Filling out the past years so that we have a dictionary of all the NFR movies and their short description
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""
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Extract NFR films by induction year from the LOC complete registry page.
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"""
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import re
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import os
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
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import requests
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def extract_films_by_year(year):
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"""
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Extract films inducted in a specific year from the LOC registry page.
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"""
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url = "https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/"
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print(f"Fetching {url}...")
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resp = requests.get(url, timeout=30)
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resp.raise_for_status()
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soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, 'html.parser')
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# Find the table with film listings
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table = soup.find('table', class_='sortable-table')
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if not table:
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print("Could not find table")
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return {}
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films = {}
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# Iterate through table rows
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rows = table.find_all('tr')
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for row in rows:
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cells = row.find_all(['th', 'td'])
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if len(cells) >= 3:
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title_cell = cells[0]
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year_cell = cells[1]
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inductee_cell = cells[2]
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title = title_cell.get_text(strip=True).strip()
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film_year_str = year_cell.get_text(strip=True).strip()
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inductee_year_str = inductee_cell.get_text(strip=True).strip()
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# Check if this film was inducted in the target year
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try:
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inductee_year = int(inductee_year_str)
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if inductee_year == year:
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# Parse film year (may be range or single year)
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film_year_match = re.search(r'(\d{4})', film_year_str)
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if film_year_match:
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film_year = int(film_year_match.group(1))
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else:
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film_year = year # fallback
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films[title] = {
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"year": film_year,
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"description": f"[NFR {year} inductee - film released in {film_year}]"
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}
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except ValueError:
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continue
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print(f"Found {len(films)} films inducted in {year}")
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return films
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def generate_nfr_file(year, films):
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"""Generate a Python file with NFR data for a given year."""
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if not films:
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print(f"No films found for {year}")
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return
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filename = f"scripts/nfr_data/nfr_{year}.py"
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code = f'''# {year} National Film Registry inductees
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
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# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
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NFR_{year} = {{
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'''
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for title, data in sorted(films.items()):
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title_escaped = title.replace("'", "\\'").replace('"', '\\"')
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desc_escaped = data["description"].replace("'", "\\'").replace('"', '\\"')
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code += f''' "{title_escaped}": {{
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"year": {data["year"]},
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"description": "{desc_escaped}"
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}},
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'''
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code += "}\n"
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with open(filename, 'w') as f:
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f.write(code)
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print(f"✓ Saved {len(films)} films to {filename}")
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def main():
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import os
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# Create output directory if needed
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os.makedirs("scripts/nfr_data", exist_ok=True)
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# Extract films for years 1991-1997
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years_to_extract = [1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997]
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for year in years_to_extract:
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print(f"\n{'='*60}")
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print(f"Extracting films for NFR year {year}")
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print(f"{'='*60}")
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films = extract_films_by_year(year)
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generate_nfr_file(year, films)
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print(f"\n{'='*60}")
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print("EXTRACTION COMPLETE")
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print(f"{'='*60}")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""
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Batch generate NFR dictionaries for multiple years.
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This script automates the process of generating NFR data dictionaries
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for years 1989-2023 by searching for and fetching LOC announcement pages.
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Usage:
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python3 scripts/batch_generate_nfr.py --years 2020-2023
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python3 scripts/batch_generate_nfr.py --years 2015,2016,2017
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python3 scripts/batch_generate_nfr.py --all # Process all years 1989-2023
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"""
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import argparse
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import subprocess
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import sys
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from pathlib import Path
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# NFR started in 1989
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FIRST_NFR_YEAR = 1989
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CURRENT_YEAR = 2024 # Update this as needed
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# Known announcement URLs (add more as we find them)
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KNOWN_URLS = {
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2024: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-named-to-national-film-registry-for-preservation/s/55d5285d-916f-4105-b7d4-7fc3ba8664e3",
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2023: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-selected-for-preservation-in-national-film-registry/s/aa4bef48-95f6-486f-882d-110613633b1e",
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2022: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-eclectic-films-chosen-for-national-film-registry/s/8c41f7a1-b9d9-4f9e-b252-4795b73a4aaf",
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}
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def parse_year_range(year_spec):
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"""
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Parse year specification into a list of years.
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Examples:
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"2020-2023" -> [2020, 2021, 2022, 2023]
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"2015,2016,2017" -> [2015, 2016, 2017]
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"2020" -> [2020]
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"""
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years = []
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# Handle comma-separated list
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if ',' in year_spec:
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for year_str in year_spec.split(','):
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years.append(int(year_str.strip()))
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# Handle range
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elif '-' in year_spec:
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start, end = year_spec.split('-')
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years = list(range(int(start.strip()), int(end.strip()) + 1))
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# Handle single year
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else:
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years = [int(year_spec)]
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return years
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def run_setup_for_year(year, use_ollama=True, ollama_host=None, ollama_model=None):
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"""
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Run setup_nfr.py for a specific year.
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Returns True if successful, False otherwise.
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"""
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print(f"\n{'='*60}")
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print(f"Processing NFR {year}")
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print(f"{'='*60}\n")
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cmd = ["python3", "scripts/setup_nfr.py", str(year)]
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# Add URL if we know it
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if year in KNOWN_URLS:
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cmd.extend(["--url", KNOWN_URLS[year]])
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print(f"Using known URL for {year}")
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# Add ollama options
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if not use_ollama:
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cmd.append("--no-ollama")
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else:
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if ollama_host:
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cmd.extend(["--ollama-host", ollama_host])
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if ollama_model:
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cmd.extend(["--ollama-model", ollama_model])
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# Check if output file already exists
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output_file = Path(f"scripts/nfr_data/nfr_{year}.py")
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if output_file.exists():
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print(f"⚠️ {output_file} already exists")
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response = input("Overwrite? (y/N): ").strip().lower()
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if response != 'y':
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print(f"Skipping {year}")
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return False
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try:
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# Run the command - this may be interactive
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result = subprocess.run(cmd, check=False)
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if result.returncode == 0:
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print(f"✓ Successfully processed {year}")
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return True
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else:
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print(f"✗ Failed to process {year}")
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return False
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except KeyboardInterrupt:
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print(f"\n\nInterrupted while processing {year}")
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sys.exit(1)
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except Exception as e:
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print(f"Error processing {year}: {e}")
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return False
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def main():
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parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
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description="Batch generate NFR dictionaries"
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)
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group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
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group.add_argument(
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"--years",
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help="Years to process (e.g., '2020-2023' or '2015,2016,2017')"
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)
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group.add_argument(
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"--all",
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action="store_true",
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help=f"Process all years from {FIRST_NFR_YEAR} to 2023"
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)
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parser.add_argument(
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"--no-ollama",
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action="store_true",
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help="Don't use ollama (use basic extraction)"
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)
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parser.add_argument(
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"--ollama-host",
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help="Ollama server URL"
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)
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parser.add_argument(
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"--ollama-model",
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help="Ollama model to use"
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)
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args = parser.parse_args()
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# Determine which years to process
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if args.all:
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years = list(range(FIRST_NFR_YEAR, 2024)) # 1989-2023
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else:
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years = parse_year_range(args.years)
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# Sort years
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years.sort()
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print(f"\nWill process {len(years)} years: {years[0]}-{years[-1]}")
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print(f"Ollama: {'disabled' if args.no_ollama else 'enabled'}")
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if len(years) > 5:
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response = input("\nThis will process many years. Continue? (Y/n): ").strip().lower()
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if response == 'n':
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print("Cancelled")
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sys.exit(0)
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# Process each year
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successful = []
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failed = []
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for year in years:
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success = run_setup_for_year(
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year,
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use_ollama=not args.no_ollama,
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ollama_host=args.ollama_host,
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ollama_model=args.ollama_model
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)
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if success:
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successful.append(year)
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else:
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failed.append(year)
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# Summary
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print(f"\n{'='*60}")
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print("SUMMARY")
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print(f"{'='*60}\n")
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print(f"✓ Successfully processed: {len(successful)} years")
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if successful:
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print(f" {successful}")
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if failed:
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print(f"\n✗ Failed: {len(failed)} years")
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print(f" {failed}")
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print(f"\nYou can retry failed years individually:")
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for year in failed:
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print(f" python3 scripts/setup_nfr.py {year}")
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print(f"\nGenerated files are in: scripts/nfr_data/")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""
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Fully automated NFR dictionary generator for all years.
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This script uses web search and scraping to find announcement pages
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and extract film data for each NFR year from 1989-2023.
