Christmas Carol: The Movie
United Kingdom, Germany
2001
77 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens. As he begins his ‘story of ghosts’ a woman in the audience screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that this is appropriate since his story begins with a mouse. At this point the story turns into the animated version and Dickens explains that the mouse, named Gabriel, carries a glimmer of hope amidst the glaring co-existence of rich and poor in the streets of London. Throughout the subsequent unfolding of the well-known story Gabriel acts as a miniature Greek chorus, providing younger members of the audience with a point of entry into the story and, in the case of the potentially frightening elements (the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future), a place of refuge. —IMDb
Director
Jimmy T. Murakami
Teruaki “Jimmy” Murakami, (村上輝明 Murakami Teruaki, born June 5, 1933 in San Jose, California), is a Japanese American animator and director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman. He formed Murakami-Wolf Films with Fred Wolf.
As a child, Murakami was interned with his family at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in northern California.
Murakami was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film for The Magic Pear Tree (1968). He also directed the music video for “King of the Mountain”, the single from Kate Bush’s album Aerial.
Murakami was the subject of a 2010 feature documentary film made by Irish director Sé Merry Doyle and produced by Martina Durac and Vanessa Gildea of Loopline Films. Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien was premiered in Dublin at the 2010 IFI Stranger than Fiction Film Festival. —Wikipedia read more
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