Welcome to Subterranean Cinema , The perfect place to watch.

Classic movies originating from PBS Fort Wayne.

I'm your host, Kris Hensler.

And tonight's film is Scrooge from 1935.

We'd also like to welcome a very special guest, Ebenezer Scrooge himself.

Mr. Scrooge, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for hanging out with us down here in the basement.

So how do you usually spend your holidays?

Oh, I don't spend anything at all.

Then I have more money to count.

What else would I do?

Well, I do like to be mean to small children, but otherwise I mostly count my money and just in case you're thinking about it, don't ask me to support your station or whine about becoming a member.

Thanks for the help, Uncle Ebenezer.

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Mr. Scrooge, why don't you tell viewers how they can get in on our exclusive Subterranean Cinema merchandise?

Do I have to.

Yep, I think you do.

All right.

Yeah, They have t shirts with the logo on the front and some other stuff on the back.

And?

they have a popcorn bucket.

Looks like it holds a fair amount of popcorn.

You know I'm not paying for that popcorn, right?

Oh, I know.

So if you want any of that stuff, go to the website PBSFortWayne.org/subcinema.

All right, that's enough pitch in for you, flapdoodles.

Tell the viewers about my movie.

See, that wasn't so bad.

It was terrible.

Okay.

Tonight's film is Scrooge from 1935, and it stars Seymour Hicks along with Donald Calthorpe as Bob Cratchit.

Now, for the five people out there that are unfamiliar with this story, here we go.

So let's here, I'm getting there.

So it's Christmas Eve, 1843, and Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold hearted moneylender, is What did you call me?

Never mind.

So he's working in his freezing office, along with his famously underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit.

Two local businessman arrived to request a donation for the poor.

But Scrooge responds that prisons and workhouses are sufficient to deal with poor people.

They absolutely are.

Yeah, thank you for that.

So anyway, Scrooge catches Bob trying to add some cold to the stove, but warns him he will be out of a job if he does not get back to work.

Yeah, that's right.

Don't touch the thermostat.

Get back to work.

I'm trying to do my job here, mister.

Fine.

Go do your job.

All right, So a visit from Fred, Scrooge's nephew and sole living relative only makes him more annoyed.

And he refuses to dine with him and his wife and grumbling that Christmas is, you know, humbug.

Right.

Okay, Mr. Scrooge, before you get too bent out of shape, why don't you tell us a little more about this film?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Someone has to do this, right?

Yeah.

This 1935 British film was the first feature length adaptation of the now famous Charles Dickens novel to include sound.

Hmm.

Sound.

Sounds like a waste of money to me.

I say we get let's.

Let's keep it good.

Okay, Just go ahead.

Kind of persnickety, aren't you?

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay.

Seymour Hicks, who plays me in this film, was a famous and successful British actor.

Actor they had previously played the role of Scrooge on stage starting in 1901 and also in a 1913 silent film version.

Throughout his career, he played the part of me on stage over 2000 times.

Anyway, let's stop all this chatty business and get this thing going.

Uncle Ebenezer, I could not agree more.

So having said that, we should probably get out the popcorn, pour some drinks, which you're paying for and not, and settle in for a night at the Movies with Scrooge starring Seymour Hicks.

Am I done here?

Just say the line.

Okay?

Yeah.

You're watching Subterranean Cinema only on PBS Fort Wayne.

Bah, humbug.

(dramatic music) ("Hark!

The Herald Angels Sing") ("The First Noel") (quill scribbling) (clock ticking) >> Ebenezer: May I inquire, Mr. Cratchit, what you are doing with that shovel full of coal?

>> Why, I beg your pardon sir, but the outer office is intensely cold.

And my fire- >> Your fire!

>> I should have said your fire, sir.

>> Yes, sir!

>> It shows symptoms of going out, and I thought it might venture to replenish it with a small quantity of coal.

>> Yes, well of course it's very evident to me you know, Mr. Cratchit, that you and I'll have to part.

>> Oh.

>> Oh, I see no help for it, sir.

You don't pay for the coal, so you can afford to be reckless.

Therefore very evident to me, sir, you know, that my interest is not your interest, nor my welfare your welfare.

Get on with your work, sir!

That'll keep you warm enough.

I'm not cold, why should you be?

And I am your senior, (cough) by a great many years, I fancy.

