Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost

About Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost

Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is a 1901 British trick film directed by the magician Walter R. Booth for the pioneer producer Robert W. Paul, and the earliest film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Daniel Smith plays the miser, and Booth's superimpositions put Jacob Marley's face on the door knocker and project the scenes of Scrooge's youth onto a black curtain in his bedroom. Only part of the film survives, in a tinted print. It airs on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures channel (CH 12).