I started watching season 4 of The Avengers and am greatly enjoying it (first 10 episodes this month)! It's on tubi but was missing season 1, so I hadn't started it. Then I decided to just go ahead and start with season 2 and was confused when Diana Rigg wasn't listed in the opening credits. So I googled it and discovered that season 1 only has three surviving episodes and that Diana Rigg was in seasons 4-6. I like Honor Blackman too (season 2 & 3) so I will definitely go back and watch those at some point. To give you a glimpse of why I started watching it: Out of Africa => composer John Barry =>James Bond - On His Majesty's Secret Service with Diana Rigg => The Avengers.
* indicates a rewatch
*The Thin Man (1934) - William Powell & Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
*Remember the Night (1940) - Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck
The Perfect Snob (1941) - Charles Ruggles, Cornel Wilde, Lynn Bari, Anthony Quinn
*I'll Be Seeing You (1944) - Ginger Rogers & Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington
*Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Barbara Stanwyck & Dennis Morgan, S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet, Una O'Conner
Smart Woman (1948) - Constance Bennett & Brian Aherne
It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Ray Milland, Paul Douglas, Jean Peters
*The Secret Garden (1949) - Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester, Brian Roper, Reginald Owen
*White Christmas (1954) - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
*We're No Angels (1955) - Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Leo G. Carroll, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Gloria Talbot
5 Against the House (1955) - Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
Kidnapped (1960) - James MacArthur, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Peter O'Toole, Finlay Currie
Out of Africa (1985) - Meryl Streep & Robert Redford
*Mickey's Christmas Carol (1987) - Alan Young
*Elf (2003) - Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen
*Blind Dating (2006) - Chris Pine
The Contractor (2022) - Chris Pine, Ben Foster
Backstairs at the White House (1979 Mini-Series) - ep. 1, loads of familiar faces
Least Favorite Film: Smart Woman and Out of Africa were both just ok. The score for the latter was gorgeous though, as was Mr. Redford ;)
Favorite Movie: Definitely It Happens Every Spring.
Favorite Quote: These two pick-up lines from 5 Against the House.
"I'm a stranger in town, can you direct me to your house?" - Brian Keith
"Excuse me, I'm writing a new telephone book and I'd like to include your name and number."
Novak has a stunning, or as the posters say "sizzling," character introduction.
This month I watched Die Hard for the first time. So the big question is of course: is it a Christmas movie? My verdict is... kind of. It felt like Home Alone but for adults. It put me in a Bruce Willis mood so I finally started watching Moonlighting again (I had watched three episodes earlier this year but couldn't get into it - it's on Tubi now as well as Hulu).
*indicates a rewatch
Fugitive Lovers (1934) - Robert Montgomery & Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy & the Three Stooges
*First Love (1939) - Deanna Durbin & Robert Stack
*Dodge City (1939) - Errol Flynn & Olivia De Havilland, Bruce Cabot, Alan Hale, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Frank McHugh, John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Henry Travers
Young and Willing (1943) - William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Susan Hayward, James Brown, Martha O'Driscoll, Barbara Britton
*Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Barbara Stanwyck & Dennis Morgan, S. Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardner, Sydney Greenstreet, Una O'Conner
The Small Back Room/Hour of Glory (1949) - David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins
*The Heiress (1949) - Olivia de Havilland & Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
*Born to be Bad (1950) - Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer
*Shadow in the Sky (1952) - Ralph Meeker, James Whitmore, Nancy Davis, Jean Hagen
*The Holly and the Ivy (1952) - Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson
*White Christmas (1954) - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
*The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) - Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Eddie Albert
Jubal (1956) - Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson
3:10 to Yuma (1957) - Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Blind Date (1987) - Bruce Willis & Kim Basinger
Die Hard (1988) - Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) - Bruce Willis
*Home Alone (1990) - Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, John Candy
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) - Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
Least Favorite Film: Young and Willing.
Favorite Movie: Definitely 3:10 to Yuma! It's one of those movies where I wanted to watch it again right after it finished. I also really enjoyed Jubal (obviously) and Die Hard.
Here's a few articles/blog posts I enjoyed on the two Glenn Ford films:
Didn't watch as many Christmas movies this month as in past Decembers. I'm still watching Father Knows Best and started Frasier - I've been wanting to rewatch it for a while. Was very excited to receive Allison Macor's book, Making The Best Years of Our Lives, for Christmas! I also got the Wizard of Oz "Horse of a Different Color" Hallmark ornament (unfortunately the batteries it came with were already corroded and I haven't bought any new ones yet so I haven't actually seen it light up).
