Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Burny Mattinson
Story by	Tia W. Kratter Burny Mattinson Tony L. Marino Ed Gombert Don Griffith Alan Young Alan Dinehart
Based on	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
Produced by	Burny Mattinson
Starring	Alan Young Wayne Allwine Hal Smith Will Ryan Clarence Nash Eddie Carroll Patricia Parris Dick Billingsley
Edited by	James Melton Armetta Jackson
Music by	Irwin Kostal
Animation by	John Lasseter Glen Keane Mark Henn Ed Gombert Dale Baer David Block Randy Cartwright Patricia Peraza Kathy Zielinski
Layouts by	Michael Peraza Jr. Sylvia Roemer Gary M. Eggleston
Backgrounds by	Jim Coleman Brian Sebern Kathleen Swain Tia W. Kratter Donald A. Towns
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date	December 16, 1983 (1983-12-16) (with The Rescuers)
Running time	26 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated Christmas fantasy featurette directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and stars Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. Many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe, as well as Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), and characters from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) and Robin Hood (1973), were cast throughout the film. The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 16, 1983, with the re-issue of The Rescuers (1977). In the United States, it was first aired on television on NBC, on December 10, 1984.^[1]

Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio musical An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. The musical featured similar dialogue and a similar cast of characters. Additionally this film was the last time that Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck before his death in 1985.^[2]

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984, but lost to Jimmy Picker's Sundae in New York.^[3] It was the first nomination for a Mickey Mouse short since Mickey and the Seal (1948).