Cal, Thanks for the update on the It's A Wonderful Life copyright situation with Republic. It'll be fascinating to keep an eye on how that one proceeds. I'll only add here one unrelated sidenote of a laserdisc aficionado: Currently, Republic has available the best home video version of the film on disc. The quality of the picture is better than Criterion's, and the sound, though still pretty compromised, is as good as it's ever been on video. I have the version Republic released at $30.00; they recently did a "45th anniversary" edition with extras for a higher price, and I don't know whether it's the same transfer or not. Jeff Clark James Madison Univ.