The Energy Carol

The Energy Carol

Release Date:  //1975
Country of Release:  Canada
Length:  11 minutes
MPAA: 
Medium:  Video
Genre:  FAN
Release Message:  Ebenezer Scrooge, head of Zeus Energy Inc, is taught how to save energy and stop wasting valuable resources by ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve.
Description:  Ebenezer Scrooge, head of Zeus Energy Inc, is taught how to save energy and stop wasting valuable resources by ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve. A Canadian animated fantasy film directed by Les Drew and based on Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol. 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 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. Jacob Morelights enters, chained to a giant toaster as penance for his wasteful ways. Energy past (a candle) shows grandpa's turnip farm, bristling with oil wells. Energy present shows off his various bits of profligacy. Energy future shows a dark, empty city, with no more fossil fuel. On the hill, the cemetery, where Stooge is in deep freeze, but the power goes out and he won't be able to be thawed out. He changes: when he visits the Scratchets, instead of the usual energy-wasting presents, he brings some rather excessively frugal gifts, like a porcupine-fur coat for Bob and turkey flavored gruel.