Edison’s 1910 version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was not the first film adaptation of this popular story of a Christmas transformation, but good copies of this 11 minute classic exist in the digital realm, as seen here on YouTube.

It’s interesting that the better known Scrooge treatments, my favorite, the 1938 version with Reginald Owen as Scrooge and Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits, and the 1951 version with Alastair Sim as Scrooge, seem to have picked up ideas from the 1910 production.

Wikipedia documents over 20 film adaptations of Dickens’ 1843 classic.

Dickens was an incisive social commentator.  Considering the current economic and political conditions in the USA and the world, his books may make for some good wintertime reading.