Seymour Hicks first played Scrooge onstage in 1901 and it became his most popular role. Throughout his career he played it over a thousand times, often at fund-raising benefits.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
This film is the first live action production to include the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come's scene of Scrooge's shrouded corpse as in the book.
This is the first full length version of the story with sound; there had been a short, Scrooge (1928), which was the first sound version.
This film shows the Christmas Eve Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, which is mentioned in the book. The guests and citizens in the street sing "God Save the Queen" in honor of a young Queen Victoria. The only other depiction of the banquet is seen in the 2009 remake with Jim Carrey.