![]() ![]() Local TV stations found it to be a good way to paper over the long winter afternoons of December, their viewers discovered how good it is, and it became the classic it is today.īut if you were to tell Capra back in the late ’40s that his film would go on to become a perennial favorite, he might have scoffed at you. It’s a Wonderful Life’s status as an American classic is owed largely to a quirk of paperwork - after National Telefilm Associates, which owned the film after a long, convoluted chain of corporate sales, failed to renew its copyright in 1974, the movie fell into the public domain. And, yes, there are far more influential ones. My favorite movie is Frank Capra’s immortal It’s a Wonderful Life, which celebrates its 70th birthday December 20, 2016.
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