It's a Wonderful Life

Ol' Man Gower's cigar disappears when he sends young George to deliver a prescription.

Just before George speaks to Harry on the phone, George removes a wreath from his arm and places it on a table.

The wreath immediately reappears on his arm.

George's pipe disappears when talking to Violet in his office.

George and Clarence swap sides as they are thrown out of Nick's.

George jumps into the river to save Clarence.

As he is rescuing him Clarence is screaming "help" but his mouth is not moving.

After George storms out of Uncle Billy's house, Uncle Billy lays his head on his arms.

At first he has his arms crossed right over left, then immediately they are crossed left over right.

When George and Clarence are drying off in the bridge keeper's shack the postcard hanging by the thermometer on the wall, next to the door repeatedly disappears and reappears between shots.

When everyone is jumping into the pool during the dance, the same person jumps in twice.

As George approaches Bert and Ernie by Ernie's taxi, and then all three ogle Violet as she walks down the street, the same woman in a print dress, holding the brim of her hat, walks by five times in 30 seconds.

As Violet walks away from George, Ernie, and Bert, Ernie watches her out the window of his taxi.

He stops watching and moves away from the window.

In the next shot, he is watching from the window again.

Snow on Ernie's taxi disappears and reappears when arriving at George's dilapidated house.

When Mary ('Donna Reed' (qv)) throws her rock at an upstairs window of the dilapidated old house, the rock disappears a split second after leaving her hand, and then reappears in the distance just before crashing through the glass.

The roof of the house was a matte painting, added after principal photography by the visual effects department.

When Ms.

Reed threw her rock (and it was her throwing it, not a stand-in), the arc of its flight was a bit too high, and it crossed the matte line for most of its travel.

Consequently, it was covered up by the painting, which was added later.

Apparently the live-action crew did not notice the potential problem when filming the shot.

As George and Mary prepare to drive Martini's family to their new home, Mary (in a close up) is holding the goat's horn/antler.

The scene cuts to an extreme long shot in which her hand is nowhere near the goat.

In the first scene where George finds his brother Harry's grave, the year of death (1919) is clearly visible.

The next scene, it is obscured by snow and George has to dig it out to find the year his brother died.

When George wanders across the street (soon to be joined by Violet), the man approaching him with the pipe suddenly becomes a woman.

After Clarence disappears while being wrestled by Bert the Cop, you can see the shadow of Ernie the Cabdriver, shaking his finger.

However, when the camera shows Ernie, he has both hands on the tree, and then he begins to shake his finger.

During the run inside the Building & Loan, the hat changes position on the coat stand outside George's office.

A hat being held by someone donating money in the Bailey house first has a little snow then a lot of snow then no snow.

Alignment of George's car when it hits the tree Standing position of Potter's bodyguard when Potter talks to Peter Bailey at the Building & Loan.

When Mary and George are walking down the street after the dance, she asks him, "Well, why don't you say it?" The next shot George is heard saying, "I don't know.

Maybe I will say it," but his mouth is not moving at all.

When George arrives at home and finds Mary lying there, he puts his right hand on her right hand and kisses her.

Next shot he is caressing her head with his right hand.

When the "old maid" Mary is closing the library door, she has a wreath in her right arm.

The wreath disappears in the next shot.

When George invites Carter to come in and follows him, he is holding the pipe with his left hand.

But in the shot after someone asks him about hang up the phone, he appears with the pipe in his right hand.

When George crashes his car into the tree, there's not much snow on it, when he gets out of the car to have a look at the damage, there's lots of snow on the car When George and Mary are throwing rocks at the dilapidated house on the way home from the dance, when George throw his rock, the window that Mary is supposed to throw a rock at is missing.

Then when Mary gets ready to throw her rock the window is there.

Young George Bailey is shown working in a drugstore in 1919, but he's standing next to a Coca-Cola Silhouette Girl Thermometer which wasn't produced until 1938.

Mary Bailey does not misspell Frankenstein.

She is spelling Frankincense.

