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| Snow Machine demonstration |
Last evening, the Science and technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present the holiday classic,
It's a Wonderful Life, from a newly struck 35mm print. The inventors of the snow machine that made its debut with this film won a Scientific or Technical Award in 1948. The synthetic snow that they used replaced bleached cornflakes which had been the previous method of simulating falling snow in motion pictures. Director Frank Capra didn't want crucial snow scenes with his actor, James Stewart, to be underscored by the sound crunching corn flakes nor did he want Stewart to have to record the emotional dialogue for dubbing. RKO Pictures, 1946, 130 minutes.
