" From the balcony, they looked down on a racetrack with jockeys riding clockwise on four-legged fathiers (or space horses).The film""s technical wizardry is extraordinary, especially in the film""s closing scene (a complex, trick composite shot) - the special visual effects of Ub Iwerks were nominated for an Academy Award (the film""s sole nomination), but the Oscar was lost toCleopatra (1963).Mr.Bailey sounds out his "born older" son George about what he wants to do in his future.George boasts about his plans:Oh well, you know what I""ve always talked about.Build things.Design new buildings.Plan modern cities.Mr.Bailey also asks about his son""s feelings about aking over the Building and Loan.Exuberant about leaving Bedford Falls and traveling in his future, George declines his father""s offer o return back home after college to take over the business:I-I couldn""t face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.Others of hem opened with a barrage of gunfire on Jason (but he survived), when he was found stalking engineer Crutch (Phillip Williams) in a cargo bay work area.