"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Stave Five

We wrap up 1984's "A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" featuring stills from George C. Scott's TV-movie with Stave Five:

Pretty cool book on the whole but more of a curiosity than anything!

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Stave Four

 Time for Stave Four:

These stills are very atmospheric!

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Stave Three

We're up to Stave Three of "A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" from 1984 with more stills from the TV-Movie:

Edward Woodward was a really good Ghost of Christmas Present!

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Stave Two

Next is Stave Two of "A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" from 1984 with stills from that year's TV-movie starring George C. Scott:

I think these pictures represent the story and the special well.

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Stave One

Now we're ready to start looking at the different staves from "A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" so we can enjoy the stills from the 1984 TV-movie.

So, here's Stave One:

Pretty fun!

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984) - Introduction

"A Christmas Carol Christmas Book" (1984)

Armonk (New York)

Text: Tim Hallinan

Photography: David James

We turn from the edition of "A Christmas Carol" illustrated with scenes from the 1982 animated feature to another book similarly illustrated, but this one had still from the celebrated 1984 TV-movie starring George C. Scott!

The cover of the book gives the source away and this book does acknowledge that the scenes are from said special.

Here's the little blurb:

Kind of hyperbole. I guess they're saying that "Scrooge" from 1970 (being in color) wasn't  filmed on location and that "Scrooge" from 1951 is less faithful. Kind of odd brags!

The mention of the "first section" of the book refers to this thing going "Uncle Toby" on us with a bunch of other chapters devoted to other Christmas traditions.

Here's the table of contents:

Here's a sample chapter page:

Very interesting that they use the same picture of Charles Dickens that the last book did!

Here's a nice montage of the cast from the TV-movie:

Next, we do the inevitable stave-by-stave breakdown!

"A Christmas Carol" - Gallery Books (1985) - Stave Five

We now come to Stave Five of that book we've been looking at (running out of ways to rephrase the topic sentence each time):

I think this works pretty well as a book for kids. I like some of the character designs and this format doesn't suffer from the limited animation that's an issue with the animated film.

Interesting at any rate!

"A Christmas Carol" - Gallery Books (1985) - Stave Four

Now we move on to Stave Four of the book using illustrations from the 1982 Australian animated special:

I think most of the illustrations throughout this book work, but I'm still not crazy about the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come's design, either in the special or here.

"A Christmas Carol" - Gallery Books (1985) - Stave Three

Here's Stave Three of the 1985 book using stills from the 1982 Australian animated version of "A Christmas Carol":

Do you think that Scrooge was mad that the Ghost of Christmas Present stole his look?

"A Christmas Carol" - Gallery Books (1985) - Stave Two

We move on to Stave Two of the edition of "A Christmas Carol" with illustrations from the 1982 Australian special:

I know it's a cartoon character, but I still wish the Ghost of Christmas Past would get a longer tunic!