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Usage:
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python3 scripts/generate_all_nfr_years.py
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python3 scripts/generate_all_nfr_years.py --start 2020 --end 2023
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python3 scripts/generate_all_nfr_years.py --year 2015
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"""
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import argparse
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import json
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import re
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import time
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from pathlib import Path
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from urllib.parse import quote_plus
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import requests
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# Configuration
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SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
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NFR_DATA_DIR = SCRIPT_DIR / "nfr_data"
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FIRST_NFR_YEAR = 1989
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# Known URLs to speed things up
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KNOWN_ANNOUNCEMENT_URLS = {
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2024: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-named-to-national-film-registry-for-preservation/s/55d5285d-916f-4105-b7d4-7fc3ba8664e3",
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2023: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-selected-for-preservation-in-national-film-registry/s/aa4bef48-95f6-486f-882d-110613633b1e",
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2022: "https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-eclectic-films-chosen-for-national-film-registry/s/8c41f7a1-b9d9-4f9e-b252-4795b73a4aaf",
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2021: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2021/12/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-the-national-film-registry/",
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2020: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2020/12/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-the-national-film-registry/",
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2019: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2019/12/librarian-of-congress-announces-national-film-registry-selections-for-2019/",
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2018: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2018/12/librarian-of-congress-announces-national-film-registry-selections-for-2018/",
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2017: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2017/12/librarian-of-congress-announces-national-film-registry-selections-for-2017/",
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2016: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2016/12/librarian-of-congress-announces-2016-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2015: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2015/12/announcing-the-2015-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2014: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/12/announcing-the-2014-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2013: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2013/12/announcing-the-2013-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2012: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2012/12/announcing-the-2012-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2011: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2011/12/announcing-the-2011-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2010: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2010/12/announcing-the-2010-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2009: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2009/12/announcing-the-2009-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2008: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2008/12/announcing-the-2008-national-film-registry-selections/",
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2007: "https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2007/12/announcing-the-2007-national-film-registry-selections/",
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}
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def search_for_announcement_url(year):
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"""
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Try to find the announcement URL for a given year using various strategies.
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"""
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print(f" Searching for {year} announcement URL...")
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if year in KNOWN_ANNOUNCEMENT_URLS:
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print(f" Using known URL for {year}")
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return KNOWN_ANNOUNCEMENT_URLS[year]
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# Try common URL patterns
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# Pattern 1: blogs.loc.gov (most common for older years)
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year_patterns = [
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f"https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/{year}/12/announcing-the-{year}-national-film-registry-selections/",
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f"https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/{year}/12/librarian-of-congress-announces-{year}-national-film-registry-selections/",
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f"https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/{year}/12/announcing-the-{year}-national-film-registry/",
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]
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for url in year_patterns:
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try:
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resp = requests.head(url, timeout=10, allow_redirects=True)
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if resp.status_code == 200:
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print(f" Found URL: {url}")
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return url
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except Exception:
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pass
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# If we can't find it automatically, return None
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print(f" Could not find announcement URL for {year} - will need manual search")
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return None
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def fetch_page_content(url):
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"""Fetch HTML content from a URL."""
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try:
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resp = requests.get(url, timeout=30)
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resp.raise_for_status()
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return resp.text
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except Exception as e:
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print(f" Error fetching {url}: {e}")
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return None
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def extract_films_basic(html, year):
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"""
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Basic extraction of films from HTML content.
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This is a simple heuristic-based approach.
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"""
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films = {}
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# Look for film title patterns: "Title" (Year) or Title (Year)
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# This is very basic and may need refinement
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patterns = [
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r'"([^"]+)"\s*\((\d{4})\)', # "Title" (Year)
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r'<strong>([^<]+)</strong>\s*\((\d{4})\)', # <strong>Title</strong> (Year)
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r'<b>([^<]+)</b>\s*\((\d{4})\)', # <b>Title</b> (Year)
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]
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found_titles = set()
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for pattern in patterns:
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matches = re.findall(pattern, html)
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for title, film_year in matches:
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title = title.strip()
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film_year = int(film_year)
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# Sanity checks
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if (len(title) > 3 and
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1890 <= film_year <= year and
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title not in found_titles):
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films[title] = {
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"year": film_year,
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"description": f"[Description needs to be added for this {year} NFR inductee]"
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}
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found_titles.add(title)
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return films
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def generate_nfr_dict_file(year, films, source_url=""):
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"""Generate a Python file containing the NFR dictionary for a year."""
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if not films:
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print(f" No films to generate for {year}")
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return None
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output_path = NFR_DATA_DIR / f"nfr_{year}.py"
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|
||||
# Build the Python code
|
||||
code = f'''# {year} National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: {source_url if source_url else "[Add source URL]"}
|
||||
# Generated automatically - descriptions may need review/enhancement
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_{year} = {{
|
||||
'''
|
||||
|
||||
for title, data in films.items():
|
||||
# Escape single quotes in strings
|
||||
title_escaped = title.replace("'", "\\'").replace('"', '\\"')
|
||||
desc_escaped = data["description"].replace("'", "\\'").replace('"', '\\"')
|
||||
|
||||
code += f''' "{title_escaped}": {{
|
||||
"year": {data["year"]},
|
||||
"description": "{desc_escaped}"
|
||||
}},
|
||||
'''
|
||||
|
||||
code += "}\n"
|
||||
|
||||
# Save the file
|
||||
output_path.write_text(code)
|
||||
print(f" ✓ Saved {len(films)} films to {output_path.relative_to(SCRIPT_DIR)}")
|
||||
|
||||
return output_path
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def process_year(year, force=False):
|
||||
"""Process a single year: find URL, fetch content, extract films, generate file."""
|
||||
print(f"\n{'='*60}")
|
||||
print(f"Processing NFR {year}")
|
||||
print(f"{'='*60}")
|
||||
|
||||
# Check if already exists
|
||||
output_file = NFR_DATA_DIR / f"nfr_{year}.py"
|
||||
if output_file.exists() and not force:
|
||||
print(f" ⚠️ {output_file.name} already exists (use --force to overwrite)")
|
||||
return False
|
||||
|
||||
# Find announcement URL
|
||||
url = search_for_announcement_url(year)
|
||||
if not url:
|
||||
print(f" ✗ Skipping {year} - no URL found")
|
||||
print(f" You can manually process this year with:")
|
||||
print(f" python3 scripts/setup_nfr.py {year}")
|
||||
return False
|
||||
|
||||
# Fetch content
|
||||
html = fetch_page_content(url)
|
||||
if not html:
|
||||
print(f" ✗ Could not fetch content for {year}")
|
||||
return False
|
||||
|
||||
# Extract films
|
||||
print(f" Extracting films...")
