'Tis the season... A Christmas Story

[ohairas]

Ok y'all, I've already watched this like five times already this season. My baby boy loves it, but I think he mostly likes the music!

Anyhoo, I was wondering about the actual year it was supposed to have taken place? I'm thinking 39 since that's the year Wizard of Oz came out. I suppose it could be the early 40's tho, looking at some of the clothes.

What to you all think?

Nikki

 

[BegintheBeguine]

It is 1940 and they live in Indiana. Awwwww, I liked reading that your baby likes this movie.

 

[Nick Charles]

I watched it last night after work and read this today. Here is what Wikipideia says about the story.

Based off references to popular culture in the film, the story takes place no earlier than 1939, when the MGM film The Wizard of Oz came out, and no later than 1942, the last year of the Little Orphan Annie radio broadcasts.[4] This dating is slightly later than author Jean Shepherd's own childhood (he was 18 years old in 1939) but earlier than that of director Bob Clark (who was born in 1941). The World War II time frame is consistent with the presence of a toy tank in the shop window, the latter of which is peered into by men and women in military uniforms. Despite the many props and other references to this era, however, one can find the occasional anachronism, such as Scut Farkus (and the Old Man in a fantasy sequence) wearing a coonskin cap, a piece of apparel more evocative of the 1950s. This may be seen as a way to generalize the nostalgia for Ralphie's childhood as applying to later time periods as well

 

[ohairas]

Thanks all.... that's what I thought but since I'm trying to learn more about each era I didn't want to assume. I had seen the lady in uniform while looking in the toy store window, and yes the tanks, I forgot about that.
I don't want to look like a goof when I'm trying to teach my son this stuff when he's really old enough to watch it and "get" it.

Nikki