When George visits his father in his office and finds him arguing with Potter, his father is standing behind his desk talking to Potter.

There is a cut away form this but upon return George's father is now on the same side of the desk as Potter.

1919No National Geographic Magazine mentions "Fiji" and "coconuts" in the same subject.

At the scene showing the new houses at Bailey Park, California hills are visible beyond the houses.

The film is set in New York state, which only has much gentler, rolling hills.

At one point George ('James Stewart (I)' (qv)) calls Violet ('Gloria Grahame' (qv)), Gloria.

When Mary puts on "Buffalo Gals" on the phonograph, she starts a ten-inch, yellow-labeled record, but in the next shot, a dark-labeled record is playing.

Also, when Mary breaks the record after the conversation with George, she breaks a twelve-inch, yellow-labeled record instead of the original ten-inch record.

In the drugstore when Mary leans over the counter to whisper in George's ear, a piece of tape suddenly appears on the edge of the counter between George's and Mary's heads.

This was most likely done as a reference mark for the young actors so the focus puller could accurately pull focus.

'James Stewart (I)' (qv)'s toupee falls off after he and 'Donna Reed' (qv) fall into the pool during the Charleston contest.

On Christmas Eve when he is hugging Tommy, George is clean shaven.

By the time he climbs the stairs to check on ZuZu he has a heavy 5 O'clock shadow on his face.

When George Bailey is arguing with Mr.

Potter in the board room after Peter Bailey's death, George says to Potter"What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home.

" We never hear Potter say this, but it is possible he said it prior to the movie cutting to this meeting, which was already in progress.

When George is showing Clarence where Bailey Park is and it is a cemetery insteadGeorge's company would not have developed the land until about the mid thirties.

In the alternate reality, brother Harry died in 1919 and was buried in a then-existing cemetery.

Therefore, the Bailey Park in the primary reality would have had to have been constructed on an active cemetery.

When George is on the bridge, the snow and ice pattern on his left coat shoulder is the same as it was when he was in Potter's office, even though he was in the bar afterward.

Clarence presents himself to George as "AS2".

When George inquires what AS2 stands for, Clarence states "Angel Second Class" - which makes no sense.

On the tombstone, Harry Bailey's years of life are show as 1911-1919, which would make him, at the oldest, eight years old when he died.

However, immediately before George Bailey brushes away the snow to reveal the dates, Clarence states that Harry died when he was nine.

Outstanding: Grade 1 Good: Grade 2 Satisfactory: Grade 3 Inadequate: InadequateOverall rating: Grade 1This is my favorite Hollywood film ever made. No other Hollywood film has ever touched my heart the way this one did.

Frank Capra produced a quartet of timeless films that managed to combine a heartwarming sentimentality with hard edged social commentary. "It's A Wonderful Life," which was initially a box office disappointment, is his masterpiece.

In my opinion"It's a Wonderful Life" can be considered one of the greatest movies to watch this time of the year. Actually we can say that it's even one of the top 100 greatest films of all time you should watch in a lifetime.

The subject says its all. To be honest, this is only a test review to see how this works.

It's a wonderful life is a ride of pure joy from the starting seconds to the last scene of the movie. I had been aught to watch the movie for years, but every single Christmas something had to come between "us".

I know this is an old movie and one cannot expect much from these things. I get that, and I did not expect much.

It really is. I first saw this movie when I was 11 years old(a decade ago) because my Uncle showed it to me that Christmas, as I wanted to see it since it's his favorite movie.

Juggling with your emotions union first viewing, you really do not know what kind of film you are in for her. "It's a Wonderful Life" follows George Bailey as he starts up a banking company, get's married, and becomes one of the wealthiest men in town.

One of those rare films people like visiting on an annual basis, It's A Wonderful Life is a heartwarming look at how every person affects everyone else around him/her without even knowing it.A look at each person's importance in this society and how everything would've been different in the lives of their dearest ones in their absence, It's A Wonderful Life works not solely because of an honest heart at its core but also because of its brilliant direction, nicely crafted script, & well, James Stewart.