I loved learning the facts behind the classic movie. ! Especially how it sold for 150k and in 2006 became a museum and little brother actually moves in and gives museum tours..!!!
December 25th 2023 The Christmas story house and museum has been sold to another owner . I live in Cleveland. I think this new owner is going to keep the tradition of the museum going.
Thouse are pretty awesome facts about a Christmas classic likethe Christmas. Story I also didn’t know the Christmas story was based on 7 stories from a book witch book was it
I was in college (NJ) in the late ‘60’s. Jean Shepherd’s radio show on WOR was a big favorite of mine, as well as most of my friends! So, later in life, when A Christmas Story began airing on TV, it was a no-brainer to watch it. And thus, a new Christmas tradition was born. Now we’ve also added A Christmas Story Christmas to the list. Merry Christmas 🎄 and Flick Lives!
I have to share that I , my mom and my mother in law went to see this movie when it first came out. I had just moved to Chicago .We went because it was filmed in Cleveland. Both moms really enjoyed it because they had been born in the 1920's and remembered the klinkers, grew up in homes like the Parker home and knew the Cleveland neighborhood. I actually worked in the downtown Higbee store one holiday. Every holiday we would go downtown to see the Christmas windows. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
I saw this film FIVE times in the THEATER during it's initial release. I loved it immediately. While I already knew several of these facts, you did teach me a few new ones. I loved that the narrating style of this video matches that of the film. well done.
I’d never seen this film before, till a few weeks ago on the bbc. And I’m as old as the film!. What a charming film, I loved it I watched it again a few times!!!!
I moved from Florida to Ohio 7.5 years ago. When I found out the house from A Christmas Story was not only in Ohio, but only 2.5 hours from where I live, I had to go. We finally made it there just 4 weeks ago on 10/30/22. I can’t wait to go back!!
Most people today that have never lived without a TV ot Phone, don't understand the movie and how we dreamed about getting a BB gun. Looking for hours in a JC PENNY'S Catalog, and Sear's toy Catalog around Christmas, and how stores fixed up windows! Still brings fire in my heart, even today!
I am really glad that I born in the early 1980's so I got to experience looking through the JC Penny's catalog come Christmastime during my childhood. Also, growing up in a small town, I do recall a number of the mom-and-pop stores decorating their windows during the Holiday season as well.
Great research. This must have taken a while to research and put together in the video. I remember watching this over and over since I was a kid in grade school.
It's one of the greatest Christmas movies ever. I just finished watching a Christmas story Christmas...that was a really great movie. It was hilarious and a little bit of a tear jerker. The old man passing and all. Happy Holidays everyone 🙏🏻✌🏻👍🏽🕎🎄🎅🦌⛄ from ny
What really appeals to me about this movie is that I used to daydream just like Ralphie. The daydreams would seem so real, and this portrays just what it was like. Also, the clothing, cars and school building reflect what I knew as a boy in the 1950s. I watch this movie every Christmas just to revisit life as I knew it long ago.
We learned when we toured the house that Ralphie's Teacher at school was actually about 8 months pregnant. They really wanted her for the role and @13:59 when it's a side angle it's very obvious.
Filming took place in other cities. The school scenes were filmed in St. Catharines Ontario at Victoria School on Niagara St. The tire change was shot at the Glendale Ave. bridge on the Welland Canal. The St. Catharines Museum has a display of varius props from the movie and is popular and must see for A Christmas Story fans.
Every year A Christmas 🎄 Story is on TV in heavy rotation. I still have two more viewings to full up my 4-pack. You'll put your eye out. Is my favorite Christmas greeting.
Any movie like this is never intended to be exactly like real life. It's meant to be similar instances of memories of that Era. Critics are looking for perfection. People are looking for good memories, not exact, but close enough to how things were back then.
Two more bonus christmas story fun facts: 1. Daisy the bb gun manufacture modified the bb gun peter billingsley to better suit him because he's left handed and 2. The tire changing scene where ralphie knocked the tire bolts out of the old man's hand peter billingsley actually cussed and didn't use the word fudge and the old man's/ darren gavin's reaction was genuine.
