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Library of Congress adds 'Terminator' to archive
(12-30) 04:00 PST Washington --
One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous lines, "I'll be back," will be back for generations to come, now that 1984's "The Terminator" has been selected for preservation in the nation's film archive.
The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that James Cameron's low-budget film, which made now-Gov. Schwarzenegger a movie star, is one of 25 films being added to the National Film Registry.
Other titles being added to the registry include the groundbreaking all-black-cast film "Hallelujah!" the tale of a cotton sharecropper, from 1929; Richard Brooks' 1967 film adaptation of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"; and 1972's "Deliverance," based on James Dickey's novel about four businessmen on a nightmarish canoe trip in the remote Georgia wilderness.
As time passes, older nitrate- and acetate-based films begin to deteriorate, Librarian of Congress James Billington said in announcing his 2008 selections. The Library of Congress is working to digitize and preserve endangered film and audio files at a new facility built in a bunker in the hills near Culpeper, Va.
With Tuesday's additions, the total number of films in the registry will reach 500.
Curators select films based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic significance, and some aren't feature films at all: This year's list includes a family's home movie "Disneyland Dream," documenting a 1956 trip to the then-newly opened park.
Some were selected for their historical value, such as "Hallelujah!," made as MGM was transitioning from silent to sound films. "White Fawn's Devotion," the oldest film selected this year, was made in 1910 by James Young Deer, a member of the Winnebago tribe and the first documented American Indian movie director.
Others inspired the nation during times of trouble, such as Gary Cooper's "Sergeant York" from 1941, the story of a Tennessee pacifist who captured 130 German soldiers in World War I. It was released just months before the United States entered World War II.
(12-30) 04:00 PST Washington --
One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous lines, "I'll be back," will be back for generations to come, now that 1984's "The Terminator" has been selected for preservation in the nation's film archive.
The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that James Cameron's low-budget film, which made now-Gov. Schwarzenegger a movie star, is one of 25 films being added to the National Film Registry.
Other titles being added to the registry include the groundbreaking all-black-cast film "Hallelujah!" the tale of a cotton sharecropper, from 1929; Richard Brooks' 1967 film adaptation of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"; and 1972's "Deliverance," based on James Dickey's novel about four businessmen on a nightmarish canoe trip in the remote Georgia wilderness.
As time passes, older nitrate- and acetate-based films begin to deteriorate, Librarian of Congress James Billington said in announcing his 2008 selections. The Library of Congress is working to digitize and preserve endangered film and audio files at a new facility built in a bunker in the hills near Culpeper, Va.
With Tuesday's additions, the total number of films in the registry will reach 500.
Curators select films based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic significance, and some aren't feature films at all: This year's list includes a family's home movie "Disneyland Dream," documenting a 1956 trip to the then-newly opened park.
Some were selected for their historical value, such as "Hallelujah!," made as MGM was transitioning from silent to sound films. "White Fawn's Devotion," the oldest film selected this year, was made in 1910 by James Young Deer, a member of the Winnebago tribe and the first documented American Indian movie director.
Others inspired the nation during times of trouble, such as Gary Cooper's "Sergeant York" from 1941, the story of a Tennessee pacifist who captured 130 German soldiers in World War I. It was released just months before the United States entered World War II.
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Disneyland Dream (1956)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Foolish Wives (1922)
- Free Radicals (1979)
- Hallelujah (1929)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- The Killers (1946)
- The March (1964)
- No Lies (1973)
- On the Bowery (1957)
- One Week (1920)
- The Pawnbroker (1965)
- The Perils of Pauline (1914)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- So’s Your Old Man (1926)
- George Stevens WW2 Footage (1943-46)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Water and Power (1989)
- White Fawn’s Devotion (1910)
(or...learn few tricks? :/ )
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