Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBurny Mattinson
Story by
  • Tia W. Kratter
  • Burny Mattinson
  • Tony L. Marino
  • Ed Gombert
  • Don Griffith
  • Alan Young
  • Alan Dinehart
Based onA Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Mickey Mouse
by Walt Disney
Ub Iwerks
Produced byBurny Mattinson
Starring
Edited byJames Melton
Armetta Jackson
Music byIrwin Kostal
Animation by
Layouts by
Backgrounds by
  • Jim Coleman
  • Brian Sebern
  • Kathleen Swain
  • Tia W. Kratter
  • Donald A. Towns
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • December 16, 1983 (1983-12-16)
(with The Rescuers)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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. The rest of the cast was filled mostly using characters from pre-existing Disney animated properties; notably from the Mickey Mouse universe, Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), and Robin Hood (1973).

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.

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.

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. It was the first nomination for a Mickey Mouse short since Mickey and the Seal (1948).