The daydreaming sequences were a part of real life for a lot of kids. Like when the mother makes Ralphie put the bar of soap in his mouth, he dreams of going blind....and THEN they'd be sorry! I can remember similar thoughts when I was a kid. The thoughts of revenge after being sent to your room. A part of growing up. This is a terrific movie.
This is about my favorite Christmas movie. I probably have watched it 25 times, if not more. However after watching your expose of it, I'll never see it in the same light. I don't know if that's good or bad. Merry Christmas to you, Sarah, and Reese.
In regards to Number 16 (The Boom Mic), I have to admit I never noticed it, but what I *have* noticed for years was the little girl mugging the camera...! LOL Poor kid just couldn't seem to look away from looking directly in to the camera...
I live in Cleveland and have been to the house many many times. Have done quite a few drive-bys as well with friends from out of town too cheap to buy a ticket I guess… L O L What a classic! One of my favorite movies of all time… Sorry I missed it on TNT this year. I will find it on one of the apps that I pay for... it surely deserves A viewing once per year minimum!
The clinker the Old Man referred to was a mass of fused ash that remained after coal was burned in their furnace. It plugs them and causes the smoke to come through the house instead of the flu
In regards to the leg lamp crate, it is my understanding that the delivery guy who doesn’t speak was a neighbor of the house in Cleveland (we met him). So, that scene was at the actual house with the full crate coming through the front door.
its hard to really nail down a time line in this story for example Ralphies mothers issue of look magazine with Shirley Temple and Santa clause came out on Dec 21 1937, the street cars that you see, one passing the Christmas tree lot and in the scene where Ralphie tackles Scutt you can see the streetcar depot in the background (this was shot on Minto street looking down towards the Russell Carhouse depot) these were A-series (A6-A15) which were manufactured around 1947. Barring all the inconsistencies i just take the film for what it is and enjoy watching it as part of my regular Christmas movie traditions.
My Mom hated this movie so I didn’t see it until I was an adult, and I love it. No idea why she didn’t like it. I’m glad that I finally got to see it, it’s a Christmas tradition for me now.
I never had much use for critics; they're people who've never done anything. My skepticism was proved by their critiques of A Christmas Story. Just as Scrooge personifies an English Christmas, Ralphie personifies an American Christmas. Film critics personify plain old stupidity, I love this movie!!!
Most people don’t know that the there was a movie called “The Great American Fourth of July” that was made a year earlier featuring Ralph and friends as teenagers. It had Matt Dillon as Ralphie. It is really humorous but unfortunately hard to find. Shep narrates it.
I remember when it originally aired on PBS as an episode of its series “AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE”. Matt Dillon should have been nominated for the Emmy award, but was overlooked entirely. However, if yet another 4TH of July Ralphie movie gets made, then Matt Dillon as Ralphie should be set in the year of the American Bicentennial with Peter Billingsley directing.
I remember seeing this movie with family when it came out. I remember feeling how boring the movie was. You have to remember this was the mid 80’s and high death counts in action movies and explosion were the rage and multiple police academy sequels. It was a different time. A Christmas story , however started a family tradition of going to the movie theaters on Christmas Day. Many a movie I saw on Christmas Day since.
Anybody else catch that in the beginning of the movie, the calendar shows 1973. But in the obituary Ralphie is reading later in the movie, it’s from 1974! Oooopsie. Lol.
Rex Reed is an absolutely terrible movie reviewer. He was shallow, mean-spirited, often factually wrong and due to a serious lack of imagination will leave no legacy.
The Chinese restaurant was “Chung Wahs”. I ate there many times in the late 70s before the movie was made. One other fact- one morning when I was driving into work at 6 am, the radio announcer mentioned that certain highway exits were closed due to the early filming of a movie. He said the streets look like they are from the 40s. He also said, “The movie is about a Christmas Story”! Those were his exact words. When the movie came out, that morning driving to work came to mind. It was exciting!!!
Peter Billingsly also appeared in the TV series That's Incredible as one of the hosts. The guy who played Farkas had to sue for the money as an adult for the rights to the merchandise that the rest of the cast was receiving. He later appeared as the dead brother in Freddy Vs Jason movie. This movie is still a classic that even my grown kids watch every year. Surprised that the movie bombed until it hit video. Peters mother should of said no way to the tobacco...what was the director thinking giving it to a kid. Getting sick could of ended up as an ER visit.