A Christmas Carol (1938) - Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Ann Rutherford
Q Planes/Clouds Over Europe (1939) - Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson
A Stranger in Town (1943) - Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson
Black Angel (1946) - Dan Duryea & June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford
Gilda (1946) - Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford
Fun on a Weekend (1947) - Eddie Bracken & Priscilla Lane, Tom Conway, Allen Jenkins
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) - Don Castle & Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey
Good Sam (1948) - Gary Cooper & Ann Sheridan
*On Dangerous Ground (1951) - Robert Ryan & Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
All I Desire (1953) - Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Billy Gray
*White Christmas (1954) - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
The Admirable Crichton (1957) - Kenneth More, Sally Anne Howes
A Night to Remember (1958) - Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, David McCallum, Laurence Naismith
*Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) - Robert Wagner & Dolores Hart, Ernie Kovacs, Carolyn Jones
Experiment in Terror (1962) - Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stephanie Powers
Prescription: Murder (1968) - Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Nina Foch
*Elf (2003) - Will Farrall & Zoey Deschanel, Bob Newhart, James Caan, Ed Asner
*The Holiday (2007) - Kate Winslet & Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Cameron Diaz & Jude Law
Least Favorite Film: I only watched the noir I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes because it was a "rarely seen film." I definitely expected to see some dancing though and there wasn't any. Also have no idea how they were going to condemn him to the electric chair literally on circumstantial evidence!
Favorite Movie: A very good month. I highly recommend The Admirable Crichton - think Downton Abbey meets Gilligan's Island. Good Sam was unusual but very funny. I also really enjoyed Q Planes. And of course 49th Parallel, being a Powell and Pressburger film, was beautifully shot.
Favorite Line: "Less enthusiasm, please! This is Britain!" ~ newspaper editor in Q Planes.
Keep an eye out for my end-of-year movie stats post!
This month I finally watched No Time To Die (2021). I really liked the moment at Vesper Lynd's grave where they played her theme in the background and the part near the end where Bond turns and fires a shot down a circular tunnel, mimicking the famous shot in the opening credits of every Bond film.
I also finally watched the Pride and Prejudice (1995) mini-series! It was very good. Colin Firth reminded me of Laurence Olivier but conveyed his emotions to the viewer better - but then again, he had more screen time to do so. I like the Greer Garson one and hated the Kiera Knightly version (I probably need to give it a second chance).
I read My Husband, My Friend by Steve McQueen's first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel. I skimmed some of the chapters on the disintegration of their marriage.
And ICYMI, I finally wrote a post on getting to see the White Christmas (1954) costumes back in January. Here is Part I. Part II has been delayed until next month.
*No Man of Her Own (1932) - Clark Gable & Carole Lombard
The Count of the Old Town (1935-Swedish) - Ingrid Bergman, Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallén
Swedenhielms (1935-Swedish) - Gosta Ekman, Hakan Westergren, Ingrid Bergman, Tutta Rolf
Follow the Fleet (1936) - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott & Harriet Hilliard, Lucille Ball
Dollar (1938-Swedish) - Ingrid Bergman, Tutta Rolf, Hakan Westergren, Edvin Adolphson
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) - Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone
One Special Night (1999) - James Garner & Julie Andrews
*Elf (2003) - Will Farrell, Zoey Deschanel, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner
*Spectre (2015) - Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Christopher Waltz
No Time To Die (2021) - Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Christopher Waltz, Naomie Harris
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1988)
Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers (2019)
Least Favorite Film: The storyline of Leave Her to Heaven (1945) was pretty awful. It was visually stunning though! The costumes! The sets! The outdoor locations! A couple movies were a little weak but not worth mentioning - I've seen worse.
Favorite Movie: Everyone needs to watch Midnight Run (1988). It was so good!!! The Big Punch was interesting. I also enjoyed the Swedish Ingrid Bergman films.
Favorite Quote: Barbara Stanwyck getting a telemarketing call in My Reputation (1946).
There will be a slight change in the monthly Recycled Costume Roundups for 2022. Every three months there will be a QUARTERLY roundup of recycles I have spotted while watching movies. The first one will be at the end of March. At the end of the OTHER months, I will be taking a look at the sumptuous Adrian-designed costumes from Marie Antoinette (1938) and sharing what films they have been recycled in, starting in January.
