The cultural significance of the movies just added to the National Film Registry
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today, the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, announced the 25 films for entry into the National Film Registry. |
| 0:08.0 | The registry, which began back in 1989, now includes some 900 movies chosen for their cultural, historic, and aesthetic importance to preserving the nation's film heritage. |
| 0:19.0 | Our senior arts correspondent, Jeffrey Brown, has more for our arts and culture series, Canvas. |
| 0:24.6 | Nobody puts baby in a corner. |
| 0:27.6 | An iconic line from an 80's romantic classic. |
| 0:30.6 | A graphic and brutal scene that helped define the horror genre. |
| 0:35.6 | I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. |
| 0:43.3 | And the story of an American hero told in one of its seminal sports films. |
| 0:48.3 | Three of the 25 films chosen by a Library of Congress panel from the more than 6,700 nominated by the public for consideration this year. |
| 0:58.0 | Led by University of Chicago Cinema Studies historian and Turner Classic Movies host Jacqueline Stewart, |
| 1:05.0 | the panel worked to choose titles that demonstrate a wealth of films and genres. |
| 1:10.0 | The oldest name this year, Annabelle's Serpentine Dance, |
| 1:13.6 | made in 1895 by the Edison Manufacturing Company. |
| 1:17.6 | From the dawn of cinema, the silent short is one of a series of recordings of popular dances |
| 1:23.6 | performed by dancer and actress Annabelle Moore. |
| 1:26.6 | The newest films, 2007's No Country for Old Men, and the Social Network from 2010. |
| 1:34.3 | People want to go on the internet and check out their friends, |
| 1:36.3 | so why not build a website that offers that friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around. |
| 1:42.3 | The award-winning drama about Mark Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook, written by Aaron Sorkin |
| 1:47.5 | and directed by David Fincher. |
| 1:49.6 | Other popular Hollywood hits include the 1984 comedy, Beverly Hills Cop. |
| 1:54.9 | You know, this is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in my life. |
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