Fact 26: those Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are a blooper. That particular style was manufactured 1963-1982 by Knickerbocker. They should have had the Gorgene company versions.
This is an excellent video!! Far and beyond most of the ones doing similar types of these. I am afraid that I am a cynic about this movie. I have tried to watch it several times over the years...but always wound up getting bored and moving on. I love all Christmas movies...you could say that I am addicted...but this one was just not my thing. But your video? Excellent!! So much more content...actual footage and much better narration! Thanks for sharing this with us. Hope you and Sara have a great weekend! God bless!
I saw this movie when it first came out at a theater in Los Angeles and loved it. I lived about 15 miles outside of L.A. and wanted to see it again at a theater closer to where I lived, but it was not playing anywhere nearby. I found out some years later that the movie flopped when it first came out (So did It's A Wonderful Life) but then sometime later, and I don't remember when exactly, it became a Christmas classic and everybody loved it. (Just like It's A Wonderful Life) I didn't know about the negative critic reviews until seeing this video. I wonder if that's why theaters didn't want to show it and people didn't get a chance to see it and realize what a good movie it is. If I had been a movie critic I would have given this a very good positive review after first seeing it. Shows that these so-called movie critics are idiots who don't think a movie is good unless it's some serious dramatic high-brow intellectual piece of crap.
#26. The Crosley "bullseye " radio used in the kitchen was a 1951 model. The consul radio in the livingroom was a Canadian Westinghouse with two mismatch knobs. This radio differs from the American model in cabinet design. Did you know Jean Sheppard was a Ham radio operator and a private pilot? Flick lives!
Mrs. Shields was also pregnant and because back in the days the movie was set in, pregnant teachers weren’t allowed, they added padding to her butt to make her look like a bigger lady
Loved the movie, but my one reservation was, that in growing up in Montana in the 1950's, with its cold winters, everybody knew that if a kid stuck his tongue to the flag pole, you used a kettle of warm water to warm the pole and tongue to cause release. I still have my 1930's Red Rider Range Carbine which we received from a mother in our church who passed it on after her son outgrew it.
Noted, after watching the film many times, in the lamp breaking scene, the mother goes in to water her plants, a definite glass breaking sound is heard, yet later, when the father tries to glue it back together, it fails to set and it collapses, a definite plastic sound is heard, when the lamp shade is put on, the end view of the lamp clearly shows it was made of plastic. Also, if you notice, in the scene where the lamp in the crate is delivered, the size of the crate looks to be the size of a refrigerator, there are no table lamps that are that big.
I noticed a numbers of mistakes in the movie like the damper scene. She moves the levers one way and in the next shot the levers are in a different position.
Mistake, you called chewing tobacco snuff, those are 2 entirely different things. Snuff is pretty much gone. Snuff is that stuff Brad Pitt snuffs up his nose in Inglourious Basterds
Haha in my neck of the woods growing up snuff was in a small circular can of chewing tobacco and would make a permanent imprint in your back jeans pocket😉
I loved learning the facts behind the classic movie. ! Especially how it sold for 150k and in 2006 became a museum and little brother actually moves in and gives museum tours..!!!
December 25th 2023 The Christmas story house and museum has been sold to another owner . I live in Cleveland. I think this new owner is going to keep the tradition of the museum going.
I was in Cleveland in 2012 and totally forgot this house was there and didn't go see it. I've been kicking myself ever since.
I hope so
Thouse are pretty awesome facts about a Christmas classic likethe Christmas. Story I also didn’t know the Christmas story was based on 7 stories from a book witch book was it
The home was sold to a new owner for $10M.
Melinda Dillon, may she rest in peace, was the perfect mother. I loved her.
We watch A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation multiple times each year. These are our go to Christmas movies.
I was in college (NJ) in the late ‘60’s. Jean Shepherd’s radio show on WOR was a big favorite of mine, as well as most of my friends! So, later in life, when A Christmas Story began airing on TV, it was a no-brainer to watch it. And thus, a new Christmas tradition was born. Now we’ve also added A Christmas Story Christmas to the list. Merry Christmas 🎄 and Flick Lives!
