Posted on 12/29/2005 1:11:34 PM PST by presidio9
The documentary Hoop Dreams and footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are among the 25 movies picked this year for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress in Washington.
Fictional films chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington range from the Buster Keaton comedy The Cameraman to the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street to the 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The 2005 selections bring to 425 the total number of films being preserved by the Library of Congress or other institutions involved in the project.
"Sadly, our enthusiasm for watching films has proved far greater than our commitment to preserving them," Billington said.
Half the movies made before 1950 and 80 percent to 90 percent of those produced before 1920 have disappeared, he said. He added that more are lost each year, partly because of the recently discovered "vinegar syndrome" that attacks the safety film used to preserve most of them.
The most recent movie making the list is 1995's Toy Story, the first full-length computer-animated feature.
The oldest film selected this year is a documentary from 1906 of the
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what, no "repo man"?
Let's do the Time Warp again!
Don't get hot and flah - ustered...
Use a bit of Mustah - urd..........
No "Red River"?
No "She wore a yellow Ribbon"?
No "Rio Bravo"?
Baaaaaah!
Another movie on the list this year is the old sexploitation movie "Mom and Dad." This drive-in feature was gross, gross, gross, with photos of syphilitic sex organs and all sorts of other stuff.
Today, it's a cult classic.
Kungfu Hustle!
Antici.....................pation
Antici...(CONSTA! CONSTA! CONSTA! CONSTA!)....pation
What about Police Academy 11? If its on the AMC channel ain't it a classic?
Doesn't anybody KNOCK anymore??
No "Searchers" either. Dang it.
The three cowboy movies you mentioned were disqualified for lack of pudding.
The list, from http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2005.html
1) Baby Face (1933)
2) The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
3) The Cameraman (1928)
4) Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
5) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
6) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7) The French Connection (1971)
8) Giant (1956)
9) H2O (1929)
10) Hands Up (1926)
11) Hoop Dreams (1994)
12) House of Usher (1960)
13) Imitation of Life (1934)
14) Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
15) Making of an American (1920)
16) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
17) Mom and Dad (1944)
18) The Music Man (1962)
19) Power of the Press (1928)
20) A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
21) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
22) San Francisco Earthquake and FireApril 18, 1906 (1906)
23) The Sting (1973)
24) A Time for Burning (1966)
25) Toy Story (1995)
photos of syphilitic sex organs and all sorts of other stuff.
Does the bent one get residuals for that
Just put a DVD on file. It will be a lot cheaper.
Will future generations really suffer if, somehow, Fast Times or Rocky Horror have mercifully decayed into dust?
(MORE THAN YOU HAVE!)
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