Wow, what a happy scene of friends, family, fellow photographers, and neighbors coming together to watch Carol's moments of fame on The Learning Channel premiere of "Running of the Brides." Whether you were able to attend the premiere party or not, thank you so much for your enthusiastic support!
Here's the scene in our back yard, enjoying the show while eating homemade pudding and other yummy desserts. It felt like a perfect summer evening, and it reminded some of going to a drive-in movie in the old days, only better.
Allison and Rob said, "Carol is the best. She captured our wedding exquisitely, and has become more than just our wedding photographer. We're so proud of the many awards that she's won for her work. It was great fun being part of her official screening of "Running of the Brides." We cheered every time we saw Carol on the screen. She's not only a fabulous photog, she makes a mean chocolate bread pudding and flan!"
Liz and Rony Solovey, whose wedding Carol photographed last year, said, "We're really happy and excited to be here, supporting Carol and sharing this moment with her. We had a fabulous wedding and we're so happy that we chose Carol to capture the day for us."
Photographers, clients, friends, and neighbors glued to the tube.
The shock and awe of watching so many women battling to try on so many dresses in so little time.
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Title: "Disney's A Christmas Carol" Movie Review
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My favorite film adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and adapted by Noel Langley, the movie captured the dark yet whimsical tone of Dickens classic.
Disneys A Christmas Carol, the new animated film from writer-director Robert Zemeckis, tried to reinvigorate one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told. Though Zemeckis failed to find the right balance between the dark and the whimsical, I still applaud the movie for being faithful to Dickens work.
The film is very faithful indeed, that some of the images may terrify little children. Lets face it, Dickens 1843 novella was intended for adults. So Walt Disney Pictures is in a quandary. They are marketing an animated film to children that will ultimately scare them.
We all know the story by now. An old, bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey), finds redemption when he is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve. Carrey also voices Scrooge at various ages, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.
The Ghost of Christmas Past appears in a form of a flickering flame which is a fitting representation of what Dickens described as a bright, clear jet of light. The Ghost takes Scrooge on a journey back in time, revisiting moments in his past. We see Scrooge as a bright-eyed apprentice of Fezziwig (Bob Hoskins), as a man in love with Belle (Robin Wright Penn), and the caring brother of Fan (also voiced by Penn).
The most entertaining of Scrooges spectral visits is the Ghost of Christmas Present. Hes a merry giant who presents himself atop a Christmas tree decked out in robes and shows Scrooge what his life is really like in the present. Underneath his robes are two scary looking kids named Ignorance and Want.
The chapter that will terrify small children feature the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He is Death incarnate and takes Scrooge into his horrible future. Theres a scary scene where Scrooge is being chased by a carriage pulled by black horses with red, beady eyes.
Zemeckis has nearly perfected the performance-capture animation technology he utilized in 2004s The Polar Express and 2007s Beowulf. The cinematography of the film is excellent; its like a travelogue to Ye Olde England of the 1800s in full Disney Digital 3D. There are also many flying scenes to entertain the young audiences.
Carreys performance as Scrooge is credible, but I get the sense that the actor is more at home with the Ghosts characters. Gary Oldman as Cratchit, Scrooges assistant, steals the show. Oldman also voices Marley, Scrooges partner, and Tiny Tim, Cratchits sick boy.
My main complaint is Scrooges characterization. He wasnt presented nearly as evil as the film hoped for. Sure, Scrooge wishes for poor people to die, but then the next scene shows him getting his comeuppance.
Also, Scrooges transformation towards the end wasnt as joyful as I remember other Christmas Carol adaptations. But I did like the surprise narrator in the end, and Zemeckis still captures the spirit of Christmas.
I also enjoyed Zemeckis take on the Ghosts. By using Carrey to voice the phantom visitors, this film version questions whether the Ghosts are merely extensions of Scrooge himself.
And for that, Disneys A Christmas Carol gets 3 Bah Humbug kisses
Title: A Christmas Carol (1951) Movie Trailer with Alastair Sim as Scrooge
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Original movie trailer. Scrooge (1951), released as A Christmas Carol in the U.S., is one of the best-known film adaptations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It starred Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley.
The film also features Kathleen Harrison in an acclaimed turn as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman. Fans of British cinema will recognise George Cole as the younger version of Scrooge, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, a debtor, Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin, a role created for the film, Ernest Thesiger as Marley's undertaker, and Patrick Macnee as a young Jacob Marley. Michael Hordern plays Marley's ghost, as well as old Marley. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Dickens' words at the beginning and end of the film, and also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen cynically discussing Scrooge's funeral.
In the book, Mrs. Dilber is the name of the laundress whereas the charwoman was unnamed. The film also expands on the story by detailing Scrooge's rise as a prominent businessman who was corrupted by a greedy new mentor that had lured him away from the benevolent Mr. Fezziwig. When that new mentor, who does not appear at all in Dickens's original story, is discovered to be an embezzler, the opportunistic Scrooge and Marley offer to compensate the company's losses on the condition that they receive control of the company for which they work - and so, Scrooge and Marley is born. During the Ghost of Christmas Present sequence, the film also reveals that Scrooge's girlfriend from his younger days, Alice, works with the homeless and sick.
In this adaptation, a flashback during the Ghost of Christmas Past sequence shows that Ebenezer's mother died while giving birth to him which meant that, unlike the book, Ebenezer is younger than his sister Fan. The death of his mother caused his father to resent Ebenezer which he is reminded of by the Ghost of Christmas Past when Scrooge bitterly mentions that Fan died from complications after delivering his nephew, Fred.
In addition, the film has a scene where Ebenezer comes to his nephew's home on Christmas Day with some trepidation that he would be rejected because of his previous behaviour; however, Fred and his wife immediately give him a warm welcome, delighted to have his company at last.
Although the film was first shown on television as far back as 1954 (by local New York station WOR-TV),[1] it did not attain its current popularity in the USA until the 1970s, when it began to be shown on local NET and later PBS, stations. Until then, the most widely seen film version in the U.S. was MGM's 1938 adaptation starring Reginald Owen. The Alastair Sim version had received a favourable notice from The New York Times when it opened in 1951,[2] and a mixed review in Time magazine[3] criticizing the direction while praising the performances, but otherwise had not caused much of a stir. However, in the years since, it has attained classic status in the U.S. and become a favorite of the viewing public as well. Sim's characterisation of Scrooge, from mean and sinister to happy and generous, receives particular praise.
A colourised version of the film was released in 1989, and many of the DVD issues include it as an extra.
Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern reprised their roles two decades later, lending their voices to Richard Williams' 1971 animated version of the tale.
* Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge
* Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber
* Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit
* Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit
* Michael Hordern as Jacob Marley/Marley's Ghost
* Michael J. Dolan as Ghost of Christmas Past
* Francis de Wolff as Ghost of Christmas Present
* C. Konarski as Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
* George Cole as Young Ebenezer Scrooge
* John Charlesworth as Peter Cratchit
* Rona Anderson as Alice
* Glyn Dearman as Tiny Tim
* Hugh Dempster as Mr. Groper
* Louise Hampton as Laundress
* Carol Marsh as Fan
* Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin
* Roddy Hughes as Fezziwig
* Richard Pearson as Mr Tupper
* Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Fezziwig
* Patrick Macnee as Young Jacob Marley
* Brian Worth as Fred
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