One of the best Christmas films ever
I have to share that I , my mom and my mother in law went to see this movie when it first came out. I had just moved to Chicago .We went because it was filmed in Cleveland. Both moms really enjoyed it because they had been born in the 1920's and remembered the klinkers, grew up in homes like the Parker home and knew the Cleveland neighborhood. I actually worked in the downtown Higbee store one holiday. Every holiday we would go downtown to see the Christmas windows. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
That is so interesting Deb!! Thanks for sharing!!🎅🎄
I grew up in the 70's and the house I grew up in was just like that. It was actually nicer than mine.
The street car scene is filmed in Toronto, Ontario and the school is in St. Catherines, Ontario.
It was mostly shot in Canada. Flat tire scene is Cherry St bridge, Toronto. House was mostly a sound stage. Chinese restaurant, Toronto. …
It’s one of the first movies I was taken to see at a very young age probably 3. I sometimes mistake scenes from this movie for my own memories🤪
I love Darren Mcgavin. He was perfect fore the part of the father‼️😀😀😀😀😀😀
Best Christmas movie ever 😊.
I saw this film FIVE times in the THEATER during it's initial release. I loved it immediately. While I already knew several of these facts, you did teach me a few new ones. I loved that the narrating style of this video matches that of the film. well done.
I’d never seen this film before, till a few weeks ago on the bbc. And I’m as old as the film!. What a charming film, I loved it I watched it again a few times!!!!
I worked at Higbee's the store where the movie was filmed. Many co-workers were extras and it is fun to see them each year.
@@charisepfahl7778 Very interesting!!🎄
My fav Christmas movie, ever!!❤
The book this story comes from, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash is a fun read.
I moved from Florida to Ohio 7.5 years ago. When I found out the house from A Christmas Story was not only in Ohio, but only 2.5 hours from where I live, I had to go. We finally made it there just 4 weeks ago on 10/30/22. I can’t wait to go back!!
Awesome experience being there as a huge fan no doubt! Thanks for comment and Merry Christmas!🎅🏼🎄😎
Most people today that have never lived without a TV ot Phone, don't understand the movie and how we dreamed about getting a BB gun. Looking for hours in a JC PENNY'S Catalog, and Sear's toy Catalog around Christmas, and how stores fixed up windows! Still brings fire in my heart, even today!
Very true Jimmy!!🎄🎊
I am really glad that I born in the early 1980's so I got to experience looking through the JC Penny's catalog come Christmastime during my childhood. Also, growing up in a small town, I do recall a number of the mom-and-pop stores decorating their windows during the Holiday season as well.
Excellent 😊
Wow this is a great video, a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff I've never heard before! This is the best Christmas movie EVER made, hands down
Great research. This must have taken a while to research and put together in the video. I remember watching this over and over since I was a kid in grade school.
CRITICS SUCK A$$! They NEVER get it right. Ever! If a critic says they hate a movie, then I can be sure I’ll love it!
'Nice Holiday Family Movie'...were they expecting a "Rosebud" sled ending?
It's one of the greatest Christmas movies ever. I just finished watching a Christmas story Christmas...that was a really great movie. It was hilarious and a little bit of a tear jerker. The old man passing and all. Happy Holidays everyone 🙏🏻✌🏻👍🏽🕎🎄🎅🦌⛄ from ny
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I cried too ❤
What really appeals to me about this movie is that I used to daydream just like Ralphie. The daydreams would seem so real, and this portrays just what it was like. Also, the clothing, cars and school building reflect what I knew as a boy in the 1950s. I watch this movie every Christmas just to revisit life as I knew it long ago.
Enjoyed the he'll out of this, thank you for putting in the work.
Thank you SO much for using “based on” and not the nauseatingly incorrect “based off of”.
Intelligent language. It’s a beautiful thing.
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I love this movie ! Watch it every Christmas!
Very interesting facts!
We learned when we toured the house that Ralphie's Teacher at school was actually about 8 months pregnant. They really wanted her for the role and @13:59 when it's a side angle it's very obvious.
"I like the Wizard of Oz."
😂😂😂 That kid, although only there for a little, was my favourite part of A Christmas Story when I was a kid.