Bette Davis may have had a reputation for being tough, but she also loved Christmas and even starred in two Christmas films: The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961). Being from New England, she sent cards, decorated the house in the traditional way, with a live tree, stockings, and greenery, listened to Bing Crosby, and wore a red Santa hat (source).
Some of Bette's ornaments that went up for auction.
In her autobiography The Lonely Life, Bette recalled her Christmas' as a child:
It was Daddy's favorite holiday. He personally decorated the tree every year. Christmas Eve was his night. He was our Santa Claus. What a thrill those Christmas mornings were. One would have thought the Magi had visited us from the shower of gifts that spilled into the hallway.
I remember receiving one skate from Uncle Myron and bravely hiding my disappointment. How could I wait a whole year for the other? I smiled bravely - and then the other skate was retrieved from its hiding place in the closet. How everyone roared! Christmas was the only time I remember the whole family's laughing together (21).
And of course, being Bette, her Christmas' could be dramatic, like the time played Santa at her school and caught on fire. She had to apply grease to her face every day to avoid scarring.
My first Christmas there I was Santa Claus. I had no idea that I would play him all my life. At Crestalban it was my role for three years. The third time was almost the last. The tree was lighted by real candles as there was no electricity at the school. That dates me! Under the tree were our gifts from the faculty and each other. I had been told not to go near the tree—my curiosity got the better of me and in an attempt to find my presents the cotton batting on the sleeve of my costume caught fire. I started shaking it to put it out and managed only to spread the flame to my beard. Suddenly I was on fire. I started screaming in terror. I heard voices, felt myself being wrapped in a rug—and then silence all around me. Everyone was quite naturally panicked. When the rug was taken off, I decided to keep my eyes closed. Ever the actress! I would make believe I was blind. "Her eyes!" A shudder of delight went through me. I was in complete command of the moment. I had never known such power.
I eventually opened my eyes to the relief of everyone. Bobby, who had been much impressed when she read The Little Match Girl, turned away with tears streaming down her face, expecting to find her sister a pile of ashes when she looked back at me. The Whiting sisters told me to be a good sport and not spoil the Christmas festivity (25).
Being a Hollywood Star, Bette participated in holiday-themed publicity, from switching on the lights for the 1936 Hollywood Christmas Parade, posing for holiday-themed publicty photos, or filming a pretend scene in 1942 to encouraging everyone to buy War Bonds as Christmas gifts.
Christmas at the Hollwood Canteen, which Bette had co-founded with John Garfield, could be emotional.
Watching the faces of the GIs trying so hard to be cheerful made all of us die a little. How homesick they all were. One Christmas Eve there was a knock at the kitchen door of the Canteen. I opened it up and there stood Bing Crosby and his three very young sons. He grinned at me and said, "I thought maybe we could help out tonight." They sag Christmas carols for the next hour. There was not a dry eye in the Canteen (This 'n That, 97).
Decorating the Canteen.
I will leave you with some tips from Bette for hosting a party:
I NEVER thought I'd say this but... I have a thing for Robert Ryan now. It started last month with Tender Comrade and has continued this month with me watching whatever movies of his I could get my hands on. I also discovered there is a shameful lack of Robert Ryan gifs out there. I'm going to have to fix that...
Also this month I watched, you guessed it, Christmas movies. I didn't watch some of the ones I usually watch - Miracle on 34th Street, The Bishop's Wife - as it literally felt like I had just watched them. Some were not classic Christmas films but set at Christmas (Susan Slept Here, Period of Adjustment).
