25 New Movies Join National Film Registry
We didn't invent them, we're not the only country that makes them, but there's probably no greater American contribution to world culture than the movies. Every year, the Library Of Congress picks out 25 or so movies, documentaries, short films and cartoons to add to the National Film Registry. The Film Registry is set up to preserve films that are "culturally, historically, or asthetically significant". Sometimes that means historic events, like the earliest known test of sound-on-film, from 1925. The classics are there, too; movies like Casablanca, The African Queen, and Apocalypse Now are part of the permanent collection. But the Registry also features movies that became part of our collective culture, like Back To The Future, Blade Runner, and Disney's Beauty And The Beast. Even Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein is included!
Among this year's inductees: the classic full-length cartoon Bambi, Forrest Gump, the still-disturbing thriller Silence Of The Lambs, the 1953 version of War Of The Worlds, and Norma Rae [they like her, they really like her].
The choices come from suggestions of The National Film Preservation Board, as well as imput from the general public. The new additiions bruing the Registry's collection to 575.
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