‘When Love Is Gone’ was cut from the cinema release
The famous ‘lost’ song from The Muppets Christmas Carol has been found, the director has confirmed.
Brian Henson – the son of Muppets creator Jim Henson – told BBC Radio 2 that the video master for ‘When Love Is Gone’ had been rediscovered.
The song is sung by the young Scrooge to his finance Belle, but was removed by Disney as they thought it was too much for younger viewers.
‘When Love Is Gone’ was still included the VHS release of the film – meaning that for a generation of fans who grew up watching The Muppets Christmas Carol at home in the 1990s, it is a treasured part of the movie.
But when it was released on DVD, only the cinematic master was available, meaning the song was not included – which did not go down well with the film’s fans.
The negative of the sequence was also believed missing, and it only existed in low-quality versions on YouTube.
Now Brian Henson has revealed that it has been located. Two weeks ago, the director was informed that The Muppets Christmas Carol was being prepared for a 4K release, and was asked to check the new version.
He did not know that the song had been re-inserted.
“I was so excited. They actually hid it… so I went down and they said: ‘But before we show it to you, we’ve got something else we want to show you,'” Henson told Radio 2, in a show that will go out on Christmas Day.
“And they put up reel four of Christmas Carol with ‘When Love Is Gone’,”
“I was like, ‘No, you did not!’ and they said, ‘Yes we did! We found it!’ I was so happy, I was so happy.”
“They are all set with the full-length version again. I don’t know if they are going to get it up on Disney Plus in time for Christmas because they have all these processes but it is coming back, the full-length version is coming back.”
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