|
||||
films = extract_films_basic(html, year)
|
||||
|
||||
if not films:
|
||||
print(f" ✗ Could not extract films from {year}")
|
||||
print(f" The page format may require manual processing:")
|
||||
print(f" python3 scripts/setup_nfr.py {year} --url \"{url}\"")
|
||||
return False
|
||||
|
||||
print(f" Found {len(films)} films")
|
||||
|
||||
# Generate file
|
||||
output_file = generate_nfr_dict_file(year, films, url)
|
||||
|
||||
if output_file:
|
||||
print(f" ✓ Successfully processed {year}")
|
||||
return True
|
||||
|
||||
return False
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def main():
|
||||
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
|
||||
description="Generate NFR dictionaries for all years"
|
||||
)
|
||||
parser.add_argument(
|
||||
"--start",
|
||||
type=int,
|
||||
default=FIRST_NFR_YEAR,
|
||||
help=f"Start year (default: {FIRST_NFR_YEAR})"
|
||||
)
|
||||
parser.add_argument(
|
||||
"--end",
|
||||
type=int,
|
||||
default=2023,
|
||||
help="End year (default: 2023)"
|
||||
)
|
||||
parser.add_argument(
|
||||
"--year",
|
||||
type=int,
|
||||
help="Process a single year"
|
||||
)
|
||||
parser.add_argument(
|
||||
"--force",
|
||||
action="store_true",
|
||||
help="Overwrite existing files"
|
||||
)
|
||||
parser.add_argument(
|
||||
"--delay",
|
||||
type=float,
|
||||
default=1.0,
|
||||
help="Delay between requests in seconds (default: 1.0)"
|
||||
)
|
||||
|
||||
args = parser.parse_args()
|
||||
|
||||
# Create output directory
|
||||
NFR_DATA_DIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
|
||||
|
||||
# Determine years to process
|
||||
if args.year:
|
||||
years = [args.year]
|
||||
else:
|
||||
years = list(range(args.start, args.end + 1))
|
||||
|
||||
print(f"Will process {len(years)} years: {min(years)}-{max(years)}")
|
||||
print(f"Output directory: {NFR_DATA_DIR}")
|
||||
print(f"Force overwrite: {args.force}")
|
||||
|
||||
# Process years
|
||||
successful = []
|
||||
failed = []
|
||||
skipped = []
|
||||
|
||||
for i, year in enumerate(years):
|
||||
# Add delay between requests to be polite
|
||||
if i > 0:
|
||||
time.sleep(args.delay)
|
||||
|
||||
result = process_year(year, force=args.force)
|
||||
|
||||
if result is True:
|
||||
successful.append(year)
|
||||
elif result is False:
|
||||
# Check if it was skipped vs failed
|
||||
output_file = NFR_DATA_DIR / f"nfr_{year}.py"
|
||||
if output_file.exists():
|
||||
skipped.append(year)
|
||||
else:
|
||||
failed.append(year)
|
||||
|
||||
# Summary
|
||||
print(f"\n{'='*60}")
|
||||
print("SUMMARY")
|
||||
print(f"{'='*60}")
|
||||
print(f"\n✓ Successfully generated: {len(successful)} files")
|
||||
if successful:
|
||||
print(f" Years: {successful}")
|
||||
|
||||
if skipped:
|
||||
print(f"\n⊘ Skipped (already exist): {len(skipped)}")
|
||||
print(f" Years: {skipped}")
|
||||
|
||||
if failed:
|
||||
print(f"\n✗ Failed/Need manual processing: {len(failed)}")
|
||||
print(f" Years: {failed}")
|
||||
print(f"\n Process these manually with:")
|
||||
for year in failed:
|
||||
print(f" python3 scripts/setup_nfr.py {year}")
|
||||
|
||||
print(f"\n📁 Generated files: {NFR_DATA_DIR}/")
|
||||
print(f"\nNote: Generated files use basic extraction and may need review.")
|
||||
print(f"For better results with descriptions, use setup_nfr.py with ollama.")
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
if __name__ == "__main__":
|
||||
main()
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
|
||||
# 1989 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9812/film.html
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1989 = {
|
||||
"Intolerance": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "D.W. Griffith's epic interracial drama exploring themes of human struggle, prejudice, and devastating impact of intolerance across nearly three hours."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Buck Rogers": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Charlie Chaplin's iconic comedy about industrial life, commenting on social issues through his iconic 'Little Tramp' character."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dress Rehearsal": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "John Barrymore's silent film about a newspaper tycoon who battles moral dilemmas and exposes corruption through sensationalist editing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Freshman": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Harold Lloyd's final comedy classic about an aspiring newsreel cameraman who pursues romance through elaborate sight gags."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hell-Hinged Hinges": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "William S. Hart's representation of a forgotten legend of early cinema, capturing the essence of the Western genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Corner in Wheat": {
|
||||
"year": 1909,
|
||||
"description": "Vague enough that you can still apply its message today."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rip Van Winkle": {
|
||||
"year": 1896,
|
||||
"description": "The film that put Biograph Studios on the map, named 'the film that put motion pictures as we know them today.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kid Auto Races": {
|
||||
"year": 1894,
|
||||
"description": "A 12-minute actuality recording of a car race, capturing the excitement of early 20th-century motoring events."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cabin in the Sky": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Educational film about motion picture film stock production and cinema's global impact, shot at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bread": {
|
||||
"year": 1918,
|
||||
"description": "Ida Lupino's unflinching examination of rape's traumatic effects, employing masterful cinematography capturing psychological impact through sound, silence, light, and shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Battle of the Century": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "A Laurel and Hardy silent comedy featuring elaborate sight gags about a car race. You win some, you lose some."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"With Car and Camera": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "Documenting expeditions from 1922-1929, Aloha Wanderwell served as camera assistant, cinematographer, editor and director, becoming the first woman to travel around the world by car."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fury": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Not Fritz Lang's best work, but it keeps getting better as it goes along. You win some, you lose some."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Big Business": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "A Wallace Beery's early sound film featuring dynamic acting and confrontational drama exploring corporate corruption and personal moral dilemmas."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"H2O": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Duck Soup": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "The Marx brothers' classic made in 1933 featuring iconic performances by the Four Marx brothers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All Quiet on the Western Front": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's adaptation of Zane Grey's novel about a policeman-turned sheriff who confronts dark secrets in a morally complex tale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rebel Without a Cause": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "Victor Fleming's lavish 1956 production starring Charles Laughton as a young woman adjusting to a new family, featuring Judy Garland's Academy Award-winning performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The General": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "John Barrymore's silent film about a newspaper tycoon who battles moral dilemmas and exposes corruption through sensationalist editing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gone With the Wind": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's political satire about corruption in Washington D.C., starring James Stewart's powerful performance as a junior senator."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Best Years of Our Lives": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "William Wyler's powerful post-WWII drama about returning veterans adjusting to civilian life, directed by Mankiewicz and produced by William Wyler."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sunset Boulevard": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's acclaimed drama about aging screenwriter Norma Desmond who faces addiction and career decline."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"High Noon": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Fred Zinnemann's psychological western starring Gary Cooper as a sheriff torn between duty and conscience in a morally complex tale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Singin' in the Rain": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Donen's beloved musical featuring Gene Kelly and Reynolds, celebrated for its iconic songs and romantic dance sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"On the Waterfront": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's controversial adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play exploring themes of sexual repression and personal growth in a Southern college setting."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Learning Tree": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Gordon Parks' independent drama about a Black teenager in rural Kansas breaking barriers in Hollywood's representation of Black life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Manchurian Candidate": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's political satire about corruption in Washington D.C., starring James Stewart's powerful performance as a junior senator."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Apartment": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's last truly great comedy film. One of my favorites. Like, top five."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Maltese Falcon": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "John Huston's film noir about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nashville": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Aldrich's film noir about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Outlaw Josey Wales": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Aldrich's Western about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gerald McBoing-Boing": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "A good story with inventive animation, which is really all you can ask for."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Band Wagon": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Not [Fritz Lang's] best movie…but it is still very entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All That Heaven Allows": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Yes, it's a highly-stylized melodrama, but it has that Douglas Sirk touch to it that keeps it watchable."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Music Box": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Musical adaptation of Meredith Willson's Iowa-centered Americana romance celebrating small-town American values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Star Is Born": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor's beloved sci-fi musical adapted by Bizet's opera, defining the Disney Renaissance of the 1980s-90s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Top Hat": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "A fine story with inventive animation, which is really all you can ask for."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thin Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick's satirical comedy about industrial life in contemporary Hollywood through his iconic 'Little Tramp' character."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pull My Daisy": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Not [Fritz Lang's] best movie…but it is still very entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Road to Morocco": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"She Done Him Wrong": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Lupino's unflinching examination of rape's traumatic effects, employing masterful cinematography capturing psychological impact through sound, silence, light, and shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Often considered the best of the six original-cast Star Trek theatrical films, featuring expert direction and James Horner's stirring score to enhance the always intriguing 'Star Trek' scripts, which echo the vision of Gene Roddenberry."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
|
||||
# 1995 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-07-082/loc-20-2082/national-film-registry-adds-25-historic-titles/1995/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1995 = {
|
||||
"Blacksmith Scene": {
|
||||
"year": 1893,
|
||||
"description": "We can go ahead and give 'Blacksmith Scene' credit for motion pictures as we know them today."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rip Van Winkle": {
|
||||
"year": 1896,
|
||||
"description": "The film that put Biograph Studios on the map, named 'the film that put motion pictures as we know them today.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kid Auto Races": {
|
||||
"year": 1894,
|
||||
"description": "A 12-minute actuality recording of a car race, capturing the excitement of early 20th-century motoring events."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cabin in the Sky": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Educational film about motion picture film stock production and cinema's global impact, shot at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bread": {
|
||||
"year": 1918,
|
||||
"description": "Ida Lupino's unflinching examination of rape's traumatic effects, employing masterful cinematography capturing psychological impact through sound, silence, light, and shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Battle of the Century": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "A Laurel and Hardy silent comedy featuring elaborate sight gags about a car race. You win some, you lose some."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"With Car and Camera": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "Documenting expeditions from 1922-1929, Aloha Wanderwell served as camera assistant, cinematographer, editor and director, becoming the first woman to travel around the world by car."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fury": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Not [Fritz Lang's] best movie…but it is still very entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Big Business": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "A Wallace Beery's early sound film featuring dynamic acting and confrontational drama exploring corporate corruption and personal dilemmas."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"H2O": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Duck Soup": {
|
||||
"year": 193,
|
||||
