
01:27:41I'm Patrick McNee.
01:27:44Good night.
01:27:45And thank you.
01:27:46Oh.
01:27:48And Merry, Merry Christmas.
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