Anne of Green Gables (1934) - Anne Shirley, Tom Brown
A Slight Case of Murder (1938) - Edward G. Robinson
Golden Boy (1939) - William Holden & Barbara Stanwyck, Adolph Menjou, Lee J. Cobb
*Meet John Doe (1941) - Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Manpower (1941) - Edward G. Robinson & Marlene Dietrich, George Raft
Dressed to Kill (1941) - Lloyd Nolan
Rage in Heaven (1941) - Robert Montgomery & Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
One Foot in Heaven (1941) - Fredric March & Martha Scott
The Constant Nymph (1943) - Joan Fontaine & Charles Boyer
Marriage is a Private Affair (1944) - Lana Turner & John Hodiak, James Craig
Action in Arabia (1944) - George Sanders, Virginia Bruce
*Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Barbara Stanwyck & Dennis Morgan, S.Z. Sakall
Homecoming (1948) - Clark Gable & Lana Turner, John Hodiak, Anne Baxter
Berlin Express (1948) - Robert Ryan & Merle Oberon
Act of Violence (1949) - Van Heflin & Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
The Breaking Point (1950) - John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Three Little Words (1950) - Fred Astaire & Vera-Ellen, Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) - Doris Day & Danny Thomas
Duchess of Idaho (1951) - Esther Williams & Van Johnson
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Lovely to Look At (1952) - Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Marge & Gower Champion, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
The Naked Spur (1953) - James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker
Dream Wife (1953) - Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr
Pushover (1954) - Fred MacMurray & Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone
*White Christmas (1954) - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
Susan Slept Here (1954) - Dick Powell & Debbie Reynolds
*Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) - Clifton Webb & Dorothy McGuire, Louis Jourdan & Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi & Jean Peters
Betrayed (1954) - Clark Gable & Lana Turner, Victor Mature
The Last Voyage (1960) - Robert Stack & Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
Period of Adjustment (1962) - Jane Fonda & Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa
*Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) - Alan Young
*Elf (2003) - Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner
Psych: The Movie (TV Movie-2017) - James Roday, Dule Hill, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson, Zachary Levi
Least Favorite Movie: Lovely to Look At but ONLY because I can't stand Howard Keel. Oh, and the end of Susan Slept Here was pretty disturbing. Apparently there were no 35 year old actors in Hollywood that year and the closest they could get was a 50 year old actor that looked 50.
Favorite Movie: There were lots of movies I really enjoyed this month but my favorite performance by far was Danny Thomas in I'll See You in My Dreams. I was so excited that TCM aired it this month as I read Thomas's autobiography recently and really wanted to see it after reading his memories of the film. He was adorable in it and I learned that his character Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics to a couple of my favorite songs. I'll leave you with this scene.
The 1946 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was special for two reasons: It was the first year the parade was televised locally (it would go national in 1947) and it appeared in a movie that was destined to become a perennial Christmas classic - Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
That's right! The crew filmed the actual 1946 parade and Edmund Gwenn actually played Santa Claus. Of the two million live spectators that year, I wonder how many people watching recognized the movie star or realized it was being filmed for a movie that would be coming to theaters the following summer!
When I first started this blog, my second post was a list of Halloween Films. They were almost all comedies. Since then I have watched some scarier (to me) films that I would like to share with you:
The Leopard Man (1943) - another Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur classic, this one came out the year after the more well-known cult-film Cat People (1942). Set in New Mexico, it features Lewton's signature shadows and sounds, and even the same panther!
That moment when you show up to a party in a killer dress and with a panther
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The Uninvited (1944) - starring Ray Milland and Gail Russell, this haunting film is a must-watch. Milland and his sister (Ruth Hussey) buy a cheap mansion that happens to be haunted. At night they hear a woman moaning but no one can ever be found. Gail Russell is a neighbor who lived there as a child - until her mother fell, or jumped, of the nearby cliff. When Russell comes to visit her new neighbors she falls into a trance.
A séance is always a good idea.
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The Innocents (1961) - a classic starring Deborah Kerr, a governess who is convinced that the two children in her charge are possessed by a couple that died there. I only watched a little bit of it on TCM, but I plan to watch the whole film soon.
What do you first think of when you see this scene? Did any of you think asbestos? How about cornflakes? If you're like me you most likely thought, "Christmas in Connecticut! I love that scene! The snow is so pretty."
Well, you're right, it IS Christmas in Connecticut and the snow is pretty! Wait, did I just say snow?
Everyone knows that Hollywood, California, is where movies are made. Everyone ALSO knows it doesn't snow there. So how did scenes like the one in Christmas in Connecticut come about? Did the entire movie set pack up and head to where the real snow was? Did they bring the snow to Hollywood? Or did they make their own?
Click here in case you now need to listen to "Snow."
Silent, and not so silent Snow
Snow scenes in films have been around since the beginning of movies themselves. In order to have them be as realistic as possible, the whole cast and crew would pack up in search of snow and ice. And while it looked nice on film, there were numerous problems and accidents associated with it. Camera's froze, actors fell into ice waters or suffered hypothermia leading to lost toes and rheumatism, got lost in snow storms, fell down mountains... pretty much anything that could happen, did.
