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Released
1938 · FILM

A Christmas Carol

Greater than "David Copperfield"!

Directed by
Runtime
69 min
DramaFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by spirits who show him the bleakness of his life, the opportunities he squandered in his youth, the cruelty he inflicts on others, and the grim future that awaits him unless he changes. Through these visions, Scrooge confronts the story of his growing bitterness and meanness, and is given a choice between continuing on his current path to death or embracing the possibility of redemption.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by George BoemlerShot by Sidney WagnerScored by Franz Waxman

Also known as

  • Un conte de Noëlfr

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