The twenty-two minute TV special was produced by�Chuck Jones�and many scenes were animated by�Ken Harris, one of Chuck's star animators from�Road Runner�days. Other legendary animators from the first�Golden Age of Animation�included Grim Natwick and Emery Hawkins.

Animation Masters
These animation masters passed on their knowledge of animation to the animators at the studio in London, at a time when the craft of animation was almost dying out. I still have copies of their lecture notes - which you can find in the Animation Library at Escape Studios.�

Art Director�Roy Naisbitt�designed hugely complex background layouts, creating a sense of the grime, squalor and claustrophobia of 19th century London.

Roy Naisbitt later went on to do the extraordinary two and a half dimensional background layouts for�The Thief and The Cobbler, and he also did the stunning layout work for the two-minute short cartoon that opens the 1988 hit�"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".��It is Roy's work that gives the film's opening its unique character.

Punch Cartoons
The style of�Christmas Carol�was based on the illustrated�Punch�cartoons of the 19th century, similar to the animated interludes in�The Charge of the Light Brigade�which the studio had completed a few years earlier. The idea was to make the film feel like a moving illustration - a tough drawing challenge for the animators.