>> And all about a small shovel full of coal.

>> I'll have none of your mumbling, none of your mumbling!

You have a wife and family to support, I understand.

>> Yes, sir.

>> "Yes, sir."

How many children you got?

>> A round half dozen, sir.

Three boys and three girls.

>> Tut tut tut!

Can I afford a wife?

>> Yes, sir.

>> Eh?

>> I mean, no, sir.

>> Have I any children?

>> I don't know sir.

>> Eh?

>> No, no sir.

>> How much am I constrained to pay you a week for your services?

>> 15 schillings.

>> Ha, be to your interests, sir, to see that you're worth it.

(upbeat orchestral music) >> A merry Christmas to you, Uncle, and God save you!

>> Bah, humbug!

>> Christmas a humbug?

You can't mean that I'm sure.

>> I do mean it sir.

What right have you to be merry?

What reason have you to be merry?

You're poor enough.

>> Come then, what right do you to be dismal?

What reason have you to be morose?

You're rich enough.

>> Bah, humbug!

>> Oh, don't be cross, Uncle.

>> How can I help being cross, sir, when I live in such a world of fools as it is?

"A merry Christmas."

What's Christmas done for you, sir?

It's a time for paying bills without money!

Time for finding yourself a year older and not a penny richer.

If I had my way sir, every fool who goes about saying "Merry Christmas," should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

He should!

>> Fred: Uncle!

>> Nephew, you keep Christmas your way, let me keep it in mine!

>> Fred: Keep it?

But you don't keep it.

>> Well, let me leave it alone then!

Much good has it done ya, much good will it ever do ya.

>> It's the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut heart freely.

And therefore, though it's never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good and will do me good.

And I say God bless it!

>> Here, Here!

(quill tapping) Here, here!

>> Mr. Cratchit!

If I hear another word from you, you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation!

Dear, dear, dear, dear.

(orchestra music) Quite a powerful speaker, sir.

It's a wonder you don't go into parliament.

>> Don't be angry, Uncle.

Come, dine with us tomorrow.

>> I'll see you.

>> But why, why?

>> Why did you get married?

>> Because I fell in love.

>> "Because I fell in," good evening.

>> You never came to see us before that happened, why give that as a reason for not coming now?

>> Good evening, sir!

>> But I want nothing from you, I ask nothing of you.

>> Well you won't get it, so you won't be disappointed, will you.

>> We've never had a quarrel to which I've been party, so why not let us part friends.

>> Good evening, sir!

>> Well, I'm sorry with all my heart you find this irrelevant, but I've made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humor to the last, so a Merry Christmas, Uncle!

>> Good evening, sir!

>> And a happy New Year!

>> Ebenezer: You're a noisy devil, that's what you are sir!

>> Merry Christmas, Bob Cratchit.

>> And the same to you sir, and many of them, and not forgetting your good lady, Mrs. Fred.

>> Thank you, Cratchit.

A merry Christmas to you!

A merry Christmas!

♪ Good King Wenceslaus looked out ♪ ♪ On the feast of Stephen ♪ When the snow lay round about ♪ ♪ Deep and crisp and even ♪ Brightly shone the moon that night ♪ ♪ Though the frost was cruel ♪ When a poor man came in sight ♪ (clock chiming) >> Ah!

Always ready and willing to quit your work, I notice.

>> Well, it's seven o'clock, sir.

>> Ebenezer: That clock's fast.

Well, I suppose you'll want all day off tomorrow, eh?

>> Well, sir, if it's quite convenient?

>> It isn't convenient.

It isn't fair.

If I was to stop half a crown for it, oh, you'd be mightily ill-used, I'll be bound wouldn't ya.

Don't think I'm ill-used do ya?

When I have to pay a whole day's wages for no work.

>> It only happens once a year, sir.

>> That's a pretty excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.

Well, I suppose you've got to have it.

Here, there's the key.

You see, sir, that you're here all the earlier next morning.

(gentle dramatic music) >> Good night sir, and a Merry Christmas.

>> Bah, humbug!

(slow perky music) (upbeat music) (children laughing) (slow gentle music) >> Not another bird like it.

And it's worth it's weight in gold, and it weighs a bit I can tell you too.

Merry Christmas, sir!

>> Bah, humbug!

