Lost Muppet Christmas Carol song rediscovered; 4K restoration coming

The extended 89m version was streaming last Xmas. (Amazon?)

UHD (still 85m) https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Muppet-Christmas-Carol-4K-Blu-ray/246098/

9 December 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55232499

A lost song cut from the original The Muppet Christmas Carol movie has been found and reinstated, director Brian Henson has revealed.

Henson told BBC Radio 2 he was "excited" and "happy" that When Love Is Gone could again be heard in forthcoming versions of his film.

The ballad is sung to a young Scrooge by his fiancée Belle in the 1992 reworking of the classic Dickens story.

It was removed as Disney felt it wouldn't appeal to young viewers.

In the process of cutting the song for the cinema release they lost the video master and couldn't find the negative either, Henson (son of Muppets creator Jim) previously explained in a 2018 interview.

But two weeks ago, Henson received a call telling him the film was being remastered in 4K and asking him to check the new version.

At that stage, however, he wasn't told the lost piece of film had been found.