A Christmas Carol (1971)

<p>🎄 It’s 1971, and Alastair Sim is delivering an even more animated performance as Scrooge.  </p><p>Join us as we invade your personal space for salute an animated adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” that bent the rules and became the last TV special to win an Oscar, directed by Richard Williams and executive produced by Chuck Jones.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Michael May (<a href="https://www.michaelmay.online/">MichaelMay.online</a>, <a href="http://www.afterlunchpodcast.net">AfterLUNCH</a>).  </p><p>Rob Graham (<a href="http://www.afterlunchpodcast.net">AfterLUNCH</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/spidey004">@spidey004</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. Michael May’s <a href="https://www.michaelmay.online/search/label/sim%20animated%20christmas%20carol">Christmas Carol Project entries on 1971’s “A Christmas Carol.”</a>  </p><p>2. <a href="http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/christmas-carol/christmas-carol.html">CED Magic’s “Christmas Carol” screen adaptation directory</a>.  </p><p>3. <a href="https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/teachers/carol/illustrations.html">John Leech’s original illustrations</a> for the Dickens story.  </p><p>4. <a href="http://nerdlunch.net/podcast/2021/12/afterlunch-72-christmas-ghosts-and-one-carol-in-particular/">AfterLUNCH on Christmas Ghosts (And One Carol in Particular)</a>.  </p><p>5. The rarely seen <a href="http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/christmas-carol/1971-toon-carriage.html">Phantom Hearse</a>.  </p><p>6. <a href="http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/christmas-carol/1971-toon-ali-baba.html">Visions of Young Scrooge’s favorite stories</a> dancing in his head.  </p><p>7. <a href="https://www.alex-williams.com">Alex Williams’s website</a> and <a href="http://flipanimation.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-merry-christmas-from-real-tiny-tim.html">blog post about his memory of voicing Tiny Tim</a> at age 4.  </p><p>8. One notable businessman from the future and his <a href="http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/christmas-carol/1971-toon-businessmen.html">gross no