The Ghost hints that if things don't change for the family, Tiny Tim will die and then disappears, leaving a distraught Scrooge begging for clarification. Scrooge sees that their Christmas dinner for their family of five consists of barely enough food to feed one person, and becomes especially concerned when he sees Bob's ill son Tiny Tim (played by Morty Mouse). The Ghost takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit's house. As Scrooge laments over his past actions, he is then visited the gigantic, merry Ghost of Christmas Present ( Willie the Giant). A distraught Scrooge asks the Ghost to return him to the present, and the Ghost grants his request, but reminds him that he created this past himself. However, the Ghost shows Scrooge how over time, he came to love money more than Isabelle and as a result, Isabelle left him when he foreclosed the mortgage on their honeymoon cottage. They see Fezzywig throws a Christmas party where the young Scrooge meets a young woman named Isabelle ( Daisy Duck), whom he falls in love with. They visit his time as an employee under the kind Fezzywig ( Mr. Before leaving, Marley then tells Scrooge that he will be visited by three more spirits in the night and that he should listen to them and do what they say, lest his chains become heavier than Marley's.Īt one o'clock, Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past ( Jiminy Cricket), who takes him back in time to his early adult life. Jacob informs Scrooge that as punishment for his greedy ways, he is condemned in the afterlife to carry long and heavy chains, and warns that the same thing will happen to Scrooge if he doesn't change his own ways before his death, making the old miser frightened and beg for help. As he enters his house, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old partner Jacob Marley ( Goofy). Scrooge continues his business and goes home. His overworked and underpaid employee, Bob Cratchit ( Mickey Mouse), who Scrooge pays just a little extra to do his laundry, requests to have half of Christmas Day off, to which Scrooge reluctantly accepts on the condition that Cratchit is docked half a day's pay. He refuses to give money to a panhandler outside his office, declines his nephew Fred ( Donald Duck)'s invitation to Christmas dinner, and dismisses two gentlemen (Rat and Mole) fundraising aid for the poor. On Christmas Eve in 19th-century London, surly money-lender Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Scrooge McDuck) objects to the merriment of Christmas. It was the first nomination for a Mickey Mouse short since Mickey and the Seal (1948). The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984, but lost to Jimmy Picker's Sundae in New York. The musical featured similar dialogue and a similar cast of characters. Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio musical An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. In the United States, it was first aired on television on NBC, on 10 December 1984. The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on 16 December 1983, with the re-issue of The Rescuers (1977). Toad (1949) and Robin Hood (1973), were cast throughout the film. Many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe, as well as Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), and characters from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and stars Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated Christmas fantasy featurette directed and produced by Burny Mattinson.
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