"description": "The Marx brothers' classic made in 1933 featuring iconic performances by the Four Marx brothers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All Quiet on the Western Front": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's adaptation of Zane Grey's novel about a policeman-turned sheriff who confronts dark secrets in a morally complex tale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rebel Without a Cause": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "Victor Fleming's lavish 1956 production starring Charles Laughton as a young woman adjusting to a new family, featuring Judy Garland's Academy Award-winning performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The General": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "John Barrymore's silent film about a newspaper tycoon who battles moral dilemmas and exposes corruption through sensationalist editing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gone With the Wind": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's political satire about corruption in Washington D.C., starring James Stewart's powerful performance as a junior senator."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Best Years of Our Lives": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "William Wyler's powerful post-WWII drama about returning veterans adjusting to civilian life, directed by Mankiewicz and produced by William Wyler."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sunset Boulevard": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's acclaimed drama about aging screenwriter Norma Desmond who faces addiction and career decline."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"High Noon": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Fred Zinnemann's psychological western starring Gary Cooper as a sheriff torn between duty and conscience in a morally complex tale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Singin' in the Rain": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Donen's beloved musical featuring Gene Kelly and Reynolds, celebrated for its iconic songs and romantic dance sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"On the Waterfront": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's controversial adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play exploring themes of sexual repression and personal growth in a Southern college setting."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Learning Tree": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Gordon Parks' independent drama about a Black teenager in rural Kansas breaking barriers in Hollywood's representation of Black life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Manchurian Candidate": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's political satire about corruption in Washington D.C., starring James Stewart's powerful performance as a junior senator."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Apartment": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's last truly great comedy film. One of my favorites. Like, top five."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Maltese Falcon": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "John Huston's film noir about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nashville": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Aldrich's film noir about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Outlaw Josey Wales": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Aldrich's Western about a private investigator hired to investigate a woman's murder, featuring iconic performances by Bogart and Bacall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gerald McBoing-Boing": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "A good story with inventive animation, which is really all you can ask for."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Band Wagon": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Not [Fritz Lang's] best movie…but it is still very entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All That Heaven Allows": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Yes, it's a highly-stylized melodrama, but it has that Douglas Sirk touch to it that keeps it watchable."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Music Box": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Musical adaptation of Meredith Willson's Iowa-centered Americana romance celebrating small-town American values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Star Is Born": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor's beloved sci-fi musical adapted by Bizet's opera, defining the Disney Renaissance of the 1980s-90s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Top Hat": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "A fine story with inventive animation, which is really all you can ask for."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thin Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick's satirical comedy about industrial life in contemporary Hollywood through his iconic 'Little Tramp' character."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pull My Daisy": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Not [Fritz Lang's] best movie…but it is still very entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Road to Morocco": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy with a remarkable ensemble cast and ensemble cast."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"She Done Him Wrong": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Lupino's unflinching examination of rape's traumatic effects, employing masterful cinematography capturing psychological impact through sound, silence, light, and shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Often considered the best of the six original-cast Star Trek theatrical films, featuring expert direction and James Horner's stirring score to enhance the always intriguing 'Star Trek' scripts, which echo the vision of Gene Roddenberry."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 1991 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1991 = {
|
||||
"2001: A Space Odyssey": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1968]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Place in the Sun": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1951]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Chinatown": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1974]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"City Lights": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1931]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"David Holzman’s Diary": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1968]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Frankenstein": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1931]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gertie The Dinosaur": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1914]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gigi": {
|
||||
"year": 1958,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1958]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Greed": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1924]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"High School": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1969]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1932]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"King Kong": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1933]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lawrence of Arabia": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1962]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"My Darling Clementine": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1946]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Out of the Past": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1947]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shadow of a Doubt": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1943]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sherlock Jr.": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1924]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tevye": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1939]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Battle of San Pietro": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1945]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Blood of Jesus": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1941]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Italian": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1915]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Magnificent Ambersons": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1942]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Poor Little Rich Girl": {
|
||||
"year": 1917,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1917]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Prisoner of Zenda": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1937]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Trouble in Paradise": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1991 inductee - film released in 1932]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
|
||||
# 1992 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1992 = NFR_1992 = {
|
||||
"Adam’s Rib": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1949]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Annie Hall": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "Woody Allen's 1977 comedy about a neurotic New York comedian reflecting on his relationship with the titular character, marking a significant departure from his earlier slapstick work."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Big Business": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "The 1929 Hal Roach-produced Laurel and Hardy comedy featuring the iconic duo in mistaken identity antics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bonnie and Clyde": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Arthur Penn's 1967 crime drama romanticizing the infamous outlaws, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Carmen Jones": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Otto Preminger's 1954 lavish musical adaptation of Bizet's opera starring Dorothy Dandridge."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness)": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1966]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Detour": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "The 1945 cult classic directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, the story of a hitchhiker who becomes involved with a femme fatale, the first B movie included on the Registry."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dog Star Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Stan Brakhage's 1964 silent experimental film, another 'motion picture orphan' added this year."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Double Indemnity": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir classic starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as scheming lovers plotting murder."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Footlight Parade": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "The Busby Berkeley 1933 musical extravaganza featuring elaborate dance sequences and aquatic finales, showcasing the peak of Hollywood's pre-Code musical era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Letter from an Unknown Woman": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1948]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Morocco": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1930]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nashville": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Altman's 1975 ensemble drama satirizing American culture through interconnected stories in the country music capital."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Paths of Glory": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick's 1957 antiwar classic about French soldiers court-martialed during World War I."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Psycho": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense thriller that revolutionized the horror genre with its shocking twists and innovative storytelling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ride the High Country": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1962]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Salesman": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1968]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Salt of the Earth": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "A 1954 film made by blacklisted filmmakers Paul Jerrico, Herbert J. Biberman, Michael Wilson, and Sol Kaplan, about a miners' strike."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Bank Dick": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "W.C. Fields' 1940 comedy about a small-town drunk who becomes a bank guard during a robbery."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Big Parade": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "King Vidor's 1925 silent film produced by Irving Thalberg, depicting the horrors of World War I."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Birth of a Nation": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic silent film, considered the granddaddy of all silents, portraying the Civil War and Reconstruction from a Confederate viewpoint."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Gold Rush": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Charlie Chaplin's 1925 silent comedy about gold prospectors in the Klondike, featuring his iconic Little Tramp."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Night of the Hunter": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1955]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"What’s Opera, Doc?": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1992 inductee - film released in 1957]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Within Our Gates": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "A black & white silent made in 1920 by Oscar Micheaux, addressing racial issues in America."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
|
||||
# 1993 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1993 = NFR_1993 = {
|
||||
"A Night at the Opera": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "The Marx Brothers' 1935 comedy classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"An American in Paris": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Vincente Minnelli's 1951 musical featuring Gene Kelly's iconic dance sequence, winner of multiple Academy Awards."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Badlands": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Terrence Malick's 1973 debut film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers on a killing spree."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Blade Runner": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic based on Philip K. Dick's novel, starring Harrison Ford."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cat People": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "Jacques Tourneur's 1942 horror film about a woman who turns into a panther."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Chulas Fronteras": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Leslie Marmon Silko's 1976 documentary about Mexican-Americans."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Eaux d’artifice": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1953]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"His Girl Friday": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks' 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"It Happened One Night": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's 1934 romantic comedy that swept the Academy Awards."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lassie Come Home": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1943]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Magical Maestro": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Tex Avery's 1952 animated short featuring a symphony conductor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1938]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nothing But a Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1964]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1975]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Point of Order": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Emile de Antonio's 1964 documentary about the Army-McCarthy hearings."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shadows": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "John Cassavetes' 1959 independent drama about racial identity."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shane": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "George Stevens' 1953 Western starring Alan Ladd as the mysterious gunslinger."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sweet Smell of Success": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 film noir about a powerful columnist."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Black Pirate": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Douglas Fairbanks' 1926 swashbuckler with stunning Technicolor sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Cheat": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 silent drama starring Fannie Ward."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Godfather Part II": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1993 inductee - film released in 1974]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wind": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Victor Sjöström's 1928 silent drama starring Lillian Gish."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Touch of Evil": {
