"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!