tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91310563329112217272024-03-13T13:22:52.510+00:00Historical PhotosDifferent images plucked from the history archives and placed on a blog.Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-13756021754828059722023-08-14T08:58:00.005+01:002023-08-14T09:02:29.216+01:00<h1 style="text-align: center;"> Trench foot warning posters! WW1</h1><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZribiPYSKIzf_edaNrcbRZzKuGeomH-Rqzk0ojJSSs7ogukbjFXgUiTcqDqcjblS1hDBagWevHgCJ3qsC5QCISthqxpt_mf5LyfFdRMZQA0h3lVxPBItY_y7JFq3g9vNGur0H2g9EOcGsqZB9TslklRWnc_Gq0EjRp9mlJbBWisKHuafK-0LTRi5y9wXU/s732/Trench-Foot-picture.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZribiPYSKIzf_edaNrcbRZzKuGeomH-Rqzk0ojJSSs7ogukbjFXgUiTcqDqcjblS1hDBagWevHgCJ3qsC5QCISthqxpt_mf5LyfFdRMZQA0h3lVxPBItY_y7JFq3g9vNGur0H2g9EOcGsqZB9TslklRWnc_Gq0EjRp9mlJbBWisKHuafK-0LTRi5y9wXU/s320/Trench-Foot-picture.jpg" width="219" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WW1 Poster</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yoUW3_k9bEci6yBGGLIe9RhAPMrSYhnB1cbXIz1Oe8PxkLLWUD_En-cGieyPH44Z7p6mcyUM0VZa1NUu2BSfEpL6yblZMyV6_3gxKSgV0WAjm-Qkp5YfbZgwCQqnOKfEXZvJCkF-d_LsessWRqZI6rNlHyLDysUPq-HIe2_ActM8g2ZMeiInF5nSIw8f/s400/TRench%20boots.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yoUW3_k9bEci6yBGGLIe9RhAPMrSYhnB1cbXIz1Oe8PxkLLWUD_En-cGieyPH44Z7p6mcyUM0VZa1NUu2BSfEpL6yblZMyV6_3gxKSgV0WAjm-Qkp5YfbZgwCQqnOKfEXZvJCkF-d_LsessWRqZI6rNlHyLDysUPq-HIe2_ActM8g2ZMeiInF5nSIw8f/s320/TRench%20boots.jpg" width="230" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WW1 Poster</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-line-clamp: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 22px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="l_ecrd_txt_pln"><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple of WW1 posters warning of the effecting of Trench foot and looking after your boots and Feet! </span></span></p><span class="l_ecrd_txt_pln" style="font-size: large;">Trench foot first became a common problem among troops a</span><span class="l_ecrd_txt_pln" style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>as they stood in muddy trenches for long hours in water-soaked socks and boots. </span><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="l_ecrd_txt_lnk b_ignbt l_ecrd_txt_hover l_ecrd_hovblk_6_8 l_ecrd_hov_hitbox" h="ID=SERP,5907.1" hover-data="-" href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=b1e774d1f165151fJmltdHM9MTY5MTk3MTIwMCZpZ3VpZD0xMmU3NTE0Ni0xMzM1LTZjMzktMjgwNS00M2YzMTI0ZjZkZTUmaW5zaWQ9NTkwNw&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=12e75146-1335-6c39-2805-43f3124f6de5&psq=Trench+Foot+during+WW1&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZG9jdG9yc2hlYWx0aHByZXNzLmNvbS90cmVuY2gtZm9vdC8jOn46dGV4dD1UcmVuY2glMjBmb290JTIwZmlyc3QlMjBiZWNhbWUlMjBhJTIwY29tbW9u&ntb=1" style="background-color: #f6eeee; color: #444444; display: inline; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div></div>Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-23598665122243704322020-08-11T10:04:00.005+01:002020-08-11T10:12:42.867+01:00Soldiers Parade with town village (Film Still)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6y7KIt1PUG_yyvmwZ3zdbBxKeiZeRDkHg5BaRO2f_eQkYyCDUJM2Va0FVRIgTROP-LhJJh-kXGKSmy3IEyiywETxIxDdCgHowICfA1KMNHIQgmAWjpyh5HDXURqB_gopEBfZZ9-MfoSW/s1200/Parade.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6y7KIt1PUG_yyvmwZ3zdbBxKeiZeRDkHg5BaRO2f_eQkYyCDUJM2Va0FVRIgTROP-LhJJh-kXGKSmy3IEyiywETxIxDdCgHowICfA1KMNHIQgmAWjpyh5HDXURqB_gopEBfZZ9-MfoSW/s640/Parade.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="" style="background-color: black; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; text-align: left;">Film still from “The Big Parade” (1925).</span></div><p></p>Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-51003888121617845652016-11-17T11:03:00.000+00:002016-11-17T11:03:56.122+00:00Coney Island: Luna Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Luna park Coney Island 1910-1915</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-13443537612999434732016-11-15T12:20:00.000+00:002016-11-15T12:20:35.454+00:00Somme 2016 - Poppies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2016 a field in the Somme</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-41466966017334469752014-07-08T21:54:00.000+01:002014-07-08T21:54:00.028+01:00Tour de France: A look back at the past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mountain stages used to be a little different on the tour , similar routes just the road conditions might have resulted in a few punctures these days. Picturesque mountains in the background. </div>
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The 1928 Tour passing through a village, women waiting to cross the road. Again the roads look in poor condition but the riders don't seem to be going too fast here.</div>
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Running repairs, bit of grease from a man hanging out of a support car. Health & Safety in full force. </div>
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Only a few years old the Tour was growing in popularity and as we see above the 1906 was attracting lots of spectators through a French town.</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-6510359879188011062014-06-23T19:41:00.000+01:002014-06-23T19:41:00.084+01:00World Cup 1950: Brazil vs Uruguay<br />
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As another Football World cup takes place we look back at the 1950 match between Brazil vs Uruguay. An amazing photo showing so much detail of the players and crowd. Look at the shot seemingly goal-word bound with defending holding up their arms in protest. </div>
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Those were the days when the fans would pack in so tight. The legs of the people dangling down over the advertising signs. </div>