Nice!
It really is a Midwestern movie. I was born in 1965, and much of this movie is still similar in rual Ohio in the 70s where I grew up.
Filming took place in other cities. The school scenes were filmed in St. Catharines Ontario at Victoria School on Niagara St. The tire change was shot at the Glendale Ave. bridge on the Welland Canal. The St. Catharines Museum has a display of varius props from the movie and is popular and must see for A Christmas Story fans.
I started watching Christmas story since 1983. And every year I watch it on Christmas.
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Every year A Christmas 🎄 Story is on TV in heavy rotation. I still have two more viewings to full up my 4-pack. You'll put your eye out. Is my favorite Christmas greeting.
Thanks!
Thank you! Merry Christmas!🎄❄️🎅⭐️
This video was fun to watch. Thanks for making it!
Any movie like this is never intended to be exactly like real life. It's meant to be similar instances of memories of that Era. Critics are looking for perfection. People are looking for good memories, not exact, but close enough to how things were back then.
Learned new fun facts about a great film.i found it in 1992. Great compilation,
Two more bonus christmas story fun facts: 1. Daisy the bb gun manufacture modified the bb gun peter billingsley to better suit him because he's left handed and 2. The tire changing scene where ralphie knocked the tire bolts out of the old man's hand peter billingsley actually cussed and didn't use the word fudge and the old man's/ darren gavin's reaction was genuine.
Shepherd seemed obsessed with his "old man" throughout his works.
The daydreaming sequences were a part of real life for a lot of kids. Like when the mother makes Ralphie put the bar of soap in his mouth, he dreams of going blind....and THEN they'd be sorry! I can remember similar thoughts when I was a kid. The thoughts of revenge after being sent to your room. A part of growing up. This is a terrific movie.
Lifeboy (orange) soap preferred by Moms of that era!
This is about my favorite Christmas movie. I probably have watched it 25 times, if not more. However after watching your expose of it, I'll never see it in the same light. I don't know if that's good or bad.
Merry Christmas to you, Sarah, and Reese.
Hopefully its a good thing Sandra! But is always surprising to hear the inside story no doubt! Merry Christmas to you too from all of us!🎄🎅
That was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
👍👍😎✌️🤟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️We have been to the house in Cleveland, OH. Loved the movie and the tour. We hope it survives the pandemic’s downturn.
Very interesting 👍
In regards to Number 16 (The Boom Mic), I have to admit I never noticed it, but what I *have* noticed for years was the little girl mugging the camera...! LOL Poor kid just couldn't seem to look away from looking directly in to the camera...
😂🎅🎄🎁
Viva Ralphie!
I live in Cleveland and have been to the house many many times. Have done quite a few drive-bys as well with friends from out of town too cheap to buy a ticket I guess… L O L What a classic! One of my favorite movies of all time… Sorry I missed it on TNT this year. I will find it on one of the apps that I pay for... it surely deserves A viewing once per year minimum!
i know i watched and loved this movie as kid way before it was christmas movie,,
Thanks for reminding me that the little brother’s name was Randy
The actual fire engine , is in a museum outside of Niagara Falls , Canada in Chippewa ,Ont.
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The clinker the Old Man referred to was a mass of fused ash that remained after coal was burned in their furnace. It plugs them and causes the smoke to come through the house instead of the flu
I love this movie in fact i actually got to your there house before it was awesome 😊
Very nice!🎅🎄
In regards to the leg lamp crate, it is my understanding that the delivery guy who doesn’t speak was a neighbor of the house in Cleveland (we met him). So, that scene was at the actual house with the full crate coming through the front door.
I worked for Fanny Farmer Candies and we had a coloring contest that was at the time of the movies release.
See you soon. Thank you for your service
Seen this move at least 8 times!
GREAT MOVIE 🤯🥳🤪 GREAT life as it truly was. My generation. 👅
its hard to really nail down a time line in this story for example Ralphies mothers issue of look magazine with Shirley Temple and Santa clause came out on Dec 21 1937, the street cars that you see, one passing the Christmas tree lot and in the scene where Ralphie tackles Scutt you can see the streetcar depot in the background (this was shot on Minto street looking down towards the Russell Carhouse depot) these were A-series (A6-A15) which were manufactured around 1947. Barring all the inconsistencies i just take the film for what it is and enjoy watching it as part of my regular Christmas movie traditions.
