nothing beats the scene in the hebrew hammer of the kid who's stumbling high as a kite, repeting the line from It's a wonderful life...lol...and they try to give him a copy of Yentle to snap him out of it...one of the cleverest things ive seen.

I take a poop every Christmas morning

Amen 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

@@mystical9054 and I give one. Hahaha

yup

I listen to the Patrick Stewart audible book too!

@@Markstewart20 I myself think his movie portrayal of Scrooge is excellent. All of the different actors bring something to enjoy to the movie or audiobook. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

@@Cashcrop54 and to you too😊

Ty, I will look for it😊

The first time I found out about their presence in the book was when I saw George C. Scott's version of A Christmas Carol. The most recent time was Disney's 2009 adaptation (which is rather ironic that Disney would be willing to go that far considering the bleakness the scene is supposed to represent). It can make sense from an intellectual point to add those elements to the story because it points to a problem man created by ignoring the plight of the poor. However, given the fact that the story is already rather bleak in regards to what will happen to Scrooge if he stays on the path that he is on and some audiences might not catch on to the symbolism, it's easier to just exclude that element and trust the righting to show audiences the importance of taking the time to think about your fellow members of mankind.

@@renegade637 they are in the 51 and 70 versions

so true

I agree

Better than Shakespeare!

Yes good analogy!

My pleasure I saw this a few years ago and then it disappeared I located it on some Chinese version of you tube and uploaded again shame its not on DVD?

timothyj1966 well said I agree 😊🎄😊

timothyj1966 Spot on-well said! Merry Christmas to you!!

timothyj1966 Agreed!! Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

nrmora31, I agree with pretty much everything you said. Christmas has become stressful, making sure you’ve bought everything the family wants or needs and then only to have them whine, crab, and complain that they didn’t get XYZ. All the while trying to make sure you’ve got a happy smile on your face but cringing on the inside. It’s no wonder so many people suffer from seasonal SAD. However, there are also the moments when your small children do have that face lite up upon seeing Santa and trying to keep the Christmas spirit alive for them for however long one can😊

Life wasn't so happy later...He & his wife split after ten children, & he ended up with a much younger actress

many thanks

That word means "wizard" or "magician."

@@pjruland of the dead

@@sstrykert Dickens was trying to be a magician of deadening memories. He could never forgive his mother for sending him into the nightmarish factory he worked in as a child. That work was necessary to rescue his tragically incompetent father from debtor's prison. His father wanted desperately to be the extravagant, spontaneous person that Dickens was able to be at Christmas time but his father was just an impoverished no-hoper. Dickens had to work frantically hard in order to keep ahead of his own generous fantasies of family life, and to quell those awful memories.

@@tracesprite6078 desperation yields innovation

@@sstrykert Yes, in the case of Dickens desperation did lead to innovation - because Dickens had the talent to be a great writer and was willing to do the massive amount of hard work involved. He also had supportive friends who encouraged him - and he had his loyal readers. Without readers there are no writers so readers do a vital literary task.

Glad you enjoyed!

I loved it.

As Griff says that the Victorians were rocketing into modernity with an eye on the past?

@@Markstewart20 Exactly! 😊👍

@@Markstewart20 they probably also had an eye on the future as well.

Yay for humbugs!

Jeff Foehringer rubbish

As they say: Why let them pesky little facts get in the way of a good story?? Herr Trump lives by these words every single day - or more likely every moment, since his memory for actual (as opposed to "alternative") facts is shorter than your average goldfish :-=).

No one lies about history more than the post-war Liberal 'educational' establishment. Just ask honest Germans.

@@ministryofanti-feminism1493 I am certain that conservatives have also contributed to the innacuracies in the history curriculum. For example, the traditional presentation of Thanksgiving and the. wars against the First Nation peoples

@@altareggo 'First Nation peoples'? What is that nonsense? Inaccuracies in the historical narratives will always exist, but what is rampant today is the anti-white message that runs through modern interpretations of history, especially with regard to colonialism. For example, did you know that fellow whites were enslaved in the New World BEFORE and IN GREATER numbers than Negroes ever were? The primary sources are contained in Jordan & Walsh's book White Cargo. And then there's the nonsense about angelic Jews being thrown into mythical 'gas chambers' during the second world war, even though millions of them magically appeared in Israel and the USA from 1948, and even though all the documentation proves that the deaths that occured in the camps were identified as occurring by way of starvation and disease.

scott left yes your right... he improved not invented Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄

Even older than the Romans!

