{"id":5588,"date":"2011-12-11T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:21:24","slug":"christmas-carol-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/11\/christmas-carol-1910\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol &#8211; 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5092\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/11\/06\/theater-mind\/sunday-matinee-header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"sunday-matinee-header\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5092\" title=\"sunday-matinee-header\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?resize=640%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sunday-matinee-header.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AChristmasCarol1910\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thomas Edison presents what is probably the first filmed version of<em><strong> A Christmas Carol.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Edison presents what is probably the first filmed version of A Christmas Carol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[368],"tags":[1094,1123,240,1122],"class_list":["post-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","tag-1094","tag-christmas-carol","tag-holiday-2","tag-silent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1s8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5557,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/barber-quarter-ornament\/","url_meta":{"origin":5588,"position":0},"title":"The Barber Quarter Ornament","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The time period of The Capewell Glass Negative Collection reminded me of a Christmas ornament I made fifteen years ago. In 1995, we bought a rowhome that was built in 1910. 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Capewell's brothers ran a farm and corn must have been one of his crops. This is a photograph of John's sons, John, Jr. standing and Henry O. seated on the lodge pole chair. 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Capewell along with an unidentified companion seated in a sleigh. Capewell is seated on the right. It looks like the photographer set up his camera, hopped back in the sleigh and is releasing the shutter with a length of string as he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Capewell Glass Negative Collection&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-capewell-glass-negative-collection\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sleigh-ride-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sleigh-ride-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sleigh-ride-detail.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sleigh-ride-detail.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6534,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/09\/informal-family-portrait-yard\/","url_meta":{"origin":5588,"position":4},"title":"Informal Family Portrait in the Yard &#8211; The Capewell Glass Negative Collection","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr and Mrs Capewell. John and Ella. Here's an informal family portrait of the Capewells of Westville, New Jersey. John and Ella Capewell are standing behind the two women seated in the lodgepole chairs. The Capewell boys are on the ground in front of the two women. 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Capewell's brother owned a farm in Westville, NJ, and this looks to be it. The long lanky fellow on the left is John's brother. I don't know who the fellow is on the right. 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