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Just started. Every year I'm amazed at how much this film from 70 years ago holds up. Cinematic masterpiece.
sharea classic for sure.
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I concur. I love old movies. They were very well acted and well done. I would've loved to have been around during the era of "Old Hollywood".
shareLord, you and me both. These movies just reinforce the fact I hate being a member of this current generation. Everything seemed so simple and easy going back then (although, yes I know there were many troubles back then).
shareYes, they had troubles but everything was hush hush back then. A big problem was pills. Stars were forced to take uppers to stay awake for long shooting schedules and then take downers to sleep. With stars being contracted to one studio at a time they either did what studio execs wanted or they wouldn't be able to work.
shareAnyone keeping track of the number of commercials NBC is cramming into this broadcast? I think I counted 15 different ads in the first commercial break alone, which came about 10 minutes in. That's why I'm not spending 3 hours watching this. Hee-haw, NBC, if you get my drift.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
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When it goes to commercial I'm switching to a myriad of college football games, I have this on DVD but something about watching it on network TV strikes me.
shareLove this movie; try and catch it every year. It seems like it's coming on earlier and earlier...or maybe I'm just getting older and older, lol.
shareI remember it playing on Thanksgiving or the Sunday following. From my recollection finding it on even as late as December 3rd isn't common.
shareI think NBC's current tradition of playing the movie is to play it the first Saturday of December and then again on Christmas Eve.
I'm in my early 30's but I still remember the movie playing on multiple channels all throughout the Christmas seasons.
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I'm in my early 30's but I still remember the movie playing on multiple channels all throughout the Christmas seasons.
Yes, every time a bell rings, It's A Wonderful Life was playing somewhere. I remember that too. But I also remember when the movie wasn't shown at all in the 1970's.
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Well I can honestly say I don't recall putting an effort to watch this movie on my own until about 10 years ago when I was old enough to really appreciate the masterpiece it is. I do remember it being a struggle finding it playing more than once during the season, and only on network TV. Never any luck on TNT, TBS, USA etc.
shareI'm in my early 30's but I still remember the movie playing on multiple channels all throughout the Christmas seasons.
If I remember right the story behind that was that the copyright (or whatever it is for films) had been allowed to lapse sometime in the early 1980s, so it appealed to many small TV stations to air it -- over and over. Then in the mid-1990s NBC bought the rights to it. I remember it was always shown on Thanksgiving for a while when NBC first got it. share
That's my understanding as well. But my big question is how does one go about buying the rights to something that's in the public domain? Seems to me if I could figure that out, there might be a decent profit in it. LOL
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Paramount, the owner of the original film (through various corporate buyouts) bought the rights to the story and renewed the copyright. So technically, a station could show the film itself, but minus the audio which contains the story. Comedy Central or one of those channels did just that about 10 years ago - cutting it down to 60 min and adding in a brand new soundtrack which told a different story.
shareI agree. It's the same for The Wizard of Oz. I have that on blu-ray but when it's on TV it takes me back to being a kid when it only came on once a year.
shareA tale well told of sacrifice and greed never gets old.
shareAmazing film