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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Screens on 16mm December 23rd at Schlafly Bottleworks
If you didn’t make it to see IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE last Saturday morning at The Hi-Pointe, you’ll have another chance to see it on the big screen in St. Louis next week. Roger B of ‘Roger’s Reels’ will dusting off his 16mm print of the perennial holiday classic and will be screening it Wednesday night, December 23rd, at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Ave, Maplewood, Missouri 63143) beginning at 7pm. Admission is FREE but Roger sets out a donation jar for The National Children’s Cancer Society (NCCS), a worthy, St. Louis-based charity.
It wasn’t until the 1980s when IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE became the perennial holiday favorite it’s known as today. The ultimate feel-good classic from director Frank Capra was a box-office disappointment when it was initially released in 1946. Due to a clerical error in 1974, the film went into public domain and was then shown on every low-rent local access channel in varying degrees of quality for years and was released on VHS by a variety of fly-by-night home video companies – including the infamous colorized version. In 1993 Republic Pictures enforced its claim to the film’s copyright. It stopped being televised as often but by then everyone had fallen in love with its charms and taken to heart its message: It’s not so much about what you leave behind when you die, but it’s more about how you use your life while you live.
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