|
||||
"year": 1958,
|
||||
"description": "Orson Welles' 1958 noir masterpiece starring Charlton Heston."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Where Are My Children?": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Lois Weber's 1916 silent film about birth control and eugenics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Yankee Doodle Dandy": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Curtiz's 1942 biopic of George M. Cohan starring James Cagney."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
|
||||
# 1994 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1994 = NFR_1994 = {
|
||||
"A Corner in Wheat": {
|
||||
"year": 1909,
|
||||
"description": "A 1909 short film by D.W. Griffith about wheat speculation and social inequality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A MOVIE": {
|
||||
"year": 1958,
|
||||
"description": "Bruce Conner's 1958 experimental collage film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1994 inductee - film released in 1982]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Force of Evil": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "Abraham Polonsky's 1948 film noir about stock market manipulation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Freaks": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "Tod Browning's 1932 horror film about carnival performers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hell’s Hinges": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1994 inductee - film released in 1916]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hospital": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Frederick Wiseman's 1970 documentary about a hospital."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller about alien invasion."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Louisiana Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Flaherty's 1948 documentary about Cajun life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Marty": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Delbert Mann's 1955 drama about a lonely butcher."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Meet Me in St. Louis": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Vincente Minnelli's 1944 musical set in 1903."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Midnight Cowboy": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "John Schlesinger's 1969 drama about two hustlers in New York."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pinocchio": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature about the wooden boy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Safety Last!": {
|
||||
"year": 1923,
|
||||
"description": "Harold Lloyd's 1923 comedy featuring the iconic clock tower climb."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Scarface": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks' 1932 gangster film starring Paul Muni."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Snow White": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1994 inductee - film released in 1933]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tabu": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1994 inductee - film released in 1931]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Taxi Driver": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Martin Scorsese's 1976 thriller starring Robert De Niro."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The African Queen": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "John Huston's 1951 adventure starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Apartment": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's 1960 comedy-drama starring Jack Lemmon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Cool World": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Shirley Clarke's 1963 drama about Harlem street gangs."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Exploits of Elaine": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "A 1914 serial film featuring Pearl White in cliffhanger adventures."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lady Eve": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Preston Sturges' 1941 screwball comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Manchurian Candidate": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "John Frankenheimer's 1962 political thriller."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Zapruder Film": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Abraham Zapruder's 1963 home movie of JFK's assassination."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 1995 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1995 = NFR_1995 = {
|
||||
"All That Heaven Allows": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Douglas Sirk's 1955 melodrama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"American Graffiti": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "George Lucas's 1973 coming-of-age film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Blacksmith Scene": {
|
||||
"year": 1893,
|
||||
"description": "Thomas Edison's 1893 short film showing a blacksmith at work."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cabaret": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Bob Fosse's 1972 musical."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Chan Is Missing": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Wayne Wang's 1982 mystery film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"El Norte": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "Gregory Nava's 1983 immigration drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fatty’s Tintype Tangle": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1995 inductee - film released in 1915]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fury": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Fritz Lang's 1936 drama about mob justice."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gerald McBoing-Boing": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1995 inductee - film released in 1951]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jammin’ the Blues": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1995 inductee - film released in 1944]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manhatta": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's 1921 experimental film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"North By Northwest": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1995 inductee - film released in 1959]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rip Van Winkle": {
|
||||
"year": 1896,
|
||||
"description": "1896/1903 short films by J. Stuart Blackton."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Seventh Heaven": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1995 inductee - film released in 1927]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stagecoach": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's 1939 Western classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Adventures of Robin Hood": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Curtiz's 1938 swashbuckler."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Band Wagon": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Vincente Minnelli's 1953 musical."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Conversation": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 thriller."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Day the Earth Stood Still": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Rex Ingram's 1921 epic about World War I."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hospital": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Arthur Hiller's 1971 comedy-drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Last of the Mohicans": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "Maurice Tourneur's 1920 adaptation of the novel."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Philadelphia Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor's 1940 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"To Fly!": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Greg MacGillivray's 1976 IMAX documentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"To Kill a Mockingbird": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Mulligan's 1962 drama."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 1996 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1996 = NFR_1996 = {
|
||||
"Broken Blossoms": {
|
||||
"year": 1919,
|
||||
"description": "D.W. Griffith's 1919 silent drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Destry Rides Again": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "George Marshall's 1939 Western comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Flash Gordon Serial": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1996 inductee - film released in 1936]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Frank Film": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Mouris's 1973 animated short."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"M*A*S*H": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Altman's 1970 war comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mildred Pierce": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Curtiz's 1945 film noir."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pull My Daisy": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Frank's 1959 Beat film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Road to Morocco": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "David Butler's 1942 comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"She Done Him Wrong": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Lowell Sherman's 1933 pre-Code film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shock Corridor": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Samuel Fuller's 1963 psychological drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Show Boat": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "James Whale's 1936 musical."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Awful Truth": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "Leo McCarey's 1937 screwball comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Deer Hunter": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Forgotten Frontier": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "Marion Grierson's 1931 documentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Graduate": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Mike Nichols's 1967 coming-of-age comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Heiress": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "William Wyler's 1949 drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Jazz Singer": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "Alan Crosland's 1927 part-talkie."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1996 inductee - film released in 1980]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Outlaw Josey Wales": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Clint Eastwood's 1976 Western."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Producers": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "Mel Brooks's 1968 comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thief of Bagdad": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "Raoul Walsh's 1924 adventure."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"To Be or Not to Be": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1996 inductee - film released in 1942]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Topaz": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 thriller."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Verbena tragica": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1996 inductee - film released in 1939]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Woodstock": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 1997 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
|
||||
# Generated by extract_nfr_years.py
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1997 = NFR_1997 = {
|
||||
"Ben-Hur (1925)": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1997 inductee - film released in 1925]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cops": {
|
||||
"year": 1922,
|
||||
"description": "Buster Keaton's 1922 silent comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Czechoslovakia 1968": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco's 1969 documentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Grass": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Merian C. Cooper's 1925 ethnographic film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Harold and Maude": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Hal Ashby's 1971 comedy-drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "1937 newsreel of the airship disaster."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"How the West Was Won": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's 1962 Western epic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Knute Rockne, All American": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Lloyd Bacon's 1940 biopic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Little Fugitive": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1997 inductee - film released in 1953]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mean Streets": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Motion Painting No. 1": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "Oskar Fischinger's 1947 abstract animation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rear Window": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1997 inductee - film released in 1937]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Return of the Secaucus 7": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "John Sayles's 1980 drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Big Sleep": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks's 1946 film noir with Humphrey Bogart."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Bridge on the River Kwai": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "David Lean's 1957 war film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Great Dictator": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Charlie Chaplin's 1940 satire."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hustler": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Rossen's 1961 drama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "[NFR 1997 inductee - film released in 1927]"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Music Box": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "James Parrott's 1932 Laurel and Hardy film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Naked Spur": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Anthony Mann's 1953 Western."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thin Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "W.S. Van Dyke's 1934 comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tulips Shall Grow": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "George Pal's 1942 puppet animation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"West Side Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's 1961 musical."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wings": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "William A. Wellman's 1927 silent war film."
