Today I have the third installment of 1983 photos shared with us by Sue B, and taken by her dad, Lou Perry. These are especially great because Lou took pictures of the windows of The Emporium (I believe), which featured wonderful dioramas of scenes from the new animated featurette, "Mickey's Christmas Carol" - a film that I quite like (it's hard to ruin the Dickens classic). This was the first original film starring Mickey Mouse since 1953! I really enjoy the way other characters from the Disney library are used throughout the story.
First up we see Mickey and Morty Mouse (as Tiny Tim). They are poor, but happy!
Ebenezer is visited by Jacob Marley one fateful night. It was not a fragment of undigested potato, but a real (and goofy) ghost!
Over in Scrooge's counting house, Bob Cratchit (Mickey) and Fred (Donald) plan for their day off and big Christmas bonuses!
Scrooge was in love with Isabelle (Daisy Duck) in his younger days. But Scrooge loved money even more!
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim walk the snowy streets of London.
Morty was always a forgotten character, it's nice that he got a plum role as Tiny Tim in the film.
I guess we skipped some of the other windows (I've seen photos of them elsewhere), like the famous Kung Fu fight, but it looks like we're at the happy ending. Tiny Tim will live! A single strand of threaded popcorn adorns the spindly tree.
Scrooge has learned his lesson, and brings gifts and food, along with a raise and promotion for Bob Cratchit.
I love seeing these fantastic Emporium windows! THANK YOU to Lou and Sue for sharing these!
Major-
ReplyDeleteSo much fun to see these great tableaus, again.
Thank you Lou and Sue.
Disneyland’s Emporium featured almost identical windows displays …. (Florida’s had higher and deeper vignettes). The Disneyland version of Scrooge and Goofy as Jacob Marley , was re-exhibited in the front of Mickey’s Christmas Chalet in fantasyland once the emporium exhibit has been changed over. It’s neat to see these vignettes again.
ReplyDelete1) I like how the stockings hung on the fireplace are, apparently, hand knitted.
ReplyDelete2) Excellent character construction and posing here. Looks like they used a small tackle box or toolbox for one of Goofy-Marley's chests of greediness.
...6) "Morty was always a forgotten character." I don't remember Morty at all! What was he in prior to "Mickey's Christmas Carol"?
The Disney folks did a really good job on these windows. And Lou did really good job capturing them on film. So thank you, Lou. And Sue. And Major.
I remember these scenes in Disneyland's Emporium. I also remember seeing the film/short in the theater, along with the first theatrical re-release of "The Rescuers." I wonder why they didn't choose Ferdie to play the part of Tiny Tim?
ReplyDeleteThanks you, Lou, Sue, and Major, too!
HUEY , DEWY & LOUIE, MORTY & FERDIE , APRIL, MAY & JUNE ( Daisy’s nieces) were mostly comic and book characters but animators and artists who drew them always says there was not way or intention of telling them apart …they were the same personalities multiplied . It wasn’t until the 1990’s the Disney Stores merchandise designers felt the need to identify Huey , Dewy and Louie by specific shirt colors and their first initials embroidered near the collar . In most vintage Disneyland appearances and Wonderful World of Disney animation Donald’s nephews usually wear the same style and color shirts and hats . I’m not sure if in Duck Tales they identify the specific nephews by character differences. Also I’m not aware of the names of Minnie’s nieces … or even if they have names (???)
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting bit is that in many animated shorts of the 1950’s and 60’s , Goofy is identified as GEORGE GEEF ( George Geef the Goof) and his son sometimes as MAX GEEF.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful. I don’t recall this movie at all, but to be fair, I was in college at that time and had no Disney connections then.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lou, Sue and Major for the Christmas cheer!
JG
Nanook, the Emporium windows have always been favorites of mine!
ReplyDeleteMike Cozart, I am not surprised that Disneyland had similar displays, since Mickey’s Christmas Carol was a pretty big deal at the time.
JB, good point, those stockings really help with the “hand made” quality. I think that the figures were no more than maybe 15 inches tall (maybe taller for Goofy), so that would have to be a tiny tackle box! Morty was more of a comics character - I can’t remember if Mickey had kids (or even nephews) in any of the animated cartoons.
TokyoMagic!, Ferdie was a drunk and very difficult!
Mike Cozart, see my comment to JB! I used to watch “Duck Tales” after school, but honestly couldn’t tell you if there was any personality differences between Huey, Dewy, or Louis. In fact I couldn’t tell you which was which based on their shirt colors, though I am sure there are many who could! I didn’t even remember that Minnie had nieces, but that might have happened when I was older and not paying as much attention to such things.
Mike Cozart, I remember that. How in the world did they come up with that name, of all things?
JG, the movie is pretty good - of course it’s hard to ruin that great Dickens tale. It’s neat to see so many Disney characters, such as Willie the giant (as the Ghost of Christmas Present), Pete (no pegleg), etc. And the animation is respectable, I forget if that was when they were training younger folks to take over for the Nine Old Men.
The Duck tales show definitely cemented the red/green/blue standards for Huey Dewey and Louie. They also had different voice actors, but personalities weren't that distinct. "Rambunctious boys getting into trouble" was the main thing for all of them.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Goofy had a son before that 1990s Goof Troop show. They did keep his name as Max, though.
Dean Finder, yeah, I don't think they ever even attempted to give the nephews distinct characteristics. "Louie is a kleptomaniac. Dewey has intimacy issues!" And so on. I'm not sure when I learned about Goofy's son, maybe it wasn't until the Goofy Movie.
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