We are lucky there are still a few crazy geniuses like Ted Turner in America today. For all his many faults, he's done something no one else managed. He--almost single-handedly, though we could dispute this--made film preservation a commercially viable venture. It all began when he invented Turner Classic Movies.
Thanks to Turner and TCM (and the American Film Institute and the many fans of classic films who worked for preservation before Turner came along) we are still able to see Fred Astaire dance in a wonderful film like
The Band Wagon more than half a century after Astaire made his silken moves.