Well, ...it's older than even Christianity. The Dies Natalis Soli Invicti, the Sol Novus, Brumalia, a day in the festival of Saturnalia, etc. People had lots of reasons for celebrating the resurgence of the Sun's power.

Your last comment is precisely one reason why Jesus was born nowhere near December 25. It is not true Christmas is as old as the Romans; it is as old as Satan himself who has been in the counterfeit message business since ancient times. I wonder what part of the sermon on the mount includes the command to 'riot' in the face of denial of a shopping holiday. The Whore of Babylon marches on.

@@stizelswik3694 Strangely though, the holiday called Christmas is also referred to as the "incarnation,' which, of course, is different from the nativity. Christ became incarnate, of the Holy Ghost, as CONCEPTION, not at birth. His incarnation, not his birth, is the really remarkable event in human history and, strange and coincidental as it may seem, it would not surprise me if Dec. 25 is precisely the date on which that conception occurred. God has a remarkable way of checkmating even the most insidious of Satan's schemes to counterfeit His plan of redemption. Of course, as remarkable as that may be as both a human event and a fulfillment of prophecy, the truly significant event, on which we all rely, is not his birth but his DEATH. "For when you eat this bread and drink this wine you celebrate his DEATH." Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again. Hallelujah!

There’s a much better version on BBC iPlayer at the moment

The idea of businesses not opening on christmas though is also partly down to him. Sadly Black Friday seems to be taking over now as the big sales day

Should be on my channel. The BBC put this out last Christmas in glorious HD!!

"People were having big celebrations at Winter Solstice time when the Flintstones were kids." The holiday was originally celebrated to mark the days starting to grow longer. It was the early Christians who converted Dec. 25th into a celebration of Jesus' birth. This way the converts to Christianity could keep their big year-end holiday...only something different to celebrate. Instead of the coming of the Sun, it would be the coming of the Son.(Chuckle!) Jesus was probably born sometime in mid-fall.

there is a part 2🙂

@@Markstewart20 oh ok...ty 😀

That would help a lot

its on BBC Iplayer at Christmas but I cant work out how to upload to KZfaq??

General Kinobe

I think there’s something in that theory. The poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas has been just as important in the invention of the modern Christmas and the figure of Santa Claus, and that was some decades earlier than A Christmas Carol.

Good idea. And apparently, he was a very good, articulate, passionate and humorous in his presentations. Charles Dickens reading one of his stories would have me running to the nearest book store afterward. @@thewkovacs316

He never was made a Sir, never knighted.

@@pygiana16 or given an OBE while we are on the subject of Mr Dickens. but Queen Victoria did let him be laid to rest in Westminster Abby

He wasn't. His biographer Peter Ackroyd wrote that he may have declined a knighthood. I can't see it.

Peter, I had to upload in 2 x parts, watch the second one?

Do they live underwater?

Yas

Jimbo McMason owns my brother

@@Willyjohn69420 yes he is mine!😎

@@jamesmason187 pp

@@Willyjohn69420 ja

The goose Martha!

Ha!

he was horrible to her eventually, dumped her for a 17 year old actress after keeping his wife Katherine continually pregnant for 15 years (she grew fat and was a semi invalid and thus no longer attractive.)

@@omfug7148 Oh no! That's terrible

@@bettyglitter4760 here is the complete, sad story (btw just because Dickens was an asshole it doesn't mean that he wasn't a genius, his work has stood the test of time, it is just interesting that as much sympathy as he had for the poor, he had none for his wife of decades.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJ1-prpiqbHNYWg.html

Great historical on the legendary christmas horror story

coincidentally it was on BBC4 last night in full HD!

Try www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008lykb/charles-dickens-and-the-invention-of-christmas