The fact that blew my mind the most for some reason is that Raphael and Billy Madison are brothers, same dad.
I live in the Indiana town this story is about. There is a celebration for this movie every year.
My Mom hated this movie so I didn’t see it until I was an adult, and I love it. No idea why she didn’t like it. I’m glad that I finally got to see it, it’s a Christmas tradition for me now.
Good for you.
What do you use to edit?
I never had much use for critics; they're people who've never done anything. My skepticism was proved by their critiques of A Christmas Story. Just as Scrooge personifies an English Christmas, Ralphie personifies an American Christmas. Film critics personify plain old stupidity, I love this movie!!!
@@glendapeterson1180 Well said Glenda! Merry Christmas!🎩🎄
i knew he was in elf right away!
😎🎄Nice!
Most people don’t know that the there was a movie called “The Great American Fourth of July” that was made a year earlier featuring Ralph and friends as teenagers. It had Matt Dillon as Ralphie. It is really humorous but unfortunately hard to find. Shep narrates it.
I remember when it originally aired on PBS as an episode of its series “AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE”. Matt Dillon should have been nominated for the Emmy award, but was overlooked entirely.
However, if yet another 4TH of July Ralphie movie gets made, then Matt Dillon as Ralphie should be set in the year of the American Bicentennial with Peter Billingsley directing.
And. PBS special based on “A Fistful of Fig Newtons” by Shepherd, including content about working in the East Chicago, Indiana steel mills.😂
I remember seeing this movie with family when it came out. I remember feeling how boring the movie was. You have to remember this was the mid 80’s and high death counts in action movies and explosion were the rage and multiple police academy sequels. It was a different time.
A Christmas story , however started a family tradition of going to the movie theaters on Christmas Day. Many a movie I saw on Christmas Day since.
Anybody else catch that in the beginning of the movie, the calendar shows 1973. But in the obituary Ralphie is reading later in the movie, it’s from 1974! Oooopsie. Lol.
I was an usher at a movie theater when this movie came out
Awesome!
Rex Reed is an absolutely terrible movie reviewer. He was shallow, mean-spirited, often factually wrong and due to a serious lack of imagination will leave no legacy.
🎄🎁Anybody out there actually spend the night 🌃 in Ralphie's House? 🏡 That would be SO Cool!☃️❄️😎🍀
There are actually a lot of UA-camrs who have stayed there. One i know of is Adam the Woo. Search it here and you should be able to find it!🎅❄️
@@QuestCapsulethank you 🙏😊🍀
The Chinese restaurant was “Chung Wahs”. I ate there many times in the late 70s before the movie was made. One other fact- one morning when I was driving into work at 6 am, the radio announcer mentioned that certain highway exits were closed due to the early filming of a movie. He said the streets look like they are from the 40s. He also said, “The movie is about a Christmas Story”! Those were his exact words. When the movie came out, that morning driving to work came to mind. It was exciting!!!
@@janetg. Thanks for sharing that very cool 😎 & sweet story! 🎄🎁
Peter Billingsly also appeared in the TV series That's Incredible as one of the hosts. The guy who played Farkas had to sue for the money as an adult for the rights to the merchandise that the rest of the cast was receiving. He later appeared as the dead brother in Freddy Vs Jason movie. This movie is still a classic that even my grown kids watch every year. Surprised that the movie bombed until it hit video. Peters mother should of said no way to the tobacco...what was the director thinking giving it to a kid. Getting sick could of ended up as an ER visit.
Where do you get your information? That's Incredible ran from 1980-84 when he would have been between the ages of 9-13.
It’s not the fault of the director, but rather a screw up by the prop department under the circumstances.
Was his mom Barbara Billingsley of TV fame?
Fact 26: those Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are a blooper. That particular style was manufactured 1963-1982 by Knickerbocker. They should have had the Gorgene company versions.
