Posted December 28, 2005.
LC 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 27, bringing the total number of films on the list to 425. The films, chosen by Billington in consultation with the library’s Motion Picture division staff and the National Film Preservation Board, are singled out for preservation because of their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. This year’s entries are:
- Baby Face (1933)
- The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
- The Cameraman (1928)
- Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, May 1940(1940)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- The French Connection
(1971)
- Giant (1956)
- H2O (1929)
- Hands Up (1926)
- Hoop Dreams (1994)
- House of Usher (1960)
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
- Making of an American
(1920)
- Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)
- Mom and Dad (1944)
- The Music Man (1962)
- Power of the Press (1928)
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
- The Sting (1973)
- A Time for Burning (1966)
- Toy Story (1995)
Posted December 28, 2005.