History Professor Celebrates "A Christmas Story" / Reel History
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2021
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The stateside Army still largely shuts down prior to Christmas until just after the New Year's Day, it's known as block leave. In 2008 I came home from AIT at FT Bragg for block leave but wasn't completely off. I had to pull 3 days of Hometown Recruiter duty. I spent a few hours for a few days walking around area malls with my recruiter looking for new enlistees. By that I mean we walked around in uniform finishing up our Christmas shopping. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Watched it last night and never noticed...
I had this recorded and when I was deployed to the Gulf War I had my wife send it to me for down time in KKMC.
No lie my wife and I have watched this movie 4 times since last night lol. It’s been on in the background for Christmas fun. When I was a kid my grandfather got me a red rider. I still have it.
Probably my favorite Jean Shepard story is Leopold Doppler and the Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot. He talks about going to the movies as a kid during the depression. It was an all day affair; they'd show cartoons, the news, two movies. He mentioned walking out with achy knees from sitting all day. The local theater, the Orpheum, has this sort of prize giveaway where every adult woman who bought a ticket would receive a piece of an huge kitchenware set. One week they'd get a butter dish for example, and he wrote about how nobody had a set of kitchenware; they had a hodge-podge of mason jars and cups with broken handles. He described how "butter" was margarine, and they had to mix the yellow coloring into it themselves. It came white, like a tub of lard. I won't spoil how the riot comes about for people who haven't read it, but I can't recommend it enough if you want to read a good short story.
When he mentions the American Civil War monument, there were still American Civil War vets alive in 1940, and the GAR(Grand Army of the Republic), was still active. The Last Civil War vet wouldn't die until 1956.
Again loved the video. I grew up in the sixties, but so many scenes from this movie trigger childhood Christmas memories. Downtown Albuquerque decked out streets and windows, Christmas parades, visits to Santa's work shop and shopping for my mom, dad and big brother. We had Walgreens and Woolworths. My dad always had the most awsome gifts. One year I got him a can of leather cleaning and preserving paste. Oddly, though he never used it he never threw it away! The Daisy BB gun scene played out eerily similar when I got my first BB gun. Best gift ever!
This was another treat. My Dad loved this movie, not for the plot, but all the stuff. He would always say we had refrigerator/ice box like that or the car, the washing board, etc. For years the movie was “Ralphie” in our minds, we never used the proper name “A Christmas Story” 😃
I was waiting for this one..Merry Christmas
I was an early teen in the middle sixties and remember vividly reading (in addition to other perusing) Jean Shepard's stories in Playboy. From Wikipedia...The screenplay for A Christmas Story is based on material from author Jean Shepherd's collection of short stories, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. Three of the semi-autobiographical short stories on which the film is based were originally published in Playboy magazine between 1964 and 1966.[17] Shepherd later read "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid" and told the otherwise unpublished story "Flick's Tongue" on his WOR Radio talk show, as can be heard in one of the DVD extras.[18] Bob Clark states on the DVD commentary that he became interested in Shepherd's work when he heard "Flick's Tongue" on the radio in 1968.
So good thank you!
Setting the story practically on the eve of WW2 is hamburger helper for the overall theme of an adult telling nostalgic tales from their childhood. As a 9 year old in 1940, Ralphie is oblivious to the signs of war, and his play and daydreams have a conspicuous absence of WW2 themes. Even the store display features a WW1 aircraft in Red Baron livery and the brother gets a toy Zeppelin. But the filmmakers have chosen to add subtle signs of what was to come for our own eyes. As a 14 year old at Christmas 1945, Ralphie is going to have a very different outlook on life.
I've always felt that A Christmas Story is the remembrances of the writer from long ago. Details get mixed up, timelines are skewed. Bullfrog getting traded would be something he might remember from one year, " The official Red Ryder carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time" which didn't really exist (mixed it up with a Buck Jones pump action air rifle), Wizard of Oz characters, his father's eloquent swearing that we can't make out, the false chattering teeth that weren't invented until 1949. It's all been distilled down to a fond memory put to celluloid
Merry Christmas to everyone at Reel History. Love the channel and I hope it continues to grow all through 2022. Keep up the great work guys. 😁
I would love to know if in that scene where the Old Man is trying to put back together his major award and the mom is trying not to laugh is if that laughter is part of the script or a genuine snicker at the hilariousness of the scene?
My favorite Christmas movie and my favorite RUclips channel, I was not expecting this!
There is another historical reference in the decoder scenes. When Ralphie takes the large envelope from the mailbox it is addressed to Master Ralph Parker. "Master" has been out of common use for way over fifty years, but in the past it was the title that would be used when addressing males under the age of 18. I was born in 1953 and when very young my mother taught me that, along with Miss for girls and unmarried women, Mrs for married women, and Mister for adult males. I was viewing that scene recently, which I've seen dozens of times, and that jumped right out at me. I had never paid attention to it before, probably because I just took it as being normal since I grew up in a time when it was still used.
Family is watching this film on endless loop on TNT. I gave up after 3 times and am enjoying Prof Jared's awesome history lesson. Great nostalgic, feel good movie for sure.
My cousins took me to some of the places in Cleveland where this was shot, and I even saw the big slide. Didn't get to use it, sadly.
What a Christmas treat ! Well done. Merry Christmas everyone