Good video forgot about the wizard of Oz who calander was seen in the movie year was diffent than when movie was in the theather
It Is my fav show I have a monply gave of a Christmas story
This is an excellent video!! Far and beyond most of the ones doing similar types of these. I am afraid that I am a cynic about this movie. I have tried to watch it several times over the years...but always wound up getting bored and moving on. I love all Christmas movies...you could say that I am addicted...but this one was just not my thing. But your video? Excellent!! So much more content...actual footage and much better narration! Thanks for sharing this with us. Hope you and Sara have a great weekend! God bless!
Thank you Cathy!!! So glad you liked it!!🎅🎄
The fire truck is in Chippawa , niagara region ..... It belongs to the Lions club there .
Thanks for the information.
There is nothing wrong with the movie A Christmas Story.
Goggles kid stole the show!
I saw this movie when it first came out at a theater in Los Angeles and loved it. I lived about 15 miles outside of L.A. and wanted to see it again at a theater closer to where I lived, but it was not playing anywhere nearby. I found out some years later that the movie flopped when it first came out (So did It's A Wonderful Life) but then sometime later, and I don't remember when exactly, it became a Christmas classic and everybody loved it. (Just like It's A Wonderful Life) I didn't know about the negative critic reviews until seeing this video. I wonder if that's why theaters didn't want to show it and people didn't get a chance to see it and realize what a good movie it is. If I had been a movie critic I would have given this a very good positive review after first seeing it. Shows that these so-called movie critics are idiots who don't think a movie is good unless it's some serious dramatic high-brow intellectual piece of crap.
This movie is far better than “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” any day of the year.
#26. The Crosley "bullseye " radio used in the kitchen was a 1951 model. The consul radio in the livingroom was a Canadian Westinghouse with two mismatch knobs. This radio differs from the American model in cabinet design. Did you know Jean Sheppard was a Ham radio operator and a private pilot? Flick lives!
Awesome!!🎅🎄
"Fragile, it must be Italian"
Mrs. Shields was also pregnant and because back in the days the movie was set in, pregnant teachers weren’t allowed, they added padding to her butt to make her look like a bigger lady
Just like when the 007 team put umpire padding under the clothes of the character of Sheriff J. W. Pepper in the 1973 movie “LIVE AND LET DIE”.
@@LindaCooper-i3f well, the padding for the teacher was to hide the fact she was pregnant
will wheaton would have fit good in this cast basicly same look as stand by me...
I was just in Cleveland. Wished I had visited the house
Hope you get to see it one day soon!🎅🎄
Loved the movie, but my one reservation was, that in growing up in Montana in the 1950's, with its cold winters, everybody knew that if a kid stuck his tongue to the flag pole, you used a kettle of warm water to warm the pole and tongue to cause release. I still have my 1930's Red Rider Range Carbine which we received from a mother in our church who passed it on after her son outgrew it.
5:13 the movie was based in the 1930’s.
also under the tree on Xmas morning you can see a Herman Munster mask
Really?! I’m confirming this today, Christmas morning🎄Never spotted this before! Thanks!🎩
Perhaps Frankenstein!
Shadow boom mic scene… looks like a ghost of a kid shows up for a second and it’s gone
Those reviews aged well🤦🏻♂️
The Chinese restaurant was filmed in toronto
Noted, after watching the film many times, in the lamp breaking scene, the mother goes in to water her plants, a definite glass breaking sound is heard, yet later, when the father tries to glue it back together, it fails to set and it collapses, a definite plastic sound is heard, when the lamp shade is put on, the end view of the lamp clearly shows it was made of plastic. Also, if you notice, in the scene where the lamp in the crate is delivered, the size of the crate looks to be the size of a refrigerator, there are no table lamps that are that big.
Ralphies lil bro is Air b n b the house?
You'll shoot your eye out kid!
Feud
I noticed a numbers of mistakes in the movie like the damper scene. She moves the levers one way and in the next shot the levers are in a different position.
Mistake, you called chewing tobacco snuff, those are 2 entirely different things. Snuff is pretty much gone. Snuff is that stuff Brad Pitt snuffs up his nose in Inglourious Basterds
Haha in my neck of the woods growing up snuff was in a small circular can of chewing tobacco and would make a permanent imprint in your back jeans pocket😉
IDK why anyone listens to critics anyway
If I never see that movie again. Nooooooop !
As you wish.
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