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 17, bringing the total number of films on the list to 350. 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:
- Alien (1979)
- All My Babies (1953)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- The Black Stallion (1979)
- Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (1925)
- The Endless Summer (1966)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- From Stump to Ship (1930)
- Fuji (1974)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
- Melody Ranch (1940)
- The Pearl (1948)
- Punch Drunks (1934)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Star Theatre (1901)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
- This Is Cinerama (1952)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Through Navajo Eyes (series) (1966)
- Why Man Creates (1968)
- Wild and Wooly (1917)
- Wild River (1960)
Posted December 23, 2002.
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