For FRIDAY, 21 December 2007

SCROOGE

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In keeping with the holiday season, we'll make merry by watching Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 1970), the screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas story, A Christmas Carol. We'll use this film to study mise-en-scene, the use of scope and wide-angle (deep focus) lens, and art direction (considered part of mise-en-scene).
    Since Scrooge is a musical adaptation of Dickens' classic, we'll also consider the staging of songs in a musical.
    Here we can observe the staging of one of the songs ("I Hate People"), when Scrooge tries to avoid bumping into another pedestrian (above, left).
    Right is a slide capture of the dolly shot that introduces the Ghost of Christmas Present over a spread of food.

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