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 1998 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9812/film.html
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1998 = {
|
||||
"Bride of Frankenstein": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "James Whale's sequel surpassing the original with dark humor and Gothic atmosphere."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The City": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary about urban planning contrasting city and country life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dead Birds": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Gardner's ethnographic film about the Dani people of New Guinea."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Don't Look Back": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "D.A. Pennebaker's cinema verité documentary following Bob Dylan's 1965 UK tour."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Easy Rider": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Counterculture road film starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper exploring American freedom."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"42nd Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Musical featuring elaborate Busby Berkeley choreography during the Depression era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"From the Manger to the Cross": {
|
||||
"year": 1912,
|
||||
"description": "Early feature-length film depicting the life of Christ, shot in Egypt and Palestine."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gun Crazy": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "Joseph H. Lewis' film noir about a couple's crime spree, influenced by Bonnie and Clyde."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hitch-Hiker": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Ida Lupino's tense thriller about two men terrorized by a psychopathic hitchhiker."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Immigrant": {
|
||||
"year": 1917,
|
||||
"description": "Charlie Chaplin short combining comedy with social commentary on immigration."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Last Picture Show": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Peter Bogdanovich's elegiac portrait of small-town Texas in the 1950s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Little Miss Marker": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Shirley Temple vehicle about a girl left as a gambling debt marker."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lost World": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Silent adventure film featuring groundbreaking stop-motion dinosaur effects."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Modesta": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary short about a Yaqui Indian woman in Arizona."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Ox-Bow Incident": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "William Wellman's anti-lynch mob Western examining justice and mob mentality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pass the Gravy": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Max Davidson comedy short from the silent era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Phantom of the Opera": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Lon Chaney's iconic performance in this Gothic horror silent film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Powers of Ten": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Charles and Ray Eames' educational film exploring the universe's scale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Public Enemy": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "James Cagney's star-making gangster film depicting prohibition-era crime."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sky High": {
|
||||
"year": 1922,
|
||||
"description": "Early aviation adventure film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Steamboat Willie": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's first synchronized sound cartoon introducing Mickey Mouse."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary footage of the dramatic bridge collapse in Washington State."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tootsie": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Comedy starring Dustin Hoffman as an actor who disguises himself as a woman."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Twelve O'Clock High": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "WWII drama about the psychological toll of bomber command leadership."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Westinghouse Works, 1904": {
|
||||
"year": 1904,
|
||||
"description": "Early industrial documentary capturing workers at a Westinghouse factory."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
|
||||
# 1999 National Film Registry inductees
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9912/nfb.html
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_1999 = {
|
||||
"Civilization": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Epic anti-war film depicting the horrors of warfare and advocating for peace."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Do the Right Thing": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Spike Lee's powerful examination of racial tensions in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of summer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Docks of New York": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Josef von Sternberg's atmospheric silent film about a stoker who falls for a woman he saves from drowning."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Duck Amuck": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Chuck Jones' innovative Warner Bros. cartoon featuring Daffy Duck tormented by an unseen animator."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Emperor Jones": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play featuring Paul Robeson in a powerful leading role."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gunga Din": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Adventure film set in colonial India, loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's poem."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"In the Land of the Head-Hunters": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Edward S. Curtis' ethnographic film documenting Kwakwaka'wakw culture and traditions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jazz on a Summer's Day": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary capturing the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary chronicling Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights leadership."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Kiss": {
|
||||
"year": 1896,
|
||||
"description": "Early Edison film depicting a couple's brief kiss, considered scandalous at the time."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kiss Me Deadly": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Aldrich's violent, apocalyptic film noir featuring detective Mike Hammer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lambchops": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "George O'Hara comedy short film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Laura": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Otto Preminger's stylish film noir about a detective obsessed with a murder victim."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Master Hands": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Chevrolet-sponsored industrial film documenting automobile assembly."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"My Man Godfrey": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Screwball comedy about a socialite who hires a forgotten man as the family butler."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Night of the Living Dead": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "George A. Romero's groundbreaking horror film that redefined the zombie genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Plow that Broke the Plains": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary examining the Dust Bowl's ecological and social devastation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Raiders of the Lost Ark": {
|
||||
"year": 1981,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Spielberg's adventure film introducing archaeologist Indiana Jones."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Roman Holiday": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Romantic comedy featuring Audrey Hepburn as a princess exploring Rome incognito."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Shop Around the Corner": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy about pen pals who are unknowing co-workers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Streetcar Named Desire": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play featuring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Ten Commandments": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "Cecil B. DeMille's epic retelling of the Exodus story starring Charlton Heston."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Trance and Dance in Bali": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's ethnographic documentation of Balinese rituals."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wild Bunch": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Sam Peckinpah's violent revisionist Western about aging outlaws in the changing West."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Woman of the Year": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "First pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in a romantic comedy about marriage and careers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2000 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://loc.gov/loc/lcib/0101/significant_cinema.html
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2000 = {
|
||||
"Apocalypse Now": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Francis Ford Coppola's epic Vietnam War film exploring the darkness of war and human nature."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dracula": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "One of the all-time horror greats, featuring the unforgettably creepy performance of Bela Lugosi."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Fall of the House of Usher": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Jean Epstein's atmospheric adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tale."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Five Easy Pieces": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Bob Rafelson's character study featuring Jack Nicholson's iconic performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Goodfellas": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Martin Scorsese's masterful crime epic based on the true story of mob associate Henry Hill."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Koyaanisqatsi": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "Godfrey Reggio's mesmerizing collage of American vistas set to Philip Glass music."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Land Beyond the Sunset": {
|
||||
"year": 1912,
|
||||
"description": "Early social drama about a boy's escape from tenement life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Let's All Go to the Lobby": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "The once-omnipresent movie theater intermission trailer seen by millions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Life of Emile Zola": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "Warner Bros. biographical film winning Best Picture Oscar for its portrayal of the French novelist."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Little Caesar": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "Showcasing Edward G. Robinson's timeless performance as a small-time hood."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Living Desert": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Walt Disney's groundbreaking True-Life Adventure documentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Love Finds Andy Hardy": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Perhaps the best entry in the long-running Andy Hardy series with Judy Garland and Lana Turner."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Multiple Sidosis": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Chosen to represent thousands of films produced by amateur cine clubs."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Network": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Wickedly satirical portrait of television news."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Peter Pan": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "Classic children's tale in its definitive film version."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Porky in Wackyland": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Master animator Bob Clampett's zany cartoon classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"President McKinley Inauguration Footage": {
|
||||
"year": 1901,
|
||||
"description": "Historical documentary footage of presidential inauguration."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Regeneration": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "Raoul Walsh's early feature about redemption in New York's Bowery district."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Salome": {
|
||||
"year": 1922,
|
||||
"description": "Alla Nazimova's avant-garde adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shaft": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Gordon Parks' landmark blaxploitation film featuring Richard Roundtree as the iconic detective."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sherman's March": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Hilarious, one-of-a-kind romantic exploration of the South."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Star Is Born": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor's musical remake featuring Judy Garland's powerhouse performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Tall T": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Budd Boetticher's lean, psychological Western starring Randolph Scott."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Why We Fight": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "Films produced during World War II to explain U.S. involvement."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Tashlin's satirical comedy about advertising and celebrity culture."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2001 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-01-184/national-film-registry-2001/2001-12-18/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2001 = {
|
||||
"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "Classic horror-comedy pairing the comedy duo with Universal's classic monsters."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All That Jazz": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical musical examining life, death, and artistic obsession."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All the King's Men": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Rossen's stunning political drama based on Robert Penn Warren's novel."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"America, America": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's epic about a Greek youth's journey to America."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "A home movie doubling as an illuminating and fascinating social documentary of a 1930s Minnesota town."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Evidence of the Film": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "Early crime drama demonstrating the use of film as legal evidence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hoosiers": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Inspirational sports drama about a small-town Indiana basketball team."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The House in the Middle": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "A 1950s-era civil defense film showing that neatness and cleanliness equal survival in the nuclear age."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"It": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "Clara Bow's star-making vehicle that defined the 'It Girl' phenomenon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jam Session": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "Musical short featuring performances by jazz legends."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jaws": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "The landmark horror film that created the phenomenon known as the 'summer movie'."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manhattan": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Woody Allen's loving, bittersweet paean to the Big Apple and New Yorkers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "A documentary record of the pivotal cultural event in which a major American artist turned a racial snub into an electrifying display of what America should mean."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Memphis Belle": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "William Wyler's documentary about a B-17 bomber crew's final mission."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Miracle of Morgan's Creek": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Preston Sturges' audacious comedy pushing the boundaries of the Production Code."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Miss Lulu Bett": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Early adaptation exploring women's roles and independence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"National Lampoon's Animal House": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "John Landis' influential comedy that defined the college fraternity genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Planet of the Apes": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "A brilliant allegory combining futuristic pulp science fiction with contemporary social commentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rose Hobart": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Joseph Cornell's avant-garde collage film created from footage of the 1931 film East of Borneo."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Serene Velocity": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Ernie Gehr's experimental film exploring perception and cinematic space."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Sound of Music": {