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Ohh yes, this was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_v_Brazil_%281950_FIFA_World_Cup%29">final</a>. Just the 173,000 people in attendance. </div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-44295449985487851382014-06-05T20:30:00.000+01:002014-06-05T20:30:01.643+01:00WW2 Destruction: Caen & Saint-Lô France, Cologne Germany<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Caen, France 1944. Ariel shot of the city showing the devastation left by WW2 and the German invasion.</div>
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<span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The German city of Cologne 1945, which was destroyed by Allied carpet bombing. In the center is seen the famous Cologne Cathedral</span></div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-85823105122354083532014-06-03T19:43:00.000+01:002014-06-03T19:43:00.042+01:00London 1900's: Kensington & Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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London 1901. Bangor Street was in the potteries district of Kensington, where a Rag
Fair was held. In the early 20th century it was a more renouned street
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A muffin seller in London early 1900s. Bell to help sell the muffins on the streets.</div>
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A flight of bombing planes 1st Australians flying corpse, Palestine.</div>
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A crashed British plane that looks in good condition - other photos show
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Douglas Fairbanks holding up Charlie Chaplin in front of crowd to promote Liberty Bonds, Lower Manhattan, NYC , 1918. As you can see there was a rather large crowd here! </span></div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-88079002609215876362014-05-12T20:00:00.000+01:002014-05-12T20:00:00.609+01:00WW1 Movies: La Grande Illusion, The Road to Glory.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">La Grande Illusion</span></span></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;">is a 1937 French film about a German POW camp.</span></span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Always interesting watching non-english WW1 movies and their prospective on how things unfolded.</span></span></h1>
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Spanish clearing up some of the mess left on the battlefield at the Somme. A few things we notice similair to many other Somme photos is the total destruction of the landscape, boggy, mud, awful conditions for anyone.</div>
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Sadly not the best of photos but it convays over to us the reality of the Somme and other battlefields in WW1. Wire fence behind the water filled trench where lancfusiliers are patrolling. Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-12419433867946301192014-03-07T20:19:00.000+00:002014-03-07T20:19:00.039+00:00WW2: London Bombing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1940 WW2, London Docklands. The German bombing of England was more frequent and cities and towns up and down the country were beginning to witness nightly attacks. Here we see Docklands terrace housing area where bombs have completely destroyed a street, total destruction.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">American soliders returning home on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_%281906%29">Agamemnon</a>, Hoboken, New Jersey after WW1. I think there is room for one or two more soliders on deck :)</span></div>
<br />Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-25318641151168971912014-02-26T20:39:00.000+00:002014-02-26T20:39:00.660+00:00China Town: San Fransisco 1899<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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San Francisco's Ross Alley, "Street of the Gamblers"by Arnold Genthe.</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-6810190208304090762014-02-12T19:10:00.000+00:002014-02-12T19:10:00.552+00:00WW1: Fake trees on the battlefield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/how-bizarre-fake-spy-trees-appeared-in-no-mans-land-during-wwi-and-killed-hundreds-of-soldiers.html">War History Online</a> I am now aware that fake trees were used in WW1. Not sure I would liked to be the person who has to be stuck inside one when it was behind enemy lines! Did they use a radio to send back intelligence? As you see the entrance to the tree was under ground level and normally well covered up.<br />
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Allied soldiers discover a fake tree entrance hole. You can see the huge stump next to this too, most probably planted in a large wood before bombs decimated the rest of the real trees. You just have to see Flanders fields to know what they ended up like. </div>
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Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-70994309752151803062014-01-28T19:53:00.000+00:002014-01-28T19:53:00.364+00:00WW2 Trench life: Well and truly dug in!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Seen plenty of Trench photo's from across WW1 & WW2 but I really like this one. You can see from the dug out alcoves that this has been a home for soilders for a good period of time. Well dug out shelters to avoid not only gunfire but the weather conditions. Also it looks very dry, not the usual mud bath that we normally see across European trenches. The soliders seem relaxed, most of the gear laid out across the floor and trench walls. Again this would make me believe it was not a front line trench but prehaps a secondry one a few hundred yards from the action.</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-87508385125454706922014-01-20T21:11:00.000+00:002014-01-20T21:11:00.017+00:00WW1 Women in work: War Correspondents, Bomb Factory<br />
