TRUE OR FALSE: '; It's A Wonderful Life'; was a flop and only got noticed when RKO dumped it 27 years later?

One of the most beloved movies of all time


was trashed by the studio that made it ....





The movie ';It's A Wonderful Life'; was a box


office flop and lost money for RKO.





Long before the advent of video or cable a


movie had basically only one chance to


make revenue -- at the theatre





When the movie bombed --


RKO let it sit in their storehouse and


dropped it off their shelves never to be


seen again





27 YEARS LATER the copyright on the


movie was lost and it was not renewed


{back then, a copyright only lasted 27 years}





That brings us to 1973 { 1946 + 27 }


After the movie became public domain


the tv networks noticed this immediately


and started broadcasting it on the christmas


holidays as a just a filler for other shows that


had been on holiday breaks..





No one - not the studos or the networks -


could have ever guessed that it would


find an audience 27 years later





It has since become a standard as one


of the most beloved


holiday movies of all time --





**





TRUE OR FALSE ???





**TRUE OR FALSE: '; It's A Wonderful Life'; was a flop and only got noticed when RKO dumped it 27 years later?
trueTRUE OR FALSE: '; It's A Wonderful Life'; was a flop and only got noticed when RKO dumped it 27 years later?
kind of a blur but i thought i use to watch that in the 1960s.so i say false if i am wrong blame it on the 60s early70s