Talk:A Christmas Story

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Dating “A Christmas Story”

Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

One detail in the movie places the time as no earlier than Christmas of 1947. In the Flick flagpole scene, when the fire truck arrives, a black Chevrolet police car immediately follows from the opposite direction. The black Chevrolet is very clearly a 1948 model which would not have been on sale prior to late in 1947. Shoulderboards (talk) 06:38, 25 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

That doesn't "date" the movie. If anything, it is an anachronism, like numerous others sharp-eyed viewers have pointed out. This was not a big-budget production with endless set designers, prop people, production assistants, etc. The movie's creators often made it clear that the time period was intended to be around 1940, and certainly not post-war. Don Columbia (talk) 21:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Broadcast television

Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Maybe someone can look up when it was that A Christmas Story was first aired on broadcast television in the United States (as opposed to premium cable channels) and add that information to the article. My first experience of this movie was a nighttime broadcast on television at home in the Dayton, Ohio, market around Christmas of 1984 or Christmas of 1985; our household didn't have cable then; I assume it was a network-wide broadcast on ABC, CBS, or NBC, not just a local programming-choice.

President Lethe (talk) 04:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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