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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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00:13THE END
00:55The place, London, the time, 1814.
01:00The season, that of jollity, of festivity and charity, holly and berries and goodwill to all men, with perhaps one
01:09exception.
01:10And it is with this exception that we are concerned in our story.
01:15The exception is Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:36A merry Christmas, Uncle. God save you.
01:40Humbug.
01:41Christmas, a humbug, Uncle. You don't mean that, I'm sure.
01:45But 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. Don't be cross, Uncle.
02:00What else can I be? Out upon a merry Christmas.
02:04If I could work my will, every idiot who'd go back with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled
02:12in his own pudding
02:13and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
02:18Uncle!
02:18Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.
02:24Don'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.
02:33But I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.
02:36So, a merry Christmas, Uncle, and a happy new year.
02:40Good afternoon.
02:42And a merry Christmas, Mr. Cratchit.
02:43Merry Christmas, sir.
02:45Good afternoon!
02:49Scrooge and Marley's, I believe.
02:51Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
02:54Mr. Marley's died seven years ago this very night.
02:58At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,
03:01a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means
03:05of warmth.
03:06But are there no prisons?
03:09Plenty of prisons.
03:10And the treadmill and the poor law are the union workhouses.
03:14They're in full vigour, then, hmm?
03:16Both very busy.
03:17Oh, I was afraid, from what you said at first,
03:20that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.
03:23I don't make merry myself at Christmas,
03:25and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
03:28Yes, I know.
03:29You'll tell me that many can't go there,
03:30and many would rather die.
03:32Well, they'd better do that,
03:34than decrease the surplus population.
03:38Good afternoon, gentlemen.
03:41Good afternoon.
03:46You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose, hmm?
03:51If quite convenient, sir.
03:53It's not convenient, and it's not fair.
03:56If I was to stop you half a crown for it,
03:59you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound, hmm?
04:02And 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.
04:16You'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.
04:39Chica... Chica Barley!
04:44Oh!
04:58Humbug
04:59Humbug
05:37What do you want with me?
05:40Much. You don't believe in me.
05:45I don't, because you may be an undigested bit of beef, a fragment of an underdone potato.
05:54There's more of gravy than of grave about you.
06:03I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it, link by link and yard by yard. I girded
06:15it 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.
06:28Business! Mankind was my business.
06:36Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned down and never raise them to that
06:44blessed star which led the wise men to a poor abode?
06:49Hear me.
06:52I will, I will.
06:54I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance of escaping my fate. Ebenezer.
07:05You will be haunted by three spirits. Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls one. Expect the second on
07:19the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has
07:27ceased to vibrate.
07:33The air was filled with moaning phantoms. Their misery was plainly that they had lost the power to interfere for
07:40good in human matters.
07:52Scrooge awoke to the chimes of a neighbouring clock. His room was flooded with light and a hand opened the
07:59curtains of his bed.
08:03Are you, are you the spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?
08:11I am.
08:12Who, who and what are you?
08:15I am the ghost of Christmas past.
08:18Long past?
08:20No, your past.
08:23What, what brings you here?
08:26Your welfare. Rise and walk with me.
08:36Good heavens, I was a boy here.
08:40Your lip is trembling.
08:42What?
08:42Good.
08:43And what is that upon your cheek?
08:46Nothing, nothing.
08:48Nothing.
08:50These are but shadows of the things that have been.
08:54They have no consciousness of us.
08:57The school is not quite deserted.
09:00A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
09:12Oh, poor boy.
09:15Let us see another Christmas.
09:22Do you know this place?
09:24I know it.
09:26I, I, I was apprenticed here.
09:29Oh, why.
09:31It's old Fezziwig.
09:33It's Fezziwig alive again.
09:35Oh, my dear.
09:38Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
09:40Yee-ho, my boys.
09:41No more work tonight.
09:43Christmas evening.
09:44Christmas Ebeneezer.
09:46Clear the way, my lad.
09:48Shut up, Ebeneezer.
09:50Merry Christmas to you.
09:52Yee-ho, my lad!
09:53Ha, ha!
09:55He was very much attached to me.
10:02Ha, ha, ha, ha.
10:04Welcome!
10:06Welcome, everybody!
10:08Merry Christmas to you all!
10:21A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
10:26It's just a matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
10:27It's just a matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
10:27Small?
10:28Why is it not?
10:30He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money.
10:33Three 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 or burdensome, of pleasure or of toil.
10:48My time is short.
10:50Quick!
10:53You are changed.
10:54You fear the world too much.
10:58There 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.
11:14Our contract is an old one.
11:19I can release you.
11:21Have I ever sought release?
11:23In words?
11:24In words?
11:25No.
11:26Never.
11:27In what then?
11:28In a changed nature.
11:30In an altered spirit.
11:34May you be happy in the life you have chosen.
11:40Spirit, why would you delight to torture me?
11:43I told you these were shadows of the things that have been.
11:49That they are what they are.
11:51Do not blame me.
11:54Take me back.
11:55Haunt me no longer.
12:11Enter Ebenezer Scrooge.
12:16Come in and know me better, man.
12:20I am the ghost of Christmas present.
12:24You have never seen the like of me before.
12:32Spirit, conduct me where you will.
12:36If you have ought to teach me, well, let me profit by it.
12:42Touch my robe.
12:48As they walked, the spirit shed from his torch a few drops of good cheer on the passers-by.
12:54They stopped to bless the humble dwelling of the Cratchit family.
13:03And how did little Tim behave?
13:05As good as gold.