A popular silent film, The Gold Rush (1925) starring Charlie Chaplin, featured both real snow and fake. The film was shot in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and made to look like the famous Chilkoot Pass in Alaska. However, after Chaplin came down with pneumonia, the crew headed back to Hollywood and constructed snow-covered mountains with timber, chicken wire, and burlap covered with salt and flour. Other early snow scenes used everything from white pine sawdust, scraps of paper mixed with salt (thrown in front of a wind machine it made very convincing snowfall), cotton wool, paraffin (for ice) and crushed gypsum (from their own mine), the last of which probably contributed to the early death of actor Lon Chaney, who died of lung cancer in his mid-forties.
UPDATE (from a tweet by the TCM account: "The fake ice and snow consisted of 200 tons of plaster, 285 tons of salt, and 100 barrels of flour. The blizzard scenes required four cart-loads of confetti."
The most popular form of early movie snow was cornflakes painted white or bleached, mixed with shaved gypsum. Yes, cornflakes. However, once sound entered the picture, cornflakes posed a huge problem: when the actors walked on it you couldn't hear what they were saying! Dialogue had to be added later.
Hey, I've got an idea!
In the late 1920s, a firefighter had a "bright" idea. Why not use Asbestos? The chrysotile asbestos fibers were cheap, versatile, and thought to be harmless (we now know it causes mesothelioma as the loose fibers were easily inhaled). A huge plus was that it didn't make noises when actors walked on it, an important feature once synchronized sound in film was the norm. It also wouldn't catch fire, something that cotton batting was in danger of doing (though in reality not much of a threat). Films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Holiday Inn (1942) feature the harmful substance, sold under the harmless sounding names of "Pure White" and "Snow Drift." It was used not only in movies, but on the stage, department store window displays, and as decoration in homes throughout the 30s and early 40s. The product was popular up until the start of WWII, when asbestos was needed instead for ships, planes, and other military equipment. However, the product was still used all the way up until the mid-50s.
Don't breath it in, Bing!
It's a Wonderful Idea
In the summer of 1946, a new "snowstorm" was brewing. The film was the now iconic classic It's a Wonderful Life starring the just-returned-from-the-war veteran James Stewart and it needed snow... lots of it. Shaved ice could be used for icy paths and plaster would be used for snowbanks and spryed on trees but for the snow they wanted something different. Russell Sherman, RKO studio's head of special effects and a much more brilliant man than that fireman, used his engineering skills and some post-WWII technology to come up with silent, unmeltable, and realistic-looking fake snow. The chemical mixture he came up with used foamite—a material used in fire extinguishers—and mixed it with sugar, water, and even soap flakes. It was sprayable and could be quickly blasted over set pieces using wind machines. The film used 6,000 gallons of the substance, which "clung convincingly to clothing and created picture-perfect footprints, while generating nothing like the sound of trod-upon breakfast cereal." Sherman, along with the rest of the RKO Special Effects Department received a Class III Scientific or Technical Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "developing a new method of simulating falling snow on motion picture sets."
Sherman's snow, called Phomaide, revolutionized snow in film, yet as time went on, other methods were developed to meet different needs. Dr. Zhivago (1965) called for Siberian ice. Since filming in Russia was out of the question, special effects guy Eddie Fowler used hot wax and marble dust to create a glittering, frozen tableau.
Snowmaking Today
Today, the majority of snow in films comes from one company: Snow Business, located in Britain. They boast over 200 different types of eco-friendly snow made from a variety of materials, including recycled paper and plastics, that is both safe and comfortable for actors. Looking at all of the different types of "snow" on their website is amazing; one would swear it is real. There are pages for settled snow, falling snow, ice, frost, falling ash, icicles, dirty snow, clean snow, indoor snow, the combinations are endless! They also provide real snow, which can last up to three days if stored properly.
Digital Snow
The last kind of movie snow is digital snow. Technology has advanced so far since the advent of films. Where once studio workers would painstakingly make an entire field of individual poppies (The Wizard of Oz), now huge vistas, fields, mountains, building, bridges - all can be created digitally using green-screen technology. So when you see huge icy mountains in a film, they could be real or they could be digital! We've come a long way!
