Talk:Carol for Another Christmas

Crown scene

If I'm not mistaken, in the crown scene with Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens and Bruce Dern are in the crowd. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 20 December 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. EdJohnston (talk) 02:17, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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A Carol for Another Christmas → Carol for Another Christmas – correct title —scarecroe (talk) 14:12, 19 December 2022 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Happily888 (talk) 00:18, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

@Scarecroe, UtherSRG, and 2pou: queried move request Happily888 (talk) 00:20, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• @Scarecroe: Please look at the comment for when this was move to the current location. I don't think this will be uncontroversial. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  User:Roman Spinner was mistaken in their move summary. There's no evidence for an "A" at the beginning of the film's title. —scarecroe (talk) 14:25, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  @Scarecroe, I don't think that's true. The very TCM listing used for reference 2 lists the film as "Carol for Another Christmas, A". Also, there appears to have been a title screen using "A" at some point in this screenshot. HBO Max also lists the film under "A Carol for Another Christmas" here, although the title screen when viewing appears to omit the "A" and use a font similar to this pic. I'm not necessarily opposed to a move, but no evidence is not the case, and there is enough out there that a discussion would help reach more of a community consensus on which form to use. -2pou (talk) 22:42, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  Here's the source of that screenshot, for context. We know this film was vaulted for some time. Could this have been some educational cut with a manufactured title font? Compare with the print on this upload which looks the same as the title card on HBO Max before it was restored. —scarecroe (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• Support move. At first, I thought the move was unwarranted, looking at today's sourcing. However, I went back through Newspapers.com and looked at contemporaneous sources. Prior to its air date, it was almost universally referred to with the "A" in its title, as in here, here, here, here, here, and here. Although it was occassionally referred to without the "A", as in here and here. However, just prior to its airing, and afterwards, it was almost uniformly referred to without the "A", as seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Although there were very occasional instances of the "A" present, such as this and this; although to be fair, the second example does refer to it both ways, and more often than not without the "A". All that being said, what tipped the balance for me was the advertising for the show put out by Xerox, which appeared in numerous papers on the day of the airing, seen here, here, here, and here.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support. From all the evidence above, it looks to me that both names are frequently used but there's a stronger case for the no-"A" version. Adumbrativus (talk) 01:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.