The Energy Carol

1975
11m

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An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol. In this one, Ebenezer Stooge runs a power company, and he's actually nice to his employee, Bob Scratchet. But he's also incredibly wasteful ... Read allAn unconventional version of The Christmas Carol. In this one, Ebenezer Stooge runs a power company, and he's actually nice to his employee, Bob Scratchet. But he's also incredibly wasteful of all kinds of energy. Eb goes home on Christmas Eve and turns in, leaving the lights on ... Read allAn unconventional version of The Christmas Carol. In this one, Ebenezer Stooge runs a power company, and he's actually nice to his employee, Bob Scratchet. But he's also incredibly wasteful of all kinds of energy. Eb goes home on Christmas Eve and turns in, leaving the lights on but when he closes the electric drapes on his bed, the lights go out, and the ghosts visit... Read all

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Grant Munro

Ebenezer Stooge
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- Les Drew
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- Les Drew
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6planktonrules

Subtle, it ain't!

This is a film sponsored by The National Film Board of Canada. This governmental organization has sponsored many Oscar-nominated films over the years but they also have sponsored some amazingly preachy films--three of which I watched tonight. I have just seen one about the evils of smoking, one about the misuse of fire and this one about wasting energy. It's obvious Big Brother cares about us and wants to look out for our best interests! THE ENERGY CAROL is a take off on the classic Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol". However, in this case, Scrooge is a nice guy who loves to waste energy. He wastes it so much that the ghost of energy come and preach incessantly about a need to conserve energy. While this was made in the midst of the Energy Crisis of the 1970s and it did make a good point, it also comes off as amazingly preachy and not particularly fun--though I did like the cute ending.