13:07He told me coming home that he hoped the people saw him in the church
13:11because he was a cripple and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day
13:16who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
13:28The little boy's lost in the snow.
13:32The little boy's lost in the snow.
13:39A merry Christmas to us all, my dears.
13:43God bless us.
13:44God bless us, everyone.
13:47God bless us.
13:48God bless us, everyone.
13:51Spirit, tell me.
13:54Tell me if tiny Tim will live.
13:57I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner
14:02and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
14:08No, no.
14:10If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.
14:16No.
14:18No.
14:19What then?
14:21If he be like to die, he had better do it.
14:24Don't.
14:24And decrease the selfless population.
14:28Oh, God.
14:30To hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.
14:42What place is this?
14:44A place where miners live, who labor in the bowels of the earth.
14:49But they know me.
14:52See?
14:52God bless you, very gentlemen.
14:57Let nothing you dismay.
15:00Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day.
15:08And to save us all from saving our rest.
15:26When we have gone astray.
15:27Oh, God.
15:27Oh, God!
15:28Oh, God!
15:30Oh, God!
15:30Oh, God!
15:30Oh, God!
15:30Oh!
15:32Oh, God!
15:32And to save us all from saving our rest!
15:37Oh, God!
15:42Oh, it was born on Christmas Day to save a soul from Cypher's Paz
15:48when we have gone astride.
16:02Uncle 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.
16:12Uncle Scrooge.
16:14A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man,
16:17whatever he is.
16:18He wouldn't take it from me,
16:20but may he have it nevertheless.
16:24My life upon this globe is very brief.
16:28It ends tonight at midnight.
16:33Forgive me, but I see something strange.
16:38Look here.
16:40Look, look, down here.
16:43Spirit, are they yours?
16:47They are man's.
16:49And they cling to me.
16:53This boy is ignorance.
16:56This girl is want.
16:59Beware them both.
17:00But most of all, beware this boy.
17:04Have they no refuge?
17:06No, no resource?
17:08Are there no prisons?
17:09Are there no workhouses?
17:18Are there no workhouses?
17:23I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
17:31You are about to show me shadows of things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before
17:38us.
17:41Is that so, Spirit?
17:46Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen.
17:50But as I know your purpose is to do me good.
17:55Lead on.
17:57Lead on, Spirit.
17:59Is it?
18:05Old Scratch has got his own at last, I hear.
18:08Why, what was the matter with him?
18:09God knows.
18:10It's likely to be a very cheap funeral.
18:13I don't mind going if a lunch is provided, but I must be fed.
18:32He's got somebody to look after him when he was struck with death.
18:37Come into the parlour.
18:39Come into the parlour.
18:40Come into the parlour.
18:42Open that bundle, old Joe.
18:45What have you got there, Percy?
18:47Anything you've ever found?
18:50These blankets.
18:53Bed curtains.
18:55You don't mean to say you took them down rings at all with him lying there.
19:00Yes, I do.
19:04If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?
19:11It's a judgement on him.
19:17I see.
19:18Yes, I do, I do see.
19:21Oh, God merciful heaven, what is this?
19:29Spirit, this is a fearful place.
19:31In leaving it, I'll not leave its lesson.
19:35Let us go.
19:37I understand you, and I would do it if I could.
19:42But I have not the power, Spirit, I have not the power.
19:49Let me see some tenderness connected with the death.
19:57My little, little child.
19:59My little child.
20:01My little child.
20:02My little child.
20:06Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question.
20:12Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of the things that may be
20:20only?
20:25Am I the man who lay upon the bed?
20:30No, Spirit.
20:32No, no, no.
20:35Spirit, I am not the man I was.
20:39Good Spirit, assure 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.
21:02They are not torn down. Look, rings and all.
21:08Yes, I will live in the past, the present, and the future.
21:12Oh, Jacob Marley.
21:14Heaven and the Christmas time be praised for this.
21:21I just don't know what to do.
21:28I don't know what day of the month it is.
21:31I don't know how long I've been among the spirits.
21:34I don't know anything.
21:41Hello, hello.
21:44What's today?
21:45Eh?
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.
22:00I 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.
22:23You know, I scarcely haven't looked at it before.
22:26It's a wonderful knocker.
22:31I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's.
22:34And he shan't know who sends it.
22:39My man, my dear sir.
22:41How do you do?
22:43Merry Christmas to you, sir.
22:45Mr. Scrooge.
22:47Yes.
22:48Allow me to ask your pardon.
22:53Will you come and see me?
22:55I will.
22:57I will.
23:00Bless you.
23:03Is your master at home?
23:04Yes, sir.
23:05He's in the dining room along with Mistress.
23:09I'll just go in myself.
23:13Fred.
23:14Well, bless my soul.
23:17Come in, uncle.
23:18Come in, uncle.
23:24Hello.
23:26And 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, therefore, I am about to raise your salary.
23:53A merry Christmas, Bob.
23:55A merry Christmas.
23:56I will raise your salary, Bob.
23:59And endeavor to assist your struggling family.
24:02And we'll discuss your affairs this very afternoon, Bob.
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.
24:18It was said thereafter that Ebenezer Scrooge knew how to keep Christmas well.
24:23If any man alive possessed that knowledge.
24:32Now, to the Lord we pray, did all you live in this place?
24:38And in true love and rathomhood each other now impressed.
24:44In holy time of Christmas, full of a spunky feast,
24:48Come on, come on, it's the club that thà nh sure.
24:52Come on, come on, it's the club that thà nh sure.