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The Chimes

The Chimes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 19, 1999

Runtime

0h 23m

Genres

Animation, Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Chimes

Production Companies

Billy Budd Films, XYZOO Animation

Director

Lindsay Van Blerk

Description

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.