Today is the first day of December which means Christmas is just around the corner and people are going to go crazy!!! Decorating, making cookies, buying gifts &... Christmas movies! Freeform (formerly ABC Family) ALWAYS does a 25 day countdown to Christmas with a tonnnn of Christmas movies.

I, like probably most of you, have already started watching Christmas movies though. I mean just yesterday I watched Fred Clause (with Vince Vaughn), & over the weekend I watched 'The Grinch', 'Santa Clause' & 'Four Christmases'! I mean I just freaking love Christmas movies haha!

Now this maybe weird... but I absolutely LOVE learning about films, how people were cast, who got rejected, special effects, improved lines and just any weird fact I can get my hands on. I feel like when you know these facts you look at the film in a new way, which maybe bad sometimes but most of the time it's good haha!

Dimension Films, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Bros.
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So I thought I would feed my weird love and maybe introduce you to a new one haha! Here are 8 weird, yet very interesting facts about Christmas movies that I bet you didn't know!...

1. The animator for "The Nightmare Before Christmas" says the movie was shot at 24 frames per second, meaning that technically the characters had to be posed 24 different times for each SECOND. And it took It took a whole week to finish shooting each minute of the movie. EEK!

2. An episode of "MythBusters" proved that a person's tongue CAN instantly get stuck to a freezing pole like in "A Christmas Story" (p.s. my sister dared me to do this one time while riding a ski lift... I did it, but thank goodness my tongue didn't get stuck hahah!)

3. "The Santa Clause" joke involving '1-800-SPANK-ME' caused massive problems for parents when kids discovered that it connected them to an actual phone sex hotline. Some people actually dialed the number and reported to having racked up hundreds of dollars in phone bills haha!

4. The Grinch was black-and-white in the original Dr. Seuss book, and it was the 1996 animated film director who had the idea to make him green....

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5. Natalie Wood was eight when she filmed "Miracle on 34th Street", and she thought her co-star Edmund Gwenn really WAS Santa Claus.

6. Some of the Jean Shepherd stories that made up "A Christmas Story" were first published in "Playboy" first. Of course, they weren't R-rated, just short stories haha!

7. After the release of "Home Alone 2", the Plaza Hotel in New York City was swamped with families wanting to recreate Kevin's adventure in Suite 411, a.k.a. 'Kevin's Suite,' for $1,100 a night.

8. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" creator Robert May considered the names 'Reginald' and 'Rollo' before settling on 'Rudolph.' He ultimately thought Reginald sounded too British and Rollo sounded too carefree!!

 

[VIA: People ]

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