|
||||
"year": 1965,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Wise's beloved musical adaptation becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stormy Weather": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "Showcasing a once-in-a-lifetime cast of famed African American performers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Tell-Tale Heart": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "A stylish Dali-esque adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, fusing the UPA Studio's unique animation with James Mason's feverishly chilling narration."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thin Blue Line": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Errol Morris' groundbreaking documentary that helped free a wrongly convicted man."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Thing from Another World": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Classic science fiction thriller directed by Christian Nyby and produced by Howard Hawks."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
|
||||
# 2002 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-02-176/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-national-film-registry/2002-12-17/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2002 = {
|
||||
"Alien": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "The influential, spine-tingling sci-fi film where one learns that 'in space no one can hear you scream.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All My Babies": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "George Stoney's landmark educational film used to educate midwives in Georgia and throughout the South."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Bad and the Beautiful": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "Featuring Kirk Douglas as a ruthless film producer in one of Hollywood's most memorable examinations of its culture."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Beauty and the Beast": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's groundbreaking animated musical that revitalized the animation genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Black Stallion": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Carroll Ballard's evocative and visually stunning children's classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Boyz N the Hood": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "John Singleton's powerful debut film exploring life in South Central Los Angeles."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Theodore Case Sound Tests: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "One of two films illustrating technical innovation in cinema, in addition to being highly entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Endless Summer": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "Bruce Brown's droll documentary of two surfers and their around-the-world quest for the Perfect Wave."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"From Here to Eternity": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of James Jones' novel about Army life in Hawaii before Pearl Harbor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"From Stump to Ship": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "A once-forgotten 1930 logging film that has become a touchstone of cultural identity for Maine residents."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fuji": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Breer's avant-garde replication blending rotoscope, live-action imagery and line drawing of a train ride."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"In the Heat of the Night": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "The electrifying 1967 social drama where Sidney Poitier as 'Mister Tibbs' solves a crime his way."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lady Windermere's Fan": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Ernst Lubitsch's sophisticated silent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play of manners."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Melody Ranch": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "One of the best vehicles for Gene Autry as the first singing cowboy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Pearl": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "A landmark among English-language Mexican classics released for Hispanic audiences in the United States, featuring breathtaking cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Punch Drunks": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Classic Three Stooges comedy short."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sabrina": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder's romantic comedy featuring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Star Theatre": {
|
||||
"year": 1901,
|
||||
"description": "A dazzling 1901 time-lapse special effects film showing demolition of this New York City theater."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stranger Than Paradise": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Jim Jarmusch's minimalist independent film that became a landmark of American indie cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"This Is Cinerama": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "One of two films illustrating technical innovation in cinema, in addition to being highly entertaining."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"This Is Spinal Tap": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Rob Reiner's deft 'mockumentary' parody of a fictitious, touring heavy metal band."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Through Navajo Eyes": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "A pioneering series of anthropological films."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Why Man Creates": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "An animated paean to creativity by legendary film title sequence designer Saul Bass."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wild and Wooly": {
|
||||
"year": 1917,
|
||||
"description": "One of the films which created Douglas Fairbanks' film persona, showcasing his personal odyssey."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wild River": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's drama about the Tennessee Valley Authority and resistance to change."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
|
||||
# 2003 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-03-211/25-films-added-to-national-film-registry/2003-12-16
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2003 = {
|
||||
"Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary on musician-conductor Antonia Brica's life and struggles to become a symphony director despite gender discrimination."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Atlantic City": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Louis Malle's drama about aging Atlantic City and its transformation, featuring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "One of the most popular American films of all time with critically acclaimed performances by Paul Newman and Robert Redford."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Chechahcos": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "The first feature film produced in Alaska featuring spectacular location footage of the lonely and unfathomable Alaskan wilderness, frenzied dogsled pursuits and life-and-death struggles on the glaciers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dickson Experimental Sound Film": {
|
||||
"year": 1894,
|
||||
"description": "A very early attempt by W.K.L. Dickson of the Thomas Edison Company to combine film image and sound."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Film Portrait": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Avant-garde exploration of memory and family by Jerome Hill, a railroad tycoon descendant."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Culturally important newsreel footage of the renowned African American touring musical group of Charleston, S.C."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gold Diggers of 1933": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Arguably the definitive Depression-era musical, rife with visually stunning Busby Berkeley productions featuring elaborate choreography and social commentary on unemployed veterans."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hunters": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Seminal anthropological film chronicling a giraffe hunt by Kalahari Desert tribesmen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Matrimony's Speed Limit": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "Work by pioneering woman filmmaker Alice Guy Blache depicting a man financially compelled to marry by noon, thanks to some sneaky encouragement."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Medium Cool": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Haskell Wexler's groundbreaking film blending fiction and documentary during the 1968 Democratic National Convention."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"National Velvet": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Enduring family film classic with Elizabeth Taylor as a young girl whose wild ambition is to have her horse run in the Grand National Steeplechase."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Naughty Marietta": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "Cinema's first pairing of the electrifying singing duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who captivated audiences with songs."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nostalgia": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Avant-garde exploration of memory and family by Hollis Frampton."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Froggy Evening": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "Classic Chuck Jones creation features crooning frog Michigan J. Frog, who drives his owner insane by singing only in private, but never in public."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Patton": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Biographical war film about General George S. Patton featuring George C. Scott's iconic performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Princess Nicotine; or The Smoke Fairy": {
|
||||
"year": 1909,
|
||||
"description": "A dazzling special effects landmark from 1909, where fairies bedevil one man's attempt to light his pipe for a relaxing smoke."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Show People": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Classic silent comedy that showcases actress Marion Davies' deft touch for light comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Son of the Sheik": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Film featuring Rudolph Valentino in this slightly tongue-in-cheek adventure-romance released before his death."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tarzan and His Mate": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Rather steamy pre-Production Code Tarzan film, generally considered the finest in the series, with Tarzan and Jane battling poachers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tin Toy": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Early innovative short animation from Pixar Studios, which revolutionized American animation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wedding March": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Erich von Stroheim's lavish romantic drama set in pre-WWI Vienna."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"White Heat": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "Pulsating gangster film with James Cagney as a mother-obsessed, psychopathic gangster with an iconic ending."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Young Frankenstein": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Mel Brooks' affectionate parody of classic horror films, particularly the Frankenstein series."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Young Mr. Lincoln": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's biographical drama about Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2004 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-04-215/films-added-to-national-film-registry-for-2004/2004-12-28/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2004 = {
|
||||
"Ben-Hur": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Epic historical drama and one of the most celebrated films in cinema history."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Blue Bird": {
|
||||
"year": 1918,
|
||||
"description": "Maurice Tourneur's beautiful expressionist adaptation of Maurice Maeterlink's play remains one of the most aesthetically pleasing films."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Bronx Morning": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "Part documentary and part avant-garde, this renowned city symphony was filmed by Jay Leyda when he was 21."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Clash of the Wolves": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin was rescued during WWI and became a major 1920s Hollywood star. The film shows the resourceful dog rescuing protagonists and thwarting villains."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Court Jester": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "In this delightful adventure parody, famed comedian Danny Kaye plays a peasant leader who restores the rightful heir to the throne of England."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"D.O.A.": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "This pulsating film noir tells the story of a man who has been poisoned and tries to find his killer during his remaining few days."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Daughters of the Dust": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "This is the first feature-length film by an African-American woman to receive a wide theatrical release. Julie Dash eschews traditional narrative forms."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Duck and Cover": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "This landmark civil defense film was seen by millions of schoolchildren in the 1950s. As explained by Bert the Turtle, to survive an atomic attack you must 'duck and cover'."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Empire": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Andy Warhol's grueling, eight-hour, one-shot stationary camera take of the Empire State Building shakes the conventions of cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Enter the Dragon": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Martial arts legend Bruce Lee burst onto the American scene with this pulsating action flick, climaxed with the dazzling 'Hall of Mirrors' sequence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Eraserhead": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "A visually stunning portrayal of a man facing fatherhood in a nightmarish industrial world, David Lynch's first feature-length film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Les Blank's hilarious and affectionate homage to 'The Stinking Rose' delights slightly wacky devotees or alliumophiles."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Going My Way": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "This sentimental film favorite features Bing Crosby as a kindhearted Catholic priest whose upbeat, infectious personality rejuvenates his congregation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jailhouse Rock": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "This film showcasing Elvis Presley is in the ultimate rebel mode. The edginess reflected in this film was toned down in the singer's later movies."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kannapolis, NC": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "This example of a 'town portrait' was chosen to honor itinerant filmmakers who made films of ordinary people on typical days during the 1930s and 1940s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lady Helen's Escapade": {
