Magic Kingdom Emporium Windows, December 1983
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!
4 comments:
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So 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.
1) I like how the stockings hung on the fireplace are, apparently, hand knitted.
2) 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?
Thanks you, Lou, Sue, and Major, too!
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