(crowd chattering) (cane knocking) (door knocking) (slow upbeat music) >> Man: Merry Christmas to you, my boy.

>> Boy: Thank you sir, and same to you, sir.

(upbeat music) Oh!

>> Man: Thank you.

(majestic music) >> How do you do?

>> Good evening and a merry Christmas.

>> Child: Give us a penny.

>> Get out of this.

(children yelling) (upbeat music) (jello squeaking) >> Clean?

You call this clean?

>> Yes!

>> Well it isn't!

(children yelling) (gentle music) >> Hey, hey.

Tell them to stop that noise.

>> My Lord, will you make your speech now or will you let the ladies and gentlemen continue to enjoy themselves?

>> Call silence for the royal toast.

(fanfare music) >> My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, pray silence for the right honorable, the Lord Mayor of London.

My Lord.

(guests applauding) >> My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen.

(drum rolling) ♪ God save our gracious Queen ♪ Long live our noble Queen ♪ God save our Queen ♪ Send her victorious ♪ Happy and glorious ♪ Long to reign over us ♪ God save the Queen (guests cheering) (gentle tense music) (dog barking) (Ebenezer gasps) >> The Devil are you doing here?

Frightening people out of their wits?

(purposeful music) (symbol shimmering) (gentle mysterious music) (cane clattering) (suspenseful music) Ah!

Ah, humbug.

(rushing winds) (bucket clangs) Ah.

(gentle suspenseful music) (Ebenezer sneezing) (bell dinging) (bells ringing) (door slams) (tense music) (chains rattling) >> Jacob: Look, Ebenezer Scrooge, for only you can see me.

>> What you want with me?

>> Jacob: Much.

>> Who?

>> In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

>> In life?

Why do you trouble me?

>> Jacob: It is required of everyone that the spirit within him roared among his fellow men, and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Lies beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hall, so I cannot rest.

(chains rattling) I cannot stay.

Anger anywhere.

(chains rattling) >> You are fettered.

Why?

>> Jacob: I wear the chain I forged in life.

I made it link by link.

Would you know the weight and length of the coil you bear yourself?

>> Speak words of comfort to me, Jacob Marley.

Speak words of comfort.

>> Jacob: Comfort?

I have none to give.

I am here to warn you, to save you if that be possible.

>> To warn?

To save me?

From what?

>> Jacob: From such a fate as mine.

To wander through the world and witness what I cannot share, but might have shared on Earth and turned to happiness.

>> But, you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

Business!

(chains rattling) >> Jacob: Mankind should have been my business!

Charity, forbearance, benevolence.

All were my business, as they should be yours.

(chains rattling) Now heed me, for my time is short.

You will be haunted by three spirits.

Without their visit you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.

(chains rattling) You shall behold the visions of a Christmas past, a Christmas present, and a Christmas yet to come!

Expect the first when the clock strikes midnight tonight.

(chains rattling) >> Marley!

>> Jacob: Look to see me no more!

>> Marley!

(dramatic music) Marley!

(thunder crashing) Humbug- (window slamming) (suspenseful music) (clock chimes) >> 12 o'clock, and all's well.

12 o'clock, and all's well.

(eerie music) >> Christmas Past: I am the Spirit of Christmas Past.

I am here to show you the things that have been.

Look back beyond the gulf of vanished years.

>> The money is due and must be paid!

>> But, sir, that's impossible.

>> Then I shall have no alternative but to take immediate steps to recover it.

>> Man: But sir, you must see that if- >> That is the way I conduct my business!

>> You don't mean, sell us up?

>> That is precisely what I do mean.

>> Man: But sir!

I couldn't work in the hospital!

>> Mr. Scrooge, I beg of you!

>> Good day!

>> Woman: You can't do this!

You can't be so unjust.

>> Man: Give us a little more time, a week?

>> Woman: Please!

(gentle dramatic music) (dramatic music) >> Oh, Belle, I didn't hear you come in.

>> So it is true.

>> Ebenezer: What do you mean?

>> What they say.

That you are a man without pity, without remorse.

Who weighs everything in the scale of profit and loss.

>> Belle?

>> I heard!

I couldn't help hear.

>> But this is business.

If were to allow sentiment to enter this counting house, I should be in bankruptcy court within a year.

And as for that couple who had just gone out, well, I'll set your mind first about them.

