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Acting Librarian of Congress David Mao announced today the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. These films, which epitomize the diversity and richness of the nation\u2019s cinematic heritage, have been identified as motion pictures that deserve to be preserved because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance.
\"Selecting a film for the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to cinema and America\u2019s cultural and artistic history,\" said Mao. \"The registry is an invaluable way to advance public awareness of the richness, creativity and variety of our nation\u2019s film heritage.\"
Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names to the National Film Registry 25 motion pictures that are \"culturally, historically or aesthetically\" significant. The films must be at least 10 years old. The Librarian makes the annual registry selections after conferring with the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) and Library film staff, as well as considering thousands of public nominations. The public is urged to nominate titles for next year\u2019s registry at the NFPB\u2019s website.
In addition to advising the Librarian of Congress on the annual selection of titles to the National Film Registry, the board also provides counsel on national preservation planning policy. \"The National Film Preservation Board focused much of its attention this year on the recognition of photochemical film as a distinct medium. Emerging digital technologies offer many alternative opportunities, but the board encourages the preservation of film on film. Film remains the best existing archival medium and the board encourages archives and rights-holders to continue to preserve titles on film as they have done in the past,\" NFPB issued in a statement.
Spanning the period 1894-1997, the films named to the registry include Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent and experimental motion pictures. This year\u2019s selections bring the number of films in the registry to 675, which is a small fraction of the Library\u2019s vast moving-image collection of 1.3 million items.
The 2015 registry includes such iconic movies as the 1997 film-noir crime classic \"L.A. Confidential,\" starring Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey; \"Top Gun,\" the 1986 adrenaline-charged Navy drama, starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis; the 1959 melodrama \"Imitation of Life,\" starring Lana Turner; and director Ivan Reitman\u2019s 1984 horror comedy \"Ghostbusters,\" starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
\"Making \u2018Ghostbusters\u2019 was one of the great joys of my life,\" said Reitman. \"It\u2019s an honor to know that a movie that begins with a ghost in a library, now has a spot on the shelves of the Library of Congress. It\u2019s humbling to be part of a collection of extraordinary films that I have loved all my life.\"
One of the more contemporary films on this year\u2019s list is director Frank Darabont\u2019s 1994 movie based on a Stephen King novella. \"I can think of no greater honor than for \u2018The Shawshank Redemption\u2019 to be considered part of our country\u2019s cinematic legacy,\" said Darabont. \"I express my deepest thanks to all those who chose it for inclusion in the National Film Registry. \u2026and most of all to the audiences who embraced our movie and have kept it alive all these years.\"
Also on the list of significant films is one of the earliest film recordings and the oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, which was produced by Thomas Edison\u2019s team of inventors. Recorded in 1894, \"The Sneeze\" became synonymous with the invention of movies. Other films on the list that feature pioneering cinematic techniques are the 1906 \"Dream of a Rarebit Fiend\" and Disney\u2019s 1937 \"The Old Mill.\"
The documentaries and shorts named to the registry include \"Portrait of Jason,\" an exploration of a gay hustler\u2019s life in his own words; Su Friedrich\u2019s 1990 autobiographical tale about the schism between a daughter and her father, \"Sink or Swim\"; and \"The Story of Menstruation,\" a 1946 Disney-produced film seen by nearly 93 million women and girls over two decades.
The silent films selected this year include \"A Fool There Was\" (1915), starring one of cinema\u2019s first vamps, Theda Bara; Douglas Fairbanks 1920 swashbuckler \"The Mark of Zorro\"; and \"Humoresque,\" the 1920 story of the rise of a Jewish immigrant to violin virtuoso. Another addition to the list is the Spanish-language version of Dracula from 1931, which was shot concurrently with the English-speaking film starring Bela Lugosi.
In 2013, the Library of Congress released a report that conclusively determined that 70 percent of the nation\u2019s silent feature films have been lost forever and only 14 percent exist in their original 35 mm format.
The Library\u2019s National and International Outreach Service Unit (NIO) National Programs Directorate manages and provides staff support for the Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board, the National Recording Preservation Board and the National Registries for film and recorded sound. This constitutes part of NIO\u2019s broader mission to administer the public-facing programs and activities of the Library of Congress with the mission of \"broadening awareness and use of the Library and its resources through outreach and external partnerships.\"
Many titles named to the registry have already been preserved by the copyright holder, the filmmaker or archives such as the Library of Congress, Academy Film Archive, George Eastman Museum, Museum of Modern Art or the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In cases where a selected title has not already been preserved, the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation works to ensure that the film will be preserved by some entity and available to future generations, either through the Library\u2019s motion-picture preservation program or through collaborative ventures with other archives, motion-picture studios and independent filmmakers. The Packard Campus is a state-of-the-art facility where the nation\u2019s library acquires, preserves and provides access to the world\u2019s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings. It is home to more than 7 million collection items.
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation\u2019s oldest federal cultural institution. It seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its vast collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library\u2019s rich resources can be accessed through its website at loc.gov.
Being There (1979)
Chance, a simple-minded gardener (Peter Sellers) whose only contact with the outside world is through television, becomes the toast of the town following a series of misunderstandings. Forced outside his protected environment by the death of his wealthy boss, Chance subsumes his late employer\u2019s persona, including the man\u2019s cultured walk, talk and even his expensive clothes, and is mistaken as \"Chauncey Gardner,\" whose simple adages are interpreted as profound insights. He becomes the confidant of a dying billionaire industrialist (Melvyn Douglas, in an Academy Award-winning performance) who happens to be a close adviser to the U.S. president (Jack Warden). Chance\u2019s gardening advice is interpreted as metaphors for political policy and life in general. Jerzy Kosinski, assisted by award-winning screenwriter Robert C. Jones, adapted his 1971 novel for the screenplay which Hal Ashby directed with an understatement to match the subtlety and precision of Sellers\u2019 Academy Award-nominated performance. Shirley MacLaine also stars as Douglas\u2019s wife, then widow, who sees Chauncey as a romantic prospect. Film critic Robert Ebert said he admired the film for \"having the guts to take this totally weird conceit and push it to its ultimate comic conclusion.\" That conclusion is a philosophically complex film that has remained fresh and relevant.
Black and Tan (1929)
In one of the first short musical films to showcase African-American jazz musicians, Duke Ellington portrays a struggling musician whose dancer wife (Fredi Washington in her film debut) secures him a gig for his orchestra at the famous Cotton Club where she\u2019s been hired to perform, at a risk to her health. Directed by Dudley Murphy, who earned his reputation with \"Ballet m\u00e9canique,\" which is considered a masterpiece of early experimental filmmaking, the film reflects the cultural, social and artistic explosion of the 1920s that became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Ellington and Washington personify that movement, and Murphy\u2014who also directed registry titles \"St. Louis Blues\" (1929), another musical short, and the feature \"The Emperor Jones\" (1933) starring Paul Robeson\u2014cements it in celluloid to inspire future generations. Washington, who appeared with Robeson in \"Emperor Jones,\" is best known as \"Peola\" in the 1934 version of \"Imitation of Life.\"