A Christmas Carol (1951)
with Alastair Sim as “Scrooge”
86 minutes
Movie Clip 1 (03:40-04:34) --- Mr. Scrooge and two visitors asking for money for the poor
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Visitors: Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
Mr. Scrooge: Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years. In fact, he died seven years ago this
very day.
Visitors: Well, we have no doubt that his generosity is well represented by his surviving partner.
At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should
make some slight provision for the poor and destitute.
Mr. Scrooge: Are there no prisons?
Visitors: Plenty of prisons.
Mr. Scrooge: And the union work houses, are they still in operation?
Visitors: They are. I wish I could say they were not.
Mr. Scrooge: And the Treadmill and the Poor Law, they’re still in full vigor, I presume?
Visitors: Both very busy, Sir.
Mr. Scrooge: Oh, from what you said I was afraid that something had happened to stop them in
their useful course. I’m very glad to hear it.
Movie Clip 2 (08:00-08:24) --- Mrs Cratchet and little Tim
Mrs Cratchet (little Tim’s mom) says the following about her husband:
His eyes will pop right out of his head and he’ll forget all about horrid old Mr. Scrooge.
What does Mrs Cratchet mean by the expressions in boldface?
a. He will be very surprised. b. Mr. Scrooge is an unpleasant person.
Movie Clip 3 (15:00-17:48) --- Jacob Marley arrives
What do the expressions in boldface mean?
a. Jacob Marley: Why do you doubt your senses?
What don’t you believe what you see?
b. Mr. Scrooge: Why do you come to me?
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Jacob Marley: It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad
with his fellow men. If it goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so after death. It is
doomed to wander through the world.
It has to walk around the world.
c. Mr. Scrooge: Why are you fettered?
Why are you wearing chains?
d. Jacob Marley: I wear the chain I forged in life.
I wear the chain that I made in life.
Movie Clip 4 (21:50-23:22) --- The first spirit arrives
a. What time does the first spirit arrive?
When the bell tolls one.
b. Who is the first spirit?
The Ghost of Christmas Past.
c. Why is Mr. Scrooge afraid to walk through the window?
He is a mortal and he is liable to fall.
Movie Clip 5 (23:30-26:00) --- Mr. Scrooge’s past
a. Describe Mr. Scrooge’s old school.
It is lonely and deserted.
b. Ebenezer Scrooge was a solitary boy. What does this mean?
He was always lonely.
c. Why does Fan come to see Ebenezer?
To take him home.
Movie Clip 6 (28:00-29:10) --- Love in Mr. Scrooge’s life
How are the following expressed in this movie clip?
a. take something that someone offers you: accept (e.g. a ring)
b. silly: foolish
c. the heart stops working: the heart ceases to beat
Movie Clip 7 (34:46-35:40) --- Mr. Marley and Mr. Scrooge in the past
What does Ebenezer say about the future?
The world is becoming a very hard and cruel place.
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Movie Clip 8 (48:44-49:19) --- Mr. Marley’s death
Did Mr. Scrooge feel a little pity for Mr. Marley when he died?
No.
Movie Clip 9 (51:42-55:10) --- The second spirit arrives
a. What place do Mr. Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas Present visit first?
A place where miners live.
b. What special condition does little Tim have?
He is a cripple. /He is a lame boy.
c. Mr. Scrooge wants the Spirit of Christmas Present to spare tiny Tim. What does this mean?
He wants little Tim to live.
Movie Clip 10 (01:13:32-01:15:42) --- Mr. Scrooge’s transformation into a happy man
How happy is Mr. Scrooge now that he is still alive?
a. He is as light as a feather.
b. He is as happy as an angel.
c. He is as merry as a schoolboy.
d. He is as giddy as a drunken man.
Movie Clip 11 (01:25:35-01:26:12) ---- Mr.Scrooge’s new life
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Scrooge was better than his word. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a
man as the good old city ever knew. Or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good
old world. And to tiny Tim, who lived and got well again, he became a second father. And it was
always said that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
May that be truly said of us, and all of us. And so, as tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one.
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