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Capra’s vision for an authentic set extended beyond developing a formula for better fake snow. The set for Bedford Falls was also an engineering marvel. It was constructed in two months and was one of the longest sets ever made for an American movie. It covered four acres of the RKO ranch and included 75 stores and buildings, a tree-lined center parkway with 20 full grown oak trees, a factory district, and residential areas. Main Street was 300 yards long — three whole city blocks.

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Vince Vaughn and David Dobkin on-set Fred Claus (2007)

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When the film was released in 1946, reviews were mixed. It’s a Wonderful Life fell into relative obscurity for years, until the picture’s copyright was, incomprehensibly, not renewed in 1974. After that, television stations could play it ad nauseum without having to pay royalties. Rediscovered by a whole new generation in the 1970s and ’80s, It’s a Wonderful Life became not only a genuine Christmas classic, but is now regarded as one of the finest movies never to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. “You see, George — you’ve really had a wonderful life,” Clarence (Angel Second Class) says to Stewart’s character near the end of the film. “Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?”

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