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Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-64294427772391981822014-01-15T21:38:00.000+00:002014-01-15T21:38:00.045+00:00WW1 Propaganda Posters: Travel the World, Eat more cottage cheese<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Times change and in the early 1900's only the very fortunate, middle class and rich actually went on holidays. So a key plus for recruiting so called 'normal' infantry was the chance for them to travel around the world. Although most would end up in a small part of Europe in a wet trench.</div>
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Changing peoples diet was essential in maintaining resources going to the front line and keeping up the War effort. Explaining that eating less meat and viable alternatives such as cottage cheese can provide the protein needed. </div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-32476125794711957902014-01-14T21:19:00.000+00:002014-01-14T21:19:00.384+00:00WW1 Propaganda: German cage, Australians Arise.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a change I have selected a German WW1 propaganda poster. It shows the British Lion caged, crying and weak. This would give the impression to the Germans that we were there for the taking, swept under Germans power. </div>
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Australia played a huge part in WW1 & WW2, both in political influence and sending huge amounts of troops to fight. We can see by the poster that the fear of being 'Germanised' would have been key to recruiting for battle.</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-51267664227460131342014-01-07T20:37:00.000+00:002014-01-07T20:37:00.039+00:001800's Photos: Logging, trains and spiked suits.<br />
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Logging North America late 1800s. As we can see two horses are meant to pull a whole lot of wood and men on a slay across icy/winter ground. Not sure about how safe the load looks! I am sure they knew what they were doing.</div>
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It seems a rather bizarre suit at first, what on earth could be its purpose of this in the 1800s? It was made of leather and had huge spikes attached. Hunters specifically hunters where bears roamed would wear these to protect themselves and warn off any bears having a swipe at them. The spikes would make sure they did not do it again.</div>
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<br />Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-73261772486841704542014-01-06T21:16:00.000+00:002014-01-06T21:16:00.713+00:00WW1 Recruitment photos collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have often posted pictures of posters used in WW1 that were used to recruit for the forces. But I have found very few interesting images of people actually getting recruited. Hopefully this gives people some sense of the mass scale in which men signed up for WW1, the huge vacuum left of men of a certain age after the war.<br />
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This looks likes the recruitment stall is taking place in a city square, with large statue behind it. Gramophone most probably playing music or Propaganda. Maybe the crowd are gathered for the photo or just that it might be the start of the War and this is the first drive to enlist men? The military man sat down seems to have a non British uniform on, looks North American. </div>
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A somewhat less grande recruitment setting but it seems to be drawing in the men to enlist. We can see from the mens facial expressions they look a little worried.</div>
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Two of the new recruits must be still in the teens, I am guessing they had no idea what hell would await them in the battlefields...</div>
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I like this one, if your man does not sign up for WW1 is he right for you? likely to neglect you as he did his country? Very much the duty of ALL men to sign up and fight the enemy.</div>
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There were a number of WW1 posters referring to "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_Belgium">Remember Belgium</a>". At the start of WW1 Germany invaded Belgium with such brutality to civilians it was used as a tool across Europe to sign people up against the enemy for a number of years following the event.</div>
Matt Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07061029290467970013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9131056332911221727.post-30560536548478548452014-01-03T18:34:00.000+00:002014-01-03T18:34:00.714+00:00WW1 Centenary: 1914-2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we are here, the 100 year anniversary of World War One. It will be marked across the UK with a number of events. I found a very decent site <a href="http://www.1914.org/news/">here</a> that gives information and calendar of them. I hope to have a number of WW1 themed posts over the year and give a real insight into life at the time.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Miracle on 34th Street originally came out in 1947. Oddly in UK saw it named "The Big heart". It shows how great the story is that it seems timeless, even today I can watch one of the various versions and still enjoy it.</span></span> It was initially given a morally objectionable rating as there was a divorced mother in the story. Oh how times change.</div>
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<i><b>It's a Wonderful Life</b></i> is a 1946 film that again I love watching every year. A cracking story and family movie that at its time had a huge production budget of $3.3 million, only breaking even at the theaters. Not initially critically acclaimed it seems bizarre that this was not a huge hit! Over time of course this has changed into a classic!</div>
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We have all watched A Christmas Carol but my favorite version is<i><b> Scrooge</b></i> a 1951 film adaptation of Charles Dickens's story<i>. </i>Alastair Sim is so ideal for his role as Ebenezer Scrooge. Maybe until my kids are a little older the muppets version will have to do!</div>
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