The Chimes

1999 • Directed by

Lindsay Van Blerk

Animation, Drama

A claymation Christmas story by XYZoo Animation

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.