For over 60 years, families have enjoyed Frank Capra's classic Christmas film "It's a Wonderful Life." Jimmy Stewart, as down-and-out banker George Bailey, learns the value of family and life's blessings through a "Christmas Miracle" in the small town of Bedford Falls.

On the internet it proves difficult to alter reality to impart life lessons. But we can transmit the gift of information. For you to learn more about "It's a Wonderful Life," here are five interesting tidbits about the film:

Dreaming of a White Christmas and a Silent Night

In movies of the 1940s, effects departments routinely used corn flakes painted white as snow. However, as actors walked through the "corn snow," the crunching of the flakes was so loud that dialogue couldn't be recorded.

Frank Capra wanted live dialogue in his snow scenes, so he called upon the effects department at RKO to create a new kind of artificial snow. The result: a new chemical snow, blown through a wind machine, for a truly silent night.

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Wishing a very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! What fun presents did everyone get? Or, if you're like me and don't celebrate Christmas, how are you spending this lovely day off?

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