A pair of horns also sounded over the valley.The aging Sister Philippa (with dirty fingernails) complained about the inhospitable climate and weed-infested garden as she looked at an illustrated book on vegetables (radishes, onions, omatoes and lettuce), and then was compelled to turn back to a page of colorful and exotic flowers:The whole garden""s so terribly overgrown, I don""t know where to begin!There seemed to be disorder and chaos as the nuns struggled o adapt and acclimate to their new environment - and to the overwhelming response to their arrival.The 1938 Warner Bros.film is expensively mounted (at $2 million, it was the studio""s largest budgeted film), and beautifully photographed in glorious and brilliant, three-strip Technicolor (Warners"" first use of color) by cinematographers Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio, especially in the Sherwood Forest sequence [filmed in Bidwell Park in Chico, California] and other scenes of costumed pageantry.What makes it precious is that it ends.And I know that now more han ever.And I say it, today of all days, to remind us that time is luck.So don""t waste it living someone else""s life.Make yours count for something.Fight for what matters to you.No matter what.Because even if we fall short, what better way is there to live?Intercutting of scenes occurred between the high-school graduation and the chase sequence in downtown Manhattan.However, he did win the Best Screenplay award for he film.The Best Supporting Actor winner was Welsh-born actor Edmund Gwenn (with his first of two career nominations - and his sole Oscar win) as the believable, plump, department store Kris Kringle - a smiling, real "Santa Claus.