{"id":735,"date":"2012-12-19T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/19\/national-film-registry-adds-new-films-for-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:10:00","slug":"national-film-registry-adds-new-films-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/19\/national-film-registry-adds-new-films-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"National Film Registry adds new films for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/today\/pr\/2012\/12-226.html\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iR7-XMHvfdM\/UNIQ2VNNFjI\/AAAAAAAAARQ\/nh_l6SLDEc0\/s200\/national-film-registry-logo-400x300.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The National Film Registry, a subset of the Library of Congress, preserves a collection of American films deemed culturally or historically significant. Each year, the NFR adds 25 new films to their archives, ranging from major recent hits to silent shorts from the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/today\/pr\/2012\/12-226.html\">has released this year&#8217;s batch<\/a>, and their diversity streak continues. New inductees include <i>The Matrix, A Christmas Story<\/i>, a silent adaptation of <i>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/i>, a documentary about the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair, and an early experimental color film test. See the National Film Registry for the rationale behind their picks, or read on for a full list&#8230; <br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050086\/\">3:10 to Yuma<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 7654<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052561\/\">Anatomy of a Murder<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 546<\/li>\n<li>The Augustas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0042276\/\">Born Yesterday<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 10672<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054698\/\">Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 501<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085334\/\">A Christmas Story<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 1939<\/li>\n<li>The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066999\/\">Dirty Harry<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 1672<\/li>\n<li>Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2<\/li>\n<li>The Kidnappers Foil<\/li>\n<li>Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Tests<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104694\/\">A League of Their Own<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 1384<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0133093\/\">The Matrix<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 10154<\/li>\n<li>The Middleton Family at the New York World\u2019s Fair<\/li>\n<li>One Survivor Remembers \u2014 HU DVD 2372<\/li>\n<li>Parable<\/li>\n<li>Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia \u2014 HU VHS 6471<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102943\/\">Slacker<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 1347<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024601\/\">Sons of the Desert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070726\/\">The Spook Who Sat by the Door<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0244251\/\">They Call It Pro Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088275\/\">The Times of Harvey Milk<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 1267<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067893\/\">Two-Lane Blacktop<\/a> \u2014 HU DVD 6504<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0004743\/\">Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0004825\/\">The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England<\/a> \u2014 DVD 3776<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Film Registry, a subset of the Library of Congress, preserves a collection of American films deemed culturally or historically significant. Each year, the NFR adds 25 new films to their archives, ranging from major recent hits to silent shorts from the 19th century. The Library of Congress has released this year&#8217;s batch, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[239,290],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-national-film-registry","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}