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Jim Stevens
The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has chosen 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant films for the year 2000 that the Registry will now work to preserve. The list includes footage shot by Thomas Edison, taken at the 1901 inauguration of President McKinley; the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now"; the quirky wise-guys film "GoodFellas"; the animated ad "Let's All Go to the Lobby," used by theaters to urge patrons to buy popcorn and candy; and the baseline film that put blaxploitation on the star map - "Shaft".
The annual list of motion pictures are chosen for preservation for future generations. Selection for preservation is a high honor, considering that with the additions for 2000, the total chosen so far is a mere 300 films.
The 25 selected films are:
1) Apocalypse Now (1979)
2) Dracula (1931)
3) The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
4) Five Easy Pieces (1970)
5) GoodFellas (1990)
6) Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
7) The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
8) Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
9) The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
10) Little Caesar (1930)
11) The Living Desert (1953)
12) Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
13) Multiple Sidosis (1970)
14) Network (1976)
15) Peter Pan (1924)
16) Porky in Wackyland (1938)
17) President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
18) Regeneration (1915)
19) Salome (1922)
20) Shaft (1971)
21) Sherman's March (1986)
22) A Star is Born (1954)
23) The Tall T (1957)
24) Why We Fight (series) (1943-45)
25) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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