Worthless, shiftless pair, who had my good money, now they want to avoid paying it back.

>> Your money!

(dramatic music) Your good money!

They asked your for a little breathing space, a little time in which to pay, that is all.

>> Enough of this, Belle.

I am ready to make allowances for your feelings as a woman.

But I must ask you to leave my business affairs alone.

When you marry me I shall insist... Have you taken leave of your senses?

>> I've tried hard not to believe what they've said about you.

I'd give anything not to believe it now.

But the evidence of my own eye and ears, I must believe!

You were not always so.

But I can see now that one passion and one passion only engrosses you!

Gain!

>> Ebenezer: How dare you.

Even if it were so I've not changed toward you.

>> You are changed.

Changed in every way!

You're not the man you were.

Our contracts an old one, made when we were poor and content to be so.

May you be happy, alone in the life you have chosen.

(somber music) >> Christmas Past: Now look and see the happiness you have missed.

♪ Here we come gathering nuts in May ♪ ♪ Nuts in May, nuts in May ♪ Here we come gathering nuts in May ♪ ♪ On a cold and frosty morning ♪ Here we come gathering nuts in May ♪ ♪ Nuts in May, nuts in May ♪ Here we come gathering nuts in May ♪ ♪ On a cold and frosty morning ♪ Ring-a-ring o' roses (Belle laughing) ♪ A pocket full of posies ♪ A-tishoo ♪ All fall down (children laughing) >> Hello!

>> Child: Look, it's Daddy!

It's Daddy!

(man laughing) (children chattering) >> Oh, by the way Belle, I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon.

>> Oh, who was it?

>> You guess.

>> How can I?

I don't know.

It wasn't Mr. Scrooge?

>> Mr. Scrooge it was.

I passed his office window, and as it was not shut up and there was a candle inside I could scarcely help see him.

His partner is on the point of death, I hear.

And there he sat, alone.

Quite alone in the world, I do believe.

♪ Chip chop, chip chop, ♪ The last man is dead >> Spirit, I cannot bear it, haunt me no more.

>> Christmas Past: I told (symbol shimmers) you these were the shadows of the things that have been, but they are what they are.

Do not blame me.

>> Take me back!

(slow paced music) (eerie music) It's one o'clock, I know it is.

(clock chiming) (mysterious music) (gentle harp music) >> Come in!

And know me better, man.

(upbeat music) I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Look upon me.

You have never seen the like of me before.

>> Ebenezer: Never.

>> Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family, meaning, for I am very young.

My elder brothers born in those later years.

>> I don't think I have.

I'm afraid I have not.

Have you many brothers spirit?

>> More than 1,800.

>> A tremendous family to provide for.

Spirit, conduct me where you will.

Already I have been forth under compulsion and learned a lesson which is working now.

If you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.

>> Touch my robe.

And you shall see how your poor clerk, with his paltry 15 schillings a week, which you so grudgingly doled out to him, keeps Christmas.

Touch my robe.

(upbeat organ music) >> Up you get, Tiny Tim.

(crowd yelling) (upbeat music) >> Ooh!

>> A boat!

>> Bob: Take one!

>> Thank you, father.

>> Mother, mother, mother!

We've been outside the baker's and we smelled a lovely goose cooking!

>> Yes, and we're sure it's ours.

>> Boy: Yes!

♪ A lovely goose, a lovely goose, a lovely goose ♪ >> Oh, what it is about your precious father then.

And your brother Tiny Tim, and his sister Martha?

One who's late last Christmas by half an hour.

>> Martha: Mother!

>> Oh, bless your heart, my dear!

(everyone chattering) >> Martha: I missed you all!

>> Merry Christmas!

>> Merry Christmas!

>> Martha: Why Peter!

>> Merry Christmas.

>> There there.

>> Martha: We'd a deal of work to finish up last night, and had to clear away this morning.

>> Woman: Well nevermind as long as you are, come.

Come and sit before the fire my dear and get you warm.

>> No, no here's farther!

Quick, Martha, hide!

Quick hide!

(women laughing) Quickly, quickly!

>> Bob: Here we are!

>> And how are you?

>> And where's our Martha?

>> She's not coming.

>> Not coming?

Not coming upon Christmas Day?

(children giggling) >> Yes, father dear, here I am.

>> Oh!

(all laughing) Oh, you all!

