Anne Murray plays the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Special Sesame Street Christmas.Rhubarb the Grouch appears to Oscar as the Grouch of Christmas Past in A Sesame Street Christmas Carol.The Swedish Chef plays "der Ghosty uv Krismus Repast" in "Yet Another Christmas Carol", a story in A Very Muppet Christmas.The first shots filmed had the puppet submerged in a tank of baby oil, which proved to be expensive and difficult to keep clean, so the remaining footage was shot with the puppet in water. In the audio commentary for the film's video release, Brian Henson explained the difficulty in achieving the ethereal look of The Ghost. The Ghost shows Scrooge his lonely childhood at school, a happy Christmas party at Fozziwig's, and his breakup with his fiancee, Belle. That's it.The Ghost of Christmas Past appears to Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol to remind him of his troubled past, appearing as an ethereal, childlike figure. Once somebody said, "I found an IP of reel four of A Christmas Carol," I was like "Oh, f-k, that's it. But they found an IP, a first strike inter-positive of that reel. But three or four times a year, I was on them saying, "You have an obligation to find this. Ghost of Christmas Past (voice) Steven Mackintosh. They searched for years and years, and it took all this time. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Disney had lost the negative, and they were horrified. So on video, the song was back in, but as soon as high-definition video came along, they needed to go back to the negative to make that better version. And he said, "Look, this is a fantastic movie but I think it'll be better for the movie in theaters if the song was cut from the theatrical release." So, the agreement was, as long as the song goes back in after this initial theatrical release and from then on, the movie has the song in it. If I weren't 28, I probably would've not cut it out and just said to Jeffrey, "Are you demanding I do this?" Because Jeffrey was very respectful. Buddy the Elf, Yukon Cornelius, the Miser Brothers, and Cousin Eddie are just a handful of beloved characters who became the faces of iconic Christmas movies. And for one very real reason, kids don't like them. Published Whether intentional or not, there are just some certain Christmas characters that are creepy and strange instead of having classic Christmas charm. It was super important to me because that was the deal. But I remember Disney was like, "Are you sure? Is he still working?" And then he was fantastic. Robin the Frog was going to be the ghost of Christmas past, Miss Piggy was going to be this bacchanalian ghost of Christmas present, and Animal was going to be the ghost of Christmas. I was thrilled to hear that he was up for it. He really responded to the script because it's a story of redemption. And I just thought, "Well, let's find Paul Williams." And Paul had become sober recently and really wanted to prove that he was still a great songwriter. The Ghost shows Scrooge his lonely childhood at school, a happy Christmas party at Fozziwigs, and his breakup with his fiancee, Belle. I was really quite intimidated by trying to do any musical numbers and who to guide as songwriter. I was nervous about because I hadn't done any musicals as a director or even as a performer. But then I found out it's because Paul had become very self-destructive and had gone into a dark period of addiction. I always wondered why my dad hadn't done more with Paul after The Muppet Movie. The other songwriter whose songs really worked for the Muppets was John Denver. Of everything that my dad had done, it seemed very clear that the songs that worked the best were the Paul Williams songs. We're going to just have to do this with water." And I said to my producing partner, "Well, I guess we'll just have to buy more oil." And he's like, "Brian, we can't. They turned on the pump, and it immediately pumped the water into the oil and the molecules of the water spread instantly into the oil. They had a pump to filter the oil, and it still had pool water in the pump and they didn't realize it. And I thought, "Let's do something though that's more magical than just flying." So, we had this mineral oil and it cost a fortune to get a tankful. I wanted to do her under oil because she's flying around. So, pushing it down into the mineral oil, the light didn't refract or reflect off of the rod. Mineral oil is very nearly exactly the same density as clear plastic rods. It was meant to be shot in mineral oil, because I had actually done a bunch of research. Shooting it under water was something that really intrigued me. The Ghost of Christmas Past is about innocence - and innocence lost is the message the character is giving. Christmas Present is largely Dickens' description, and then us realizing that in a Muppet-y way, the halfway between human and Muppet, but Muppet facial features.
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