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 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 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.
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!!!!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
#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
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.
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.
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.
We watch A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation multiple times each year. These are our go to Christmas movies.
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.
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!🎅🏼🎄😎
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!
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.
Shepherd seemed obsessed with his "old man" throughout his works.
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!!!!
The book this story comes from, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash is a fun read.
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.
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.
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 ❤
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.
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.
Enjoyed the he'll out of this, thank you for putting in the work.
I love Darren Mcgavin. He was perfect fore the part of the father‼️😀😀😀😀😀😀
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.
Thank you SO much for using “based on” and not the nauseatingly incorrect “based off of”.
Intelligent language. It’s a beautiful thing.
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.
Excellent 😊
Very interesting facts!
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
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i know i watched and loved this movie as kid way before it was christmas movie,,
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...
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The fact that blew my mind the most for some reason is that Raphael and Billy Madison are brothers, same dad.
The actual fire engine , is in a museum outside of Niagara Falls , Canada in Chippewa ,Ont.
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.
Viva Ralphie!
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.
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!🎄🎅
👍👍😎✌️🤟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️We have been to the house in Cleveland, OH. Loved the movie and the tour. We hope it survives the pandemic’s downturn.
I love this movie ! Watch it every Christmas!
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.
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.
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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.
I worked for Fanny Farmer Candies and we had a coloring contest that was at the time of the movies release.
Very interesting 👍
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.
I was an usher at a movie theater when this movie came out
Awesome!
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!!🎅🎄
I love this movie in fact i actually got to your there house before it was awesome 😊
Very nice!🎅🎄
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.
There is nothing wrong with the movie A Christmas Story.
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 fire truck is in Chippawa , niagara region ..... It belongs to the Lions club there .
Thanks for the information.
will wheaton would have fit good in this cast basicly same look as stand by me...
#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!!🎅🎄
What do you use to edit?
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”.
@@user-wi6sh6vh8u well, the padding for the teacher was to hide the fact she was pregnant
Shadow boom mic scene… looks like a ghost of a kid shows up for a second and it’s gone
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.
I was just in Cleveland. Wished I had visited the house
Hope you get to see it one day soon!🎅🎄
Goggles kid stole the show!
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
If I never see that movie again. Nooooooop !
As you wish.
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.