Oh, you!

(door knocking) >> That will be the goose!

(children cheering) I'll fetch it in!

(family chattering) >> Oh, but you're cold.

Come and sit down and warm a bit.

(children laughing) And how did Tiny Tim behave?

(gentle music) >> As good as gold, and better.

You know, somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard.

>> Yes.

>> He told me coming home, that he hoped the people in the church saw him because he was a cripple, and that it might be pleasant for them to remember upon a Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.

(majestic music) But he's growing stronger.

Yes, growing strong and hearty.

>> I wish I could believe you, Bob.

But I'm afraid.

>> Hurray!

(all cheering) (upbeat music) >> There never was such a goose!

There will never be such a goose!

>> Never!

>> Bob, please say grace.

>> For what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful.

>> All: Amen.

>> Bob: It's splendid, I can already vouch for it!

>> Children: Yay!

>> And it's flavor will I know surpass my upmost expectations.

>> Children: Yay!

>> With a mashed potato!

>> Children: Oh!

>> And the apple sauce!

>> Children: Ah!

>> It will I am sure, present a delightful combination that we shall remember till our dying day.

>> Children: Yay!

>> Bob: Delicious, delicious.

That's the best goose we ever had, mother.

>> Yes, indeed.

>> Oh, yes.

>> Child: Oh, I've eaten too much!

>> Mrs. Cratchit: And even now, (knife tapping) we haven't eaten at all.

(all laughing) (Ebenezer chuckling) >> You laugh?

>> Laugh?

I envy them.

(gentle music) Spirit, tell me that Tiny Tim will live.

>> I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner, a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.

If these shadows remain unaltered in the future, the child will die.

>> Oh, tell me that he'll be spared.

>> If he is like to die, had he not better do it, and decrease the surplus population?

>> My own words.

>> I give you a toast.

I give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast.

>> The founder of the feast indeed?

I wish I had him here, I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.

>> But my dear, the children, Christmas Day.

>> Should be Christmas Day, I'm sure, on which one drinks to the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man such as Mr. Scrooge.

You know he is, Robert.

Nobody knows him better than you do, poor fellow.

>> My dear, Christmas Day.

>> Well I'll drink his health for your sake and the days, not his.

He'll be very merry and very happy, I've no doubt.

Here's Mr. Scrooge's health.

>> Now children, all together, Mr. Scrooge's health.

>> All: Mr. Scrooges health!

>> Mr. Scrooge's health.

>> And now, Tiny Tim will sing to us.

>> Mrs. Cratchit: Yes, Tiny, do sing.

>> What shall I sing?

>> Child: "Hark!

The Herald Angels".

>> Mrs. Cratchit: Yes, "Hark!

The Herald Angels".

♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ Glory to the new-born king ♪ Peace on earth, and mercy mild ♪ ♪ God and sinners reconciled >> Come now, and see how others keep Christmas.

♪ Join the triumph of the skies ♪ ♪ With the angelic host proclaim ♪ ♪ Christ is born in Bethlehem ♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ Glory to the new-born king ♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ Glory to the new-born king (Ebenezer grunting) (brooding mysterious music) >> Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen.

You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not been, but will be in the time to come.

And as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company.

(people chattering) (people laughing) >> I don't know much about it either way, I only know he's dead.

>> When did he die?

>> Last night I believe.

>> Man: Why, what was the matter with him?

I thought he'd never die!

(men chuckling) >> Heaven knows!

>> [What's he done with his money?

>> Left it to his company, perhaps.

He hasn't left for to me, that's all I know.

(men laughing) >> How are you?

>> Man: Very well, how are you?

>> So old Nick has got his own at last.

>> Man: So I'm told.

Cold isn't it?

>> Seasonable for Christmas time.

>> You're not a skater, I suppose?

>> Oh no, no, I've got something else to think about.

(men laughing) >> I do not see myself in my accustomed place.

Where am I?

Why am I not there?

(somber music) >> Don't stand there staring as if you were afraid, woman.

Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like this?

Not a dead man, I suppose.

>> Open this bundle old Joe and let me know the value of it.

I aint afraid to be the first nor afraid for them to see it.

(gentle music) (women chuckling) >> There's your account.

I wouldn't give another sixpence.

>> Now mine, Joe.

>> Pah!

>> Eight schillings.

