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n2play t1_je6a1ea wrote

WoO has so many simple but imaginative effects that looked amazing on film that would just be CGI today.

The tornado was actual tornado footage when shown in the far distance but a coiling stocking with miniatures of the farm when shown approaching the house and a large burlap sack suspended from a truck running on an overhead track emitting a cloud of dust when shown close up.

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HawkeyeTen t1_je68e2x wrote

Never forget Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, actually practiced with Tommy Guns and other weaponry in World War II. He was ready to fight alongside the British army if the Nazis landed on the Isles and tried to take London. No matter what you may think of that family in recent years, that father-daughter duo was something else.

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