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Guess what, Mango?

What's that? Will?

So I was flipping through the channels the other day, and there was this sitcom on TV.

And I started thinking about this because there was snow on the ground.

And I was wondering how they make that fake snow for TV and movies, because you think about all the things that could

melt the snow there. Like there's these hot lights, they have these long shoots, and they can't use

real snow, obviously, so I looked it up. And what did you find out? Well, the good news, a lot of it,

it's edible mango. You can eat all that snow. So in early movies, they use corn flakes that were painted white

to make snow. But then when sound came into film, you know, obviously all the crunchy sounds

would be too loud if they were stepping on it. So they had to find a replacement. And over the years,

sets have used everything from firefighting foam to instant potato flakes to flour, even marble dust.

But the stuff that used today is actually mostly paper, believe it or not.

That's pretty weird. I feel like paper is the last thing I would have expected for like fake

snow in movies. Yeah, I wouldn't have thought about that either. But, you know, it's available in

all different grains and sizes, depending on what kind of snow you're looking for.

But actually, the process of making it is pretty cool.

So the paper snow is packaged in these huge bales, and then it shot through a special hose that lightly dampens the paper so that it will stick to whatever it lands on, just like snow.

And according to Roland Hathaway of the Snow Business Hollywood,

are you familiar with Snow Business Hollywood?

Oh, yeah.

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