I always give too much to ladies.

It's a weakness of mine.

(Joe laughs) >> And now on to my bundle, Joe.

(dramatic music) >> Bed curtains.

>> Ah.

(woman chuckles) Bed curtains.

>> You don't mean to say you took them down, rings and all, with him lying there?

>> Why not?

>> You was born to make your fortune, and you will certainly do it.

>> Here, don't drop the oil on the blankets!

>> His blankets?

>> Who else's?

He isn't likely to take cold without them, I dare say.

(woman chuckling) >> Hope he didn't die of anything catching.

>> Oh, don't you be afraid of that.

Ah, you can look through that shirt until your eyes ache and you won't find a hole in it.

It's the best he had.

It'd been wasted if it hadn't been for me.

>> Joe: What do you call wasting of it?

>> Putting it on him to be buried in, to be sure.

I took it off him.

(woman laughs) Calico's just as becoming to the body.

He couldn't have looked uglier than he did in that one!

(all laughing) >> Woman: This is the end of it you see.

He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!

>> I see, I see.

(symbol shimmers) The case of this unhappy man might be my own.

My life tends that way now.

(dramatic music) Merciful heavens!

What is that?

Is this the man they spoke of?

Neglected.

Robbed.

Hated.

Can you not show me some tenderness connected with death?

(somber music) My little child.

(angelic choir music) >> Tiny Tim.

Thy childish essence was from God.

(door clicking) >> I met Mr. Scrooge's nephew today, and he said to me, "I'm heartily sorry for you Mr. Cratchit, "and heartily sorry for your good wife."

Though, how he knew that I don't know.

>> Knew what my dear?

>> Why, that you were a good wife.

>> Boy: Everybody knows that.

>> Well observed, my boy.

And he said, "If there is any service that I can do for you, "pray come to me."

It almost seemed as though he had known our Tiny Tim and felt with us.

And I'm sure (solemn music) we shall none of us forget him, nor this first parting there has been among us.

>> Mrs. Cratchit: Never, father.

>> And I know that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was, although he was but a little child, we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.

>> Mrs. Cratchit: No, father.

>> I'm very happy.

Very happy.

>> Now spirit tell me, what man that was whom we saw lying dead?

(somber music) 'Fore I draw nearer to the stone at which you point.

Tell me, are these the shadows of the things that will be?

Or are they the shadows of the things that may be, only?

Ebenezer Scrooge!

Am I that man who lay upon the bed?

No spirit, no!

I'll not be the man I was!

I'll not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse!

Why show me this if it is all too late?

Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year!

I will live in the past, the present, and the future.

The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

No, no!

No, no!

(dramatic music) (Ebenezer groaning) (relaxed music) Oh.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future.

Oh, Jacob Marley, heaven and Christmas time be praised for this!

Thank you.

On me knees I thank you, Jacob.

On me knees.

(Ebenezer gasping) They're not torn down!

(Ebenezer laughs) They're not torn down!

(door knocking) Ah, the shadows of things that would have been may be dispelled, they will!

(fast upbeat music) They will!

Ah, they will!

They will!

(door knocking) (jaunty music) A Merry Christmas!

God bless ya!

(perky music) Oh, I don't know what to do!

I'm as happy as a schoolboy, I'm as merry as an angel.

I'm as giddy as a drunken man!

Oh, merry Christmas to everyone!

Happy New Year to all the world!

Woo hoo!

(Ebenezer laughs) Oh, here, here!

Here's the saucepan that the gruel was in.

Yes, and there's the door that old Marley's ghost came through!

Yes, it's all right, it's all true!

It all happened!

Oh, hooray, hooray!

(blinds clattering) (window creaking) Ah, glorious, glorious!

Hey, boy!

Hey, a merry Christmas!

It is Christmas Day isn't it?

>> Why, of course!

>> Ah, I knew I hadn't missed it!

Oh, the spirits have done it all in one night!

Hey, do you know the poulterer's at the corner of the street next but one?

>> Boy: I should hope I did.

>> An intelligent boy, a remarkable boy!

Do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that they had hanging there?

>> It'll be hanging there now.

>> Ebenezer: Well you go and buy it.

>> Walk-er!

>> No, no, no, I'm in earnest!

You go and buy it and bring it back here, and I'll tell you where to take it.

