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By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When film director Frank Capra died last week at 94, the world lost a visionary artist whose movies are among the genre’s greatest achievements. Bob Scott of Castleton, however, also lost a close friend. «
Mr. Scott first met the director, whose work he had admired as a young actor, while planning an observance of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976 by the U.S. Information Agency. Mr. Capra, whose family emigrated from Sicily to the United States when he was only six years old, was a very patriotic American, and the agency flew him around the world that year.
Mr. Scott during the next 15 years would stay in close touch with Mr. Capra, admiring the man’s sincerity, patriotism and the breadth of his accomplishments.
“I would call Frank Capra the true Renaissance man. He was an inventor, an engineer, a scientist, a photographer and a patriot,” said Mr. Scott.
Mr. Capra’s own life story reads like it might be the screenplay to one of his movies. In the words of a Defense Department document relating to his return to Bisaquino, his hometown in Sicily, in 1976, Mr. Capra had a “rags-to-riches, classic American immigrant climb to success,” and his movies were a “vindication of American values.”
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