[Blindtlk] Christmas Movies

Sun Nov 26 04:29:40 CST 2006

Has anyone seen "An American Christmas Carol" with Henry Winkler?  It is a
very nice re-telling/americanization of "A Christmas Carol" with Winkler as
the Scrooge-like Character.  Not sure if it's available on DVD or not.
Winkler's ability to act goes *WAY* beond the fonz. *SMILE*

Alan Wheeler
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Danielsen
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies

When I was a kid, my favorite Christmas special was the Jim Henson creation
Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. I just looked online and it's now available
on DVD, so I may have to pick it up. I've read that it's not the best Jim
Henson production from a technical standpoint, but I always thought the
story was nice and the songs were great. I watch gene Shepherd's A Christmas
Story every year at least once, and it never fails to make me laugh, never. 
I don't even mind the reference to blindness, because it's so obviously
intended to be melodramatic. 'so many great lines: Randy in the snow suit
screaming "I can't put my arms down!"; Ralphie's dad (Darren McGavin should
have won an Oscar) reading the label on the crate containing his "major
award": "Fra-gee-lay! Must be Italian!" and on seeing Ralphie's horrid bunny
suit from his Aunt Clara: "He looks like a deranged Easter bunny."; and of
course Gene Shepherd's hilarious narration throughout: "Schwartz committed a
slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going directly
for the throat!" and regarding the bully Scott Farcas: "He had yellow eyes! 
So help me God, yellow eyes!" I also love It's a Wonderful Life, and not
just because of its Christmassy ending but because it's terrifically acted
throughout and confronts hardship and fear and George Bailey's resentment at
being stuck in his hometown  in a realistic way but still ends on a
life-affirming note. In fact, the ending is all the more special when you
realize how dark the rest of the movie is. Okay, enough from me.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at earthlink.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies

>I have the original 1951 version on DVD. the one I want to find is the one
> called American Christmas carol, set during the depression, with Henry
> Winkler playing Benedict slade, the scrooge character.  I like that one 
> very
> much.  Last year I asked all my friends who were curious about Christmas
> wishes to give me Christmas movies, and I got a slew of them.  All the 
> Bing
> Crosby ones, the Gene Shepherd Christmas story, the classic cartoons,
> Rudolph, Santa and Frosty, the original Christmas carol, and something 
> else.
> It's about time to dig them out and have a marathon.  They are all on DVD,
> and none have DVS, but I don't really care much for DVS, unless I can turn
> it off, and I know most of those movies far too well.
>
> Sherry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Miller
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 8:40 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>
> I remember the George C. Scott version from when I was in London in 1985. 
> I
> was there over Christmas, waiting for a ski trip to Austria to begin, and 
> I
> was sick as a dog.
>
> The hotel I was staying in had only a few TV channels, and as I was too 
> sick
> to go anywhere for a solid 24 hours, I watched the channel with the George
> C. Scott version of A Christmas Carole about a hundred times.  I was 
> fevered
> and kind of out of it -- a very surreal experience.
>
> I also really like the Muppett Christmas Carole with Michael Cain -- very
> funny, and not too far from the original, actually.
>
> Brian  M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:58 PM
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>
>
>> Hello Ray and  listers,
>>
>> We have that version in our video collection too. It's considered to be
> the
>> classic version of A Christmas Carol for the reasons you gave. We were
> drawn
>> to the 1984 version starring George C. Scott from having seen it on
>> television, and by being able to purchase it with DVS. If it's not the
> most
>> faithful to the book it's a close second.
>>
>> Peter Donahue----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 5:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>
>>
>> Got news for y'all.  There is no more accurate interpretation of the 
>> story
>> "A Christmas Carol" than the 1951 movie version which stars Allister Sims
> as
>> Scrooge.  That version is the most faithful to the book which there ever
>> was.  There has never been a better version before or since.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>> The Constantly Barefooted,
>> Ray
>> Home phone and fax:
>> (985)853-0139
>> E-mail:
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>> Skype Name:
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>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray
>>
>> God bless President George W. Bush!
>> God bless our troops!
>> and God bless America
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 5:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>
>>
>> Hello Judy  and listers,
>>
>>     And don't forget to gather the family around the radio, or the home
>> theater to listen to the Campbell Playhouse's Production of A Christmas
>> Carol starring Orson Wells, and Lionel Barrymore. As for the film side of
>> Christmas there's Miracle On 34th Street, A Christmas Carol starring
> George
>> C. Scott as Scrooge, and It's a Wonderful Life with none other than Jimmy
>> Stewart as George Bailey, and Lionel Barrymore as the villainous Mr. 
>> Henry
>> S. Potter. We'll be watching It's A Wonderful Life later tonight as I 
>> just
>> bought it on DVD this afternoon. In the animation department How the
> Grinch
>> Stold Christmas stands head and shoulders above them all with Rudolph the
>> Red Nosed Reindeer, (The 1964 version) by it's side.  Concerning recent
>> Christmas movies The Polar Express will be chugging in to an I-Max 
>> theater
>> near you soon if it's not there all ready. We're anticipating the launch
> of
>> The Nativity Story and plan to see it once it begins playing. It's
> supposed
>> to begin playing in theaters on December First. A wonderful topic for a
>> future Christmas film would be one about a little known event that
> occurred
>> during World War I; the Christmas Truce of 1914. The History Channel
>> produced a documentary about it, but it would be a great topic for a
>> full-length holiday movie.
>>
>> Peter Donahue
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Judy Jones" <nfbwatac at earthlink.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>
>>
>> Hi, Kasondra and list,
>>
>> Another thing we do is--Chris and I are Oldtime radio fanatics, and each
>> year we listen to The Cinnamon Bear.  You can download at www.rusc.com.
>> There may be other places, too, am not sure.  However, it's a kids serial
>> that was first aired in 1937, and you listen to an episode a day, which
>> finishes on Christmas Eve.
>>
>> I'll admit it, it's easy to be a kid at heart around Christmas.
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kasondra Payne" <Kassyp36 at msn.com>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 1:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>
>>
>> >I love Christmas!  We play Christmas music and do all the usual things.
> We
>> > can't use real trees because my husband, Shawn, is allergic to pine
>> > needles.
>> > We have a tree that we usually put up.  We put the ornaments up, and
> tell
>> > the stories of how we got each one.  Two of my children are blind, and 
>> > I
>> > want both of them to fully experience the holiday season.  I always
> have,
>> > and there is no reason  why blindness should limit a persons joy in 
>> > this
>> > season.
>> >
>> > Kasondra Payne
>> >
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