And you come back with the man and I'll give you a schilling.

You come back in less than five minutes and I'll give you half a crown!

>> Hooray!

(upbeat music) Hey!

Hey, mister!

Hey!

Mister!

Hey!

>> Bless me, you can't carry that to the Cratchit's.

You'll have to have a cab.

Here you are my boy, there's the address, and there's the money.

And there's the money for you.

Very kind of you to have brought it round.

(gentle upbeat music) Ah, merry Christmas my dear.

>> Woman: Thank you, sir, the same to you.

>> Who's that won't come and dine with you?

>> Uncle Scrooge!

(all laughing) Still, was no consequence, he won't lose much over dinner.

>> Indeed.

Well I think he'll lose a very good dinner.

(all laughing) (door knocking) >> Ebenezer: Is your master in, my dear?

>> Yes sir.

>> Ebenezer: Can I see him my love?

>> He's in the dining room sir, I'll show you in.

>> He knows me.

He knows me.

>> You sit there.

Thank you.

You sit here beside me.

(guests chattering) >> Fred.

>> Bless my soul, who's this?

>> It is I, your Uncle Scrooge.

I've come to dinner.

Will you let me in, Fred?

>> Why, it's Uncle Scrooge, it can't be.

Will I?

A merry Christmas to you Uncle!

Come in.

Come in and join us!

>> Welcome Uncle, and a merry Christmas.

>> Thank you, my dear.

A merry Christmas to you all.

>> All: A merry Christmas.

♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ Glory to the new-born king ♪ Peace on earth, and mercy mild ♪ (upbeat music) >> You'll be late for the office, Bob.

It's nearly nine o'clock.

You promised Mr. Scrooge you'll be in earlier than usual this morning.

>> (coughs) So I did, so I did.

Thank you.

Bye, my dear.

Goodbye, my darling.

Goodbye, my darlings.

(children chattering) (suspenseful music) >> Mr. Cratchit, sir!

What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?

>> I'm very sorry, sir.

I am behind my time.

>> I think you are, sir.

I think you are.

>> It's only once a year sir.

It shan't be repeated.

I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.

>> So I'll tell you what it is my fine fella.

I'm not going to stand it any longer!

And therefore!

Therefore!

>> Sir- >> Ebenezer: I'm going to raise your salary!

>> Sir!

You must be joking!

>> Never more serious in all my life, boy.

I'm going to raise your salary, and as for Tiny Tim, I'll be a second father to him.

>> Oh, God bless you.

>> Well no more work today Bob, no work today.

Make haste to your family, Bob.

They'll be wanting you today Bob.

They'll be wanting you today.

A merry Christmas, Bob.

A merrier Christmas, my good fellow, than I've given you for many a year.

Go on now.

Go on!

>> Bob: Thank you, thank you!

>> Merry Christmas to all the world.

Happy New Year to everyone!

God bless us all!

God bless us everyone!

♪ And mercy mild ♪ God and sinners reconciled ♪ Joyful, all ye nations, rise ♪ Join the triumph of the skies ♪ ♪ With th' angelic host proclaim ♪ ♪ Christ is born in Bethlehem ♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ Glory to the new-born king (majestic orchestral music) You know, it's Christmas time, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Hey, it's Kris and Uncle Ebenezer, and we're still down here in the basement where, you know, I got to say, it's a little chilly.

I'm just going to say it.

Quit your bellyaching.

Get this thing rolling.

Like Bob, you and your family might be celebrating the holidays with families, which is a great time to watch old movies together.

Your turn, Uncle Ebenezer.

Why don't you let them know how they can do all that stuff?

Well, if you have all your work done, you can watch these movies through the PBS App on your smart TV, computer or device.

And you can watch the movies on PBS Fort Wayne YouTube channel and all for free.

Hey, my favorite word.

Should people waste their time tuning in next week?

That's much.

Yeah, they should, of course.

Absolutely.

Because next time around we have Fear in the Night starring DeForest Kelley and Paul Kelly.

And more importantly, we'll have a new guest host that may just be a little more agreeable.

More importantly, I'm agreeable.

Okay.

All right.

Tune in next week for Subterranean Cinema only on PBS Fort Wayne.

You didn't turn up the Heat, did you?

Aren't you supposed to be happier now?

I mean, you got.

You did mind your own business.

Okay, fine.