Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles
to National Film Registry
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 more titles to the library’s National Film Registry December 18, bringing the total number of films on the list to 325. The films, chosen by Billington in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board, are singled out for preservation because of their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. This year’s entries are:
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- All That Jazz (1979)
- All the King’s Men (1949)
- America, America (1963)
- Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
- Evidence of the Film (1913)
- Hoosiers (1986)
- The House in the Middle (1954)
- It (1927)
- Jam Session (1942)
- Jaws (1975)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
- Memphis Belle (1944)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
- Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Rose Hobart (1936)
- Serene Velocity (1970)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988)
- The Thing From Another World (1951)
Posted December 24, 2001.
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