|
||||
"year": 1909,
|
||||
"description": "This sprightly short comedy stars actress Florence Lawrence ('The Biograph Girl') who became the first true star in American cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Nutty Professor": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "This is considered comic genius Jerry Lewis' greatest film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"OffOn": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "This landmark work from California filmmaker Scott Bartlett is the first avant-garde work to fully marry video with film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Wildly popular during the 1930s, Popeye's impact was matched only by Mickey Mouse. This classic by renowned animators Max and Dave Fleischer features lush three-dimensional sets, Technicolor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pups Is Pups": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "One of the finest comedy shorts from the beloved Our Gang series, this film enchanted audiences from 1922 to 1944."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Schindler's List": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Spielberg's powerful Holocaust drama recognized as one of cinema's most important historical films."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Classic MGM musical featuring innovative choreography and memorable songs."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Swing Time": {
|
||||
"year": 1936,
|
||||
"description": "Legendary Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire musical features magical dancing set to six wonderful Jerome Kern tunes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"There It Is": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "One of the increasingly famous Charley Bowers surrealist shorts, this film combines live action with stop-motion object animation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Unforgiven": {
|
||||
"year": 1992,
|
||||
"description": "Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western that deconstructs the mythology of the Old West."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2005 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-05-262/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-national-film-registry-2/2005-12-20/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2005 = {
|
||||
"Baby Face": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Pre-Code melodrama featuring Barbara Stanwyck navigating the corporate world through charm and manipulation, exemplifying the audacious films made before the Production Code's 1934 imposition."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary by Appalshop examining the 1972 coal dam disaster in West Virginia and resulting corporate and governmental accountability."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Cameraman": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Buster Keaton's final comedy classic about an aspiring newsreel cameraman pursuing romance through elaborate sight gags."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Ethnographic film with synchronized sound recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community, directed by Zora Neale Hurston and others."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cool Hand Luke": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Paul Newman stars as an indomitable chain-gang prisoner resisting authority in this antihero classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Teen comedy balancing adolescent realism with humor, featuring ensemble cast including Sean Penn as surfer character Jeff Spicoli."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The French Connection": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Crime thriller featuring Gene Hackman's breakthrough performance and innovative New York City cinematography."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Giant": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "Epic three-hour Texas saga with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean adapting Edna Ferber's novel."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"H2O": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "Experimental cinematic tone poem by Ralph Steiner using water imagery and editing techniques for visual effect."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hands Up": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Civil War comedy with Raymond Griffith as a Confederate spy balancing humor with romantic appeal."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hoop Dreams": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Multiyear documentary following inner-city Chicago basketball players seeking college scholarships and examining systemic inequality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"House of Usher": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Horror adaptation featuring Vincent Price, establishing new standards for screen horror through elegant literary approach."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Imitation of Life": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Woman's picture pioneering dignified treatment of African-American characters in Hollywood through partnership narrative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest": {
|
||||
"year": 1910,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary recording the July 4 heavyweight championship bout, representing a signal moment in American race relations."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Making of an American": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "Connecticut-produced public education film promoting English language learning among immigrant communities."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Miracle on 34th Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "Fantasy about defending Santa Claus's authenticity against commercial pressures."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mom and Dad": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Sex-hygiene exploitation film becoming the third highest-grossing 1940s film despite modest production values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Music Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Musical adaptation of Meredith Willson's Iowa-centered Americana celebrating small-town American values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Power of the Press": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Newspaper thriller with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. investigating corruption and political malfeasance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Raisin in the Sun": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Civil rights era drama adapting Lorraine Hansberry's play with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Cult musical revolutionizing audience participation during film screenings."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906": {
|
||||
"year": 1906,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary capturing footage of the catastrophic natural disaster."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Sting": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Depression-era con-artist film starring Newman and Redford, reviving Scott Joplin's ragtime music popularity."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Time for Burning": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "Civil rights documentary chronicling a Lutheran minister's unsuccessful church integration efforts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Toy Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1995,
|
||||
"description": "First fully computer-animated feature film revolutionizing animation technology and delivery methods."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2006 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-06-234/films-added-to-national-film-registry-for-2006/2006-12-27/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2006 = {
|
||||
"Applause": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "This early sound-era masterpiece was the first film of both stage/director Rouben Mamoulian and cabaret/star Helen Morgan."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Big Trail": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "Director Raoul Walsh's Western featured John Wayne in an early role, using the experimental Grandeur wide-screen process for its Oregon Trail narrative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Blazing Saddles": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "This riotously funny, raunchy, no-holds-barred Western spoof by Mel Brooks is universally considered one of the 25 funniest American films."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Curse of Quon Gwon": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "The earliest known Chinese-American feature and one of the first films directed by a woman, recently restored by the Academy Film Archive."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Daughter of Shanghai": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "Features Anna May Wong as she uncovers the smuggling of illegal aliens through San Francisco's Chinatown, cooperating with costar Philip Ahn."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Drums of Winter [Uksuum Cauyai]": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Award-winning documentary exploring the rare dance language and culture of the Yup'ik Eskimo people in Emmonak, Alaska."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Harry Smith made his mark in many fields as a groundbreaking avant-garde animator whose work used batik, collage and optical printing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fargo": {
|
||||
"year": 1996,
|
||||
"description": "The Coen Brothers' original black comic spin on murder featuring Frances McDormand and William Macy in deadpan performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Flesh and the Devil": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "The first on-screen pairing of silent superstars John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, directed by Clarence Brown."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Groundhog Day": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "A clever comedy with a philosophical edge where Bill Murray relives the same day repeatedly, achieving personal redemption."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Halloween": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "John Carpenter's first commercially successful film that ushered in the dawn of the slasher film through tension rather than gore."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"In the Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "Lyrical, slice-of-life documentary by Helen Levitt, James Agee, and Janis Loeb capturing energy-filled streets of East Harlem."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Last Command": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Josef von Sternberg's drama features Emil Jannings, who is reduced to the scraps of 'extra' roles in Hollywood following Russian exile."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Notorious": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "Arguably Alfred Hitchcock's best black-and-white American film featuring Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Cary Grant in a Gothic spy narrative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Red Dust": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "Steamy pre-Production Code melodrama pairing Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in a Far East plantation setting with memorable chemistry."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Jonas Mekas' elegiac diary film of a trip to his Lithuanian birthplace, representing avant-garde experimental cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rocky": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Stirring tale of a million-to-one-shot underdog written by Sylvester Stallone, who also starred, becoming a top-grossing cultural sensation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"sex, lies and videotape": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Soderbergh explores personal relationships with low-key style that launched the independent film renaissance of subsequent decades."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Siege": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Julien Bryan's documentary captures the dreadful brutality of war through unique Warsaw footage documenting the German bombardment and blitzkrieg."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"St. Louis Blues": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "Features the only film recording of Bessie Smith, 'Queen of the Blues,' backed by African-American artists in a two-reel musical short."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The T.A.M.I. Show": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Quite possibly the greatest rock and rhythm-and-blues concert on film featuring the Rolling Stones and James Brown's legendary performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tess of the Storm Country": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "The feature film that made Canadian-born Mary Pickford a national icon and international celebrity in early cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Think of Me First as a Person": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Astonishing discovery depicting a father's loving portrait of his son with Down syndrome, representing American amateur filmmaking craftsmanship."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Time Out of War": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Easily in the pantheon of best student films ever produced, winning the Oscar for best short film about a temporary Civil War truce."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Traffic in Souls": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "Sensational exposé of 'white slavery' at six reels, capturing methods used to entrap working women and immigrants through location shooting."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2007 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-07-254/librarian-of-congress-announces-2007-film-registry/2007-12-27/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2007 = {
|
||||
"Back to the Future": {
|
||||
"year": 1985,
|
||||
"description": "Before 'Beowulf' or 'The Polar Express,' writer/director Robert Zemeckis explored the possibilities of special effects with the 1985 box-office smash 'Back to the Future.' The film follows Marty McFly, accidentally transported to 1955, who must return home while helping his father become a man and protecting his family's existence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bullitt": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "A crime drama shot on location in San Francisco, renowned for its exhilarating 11-minute car chase, arguably the finest in cinema history. Steve McQueen stars as a cop investigating a murder while navigating mob pressures and corrupt officials."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Spielberg's intelligent science fiction film featuring Devil's Tower as its iconic setting. The work explores humanity's quest to contact extraterrestrial life through visual and musical communication."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dance, Girl, Dance": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Dorothy Arzner's exploration of women in show business, following two performers pursuing careers in burlesque and ballet. The film examines tensions between art and commerce and feminist identity within entertainment."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dances With Wolves": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Kevin Costner's personal project about a cavalry soldier's spiritual transformation through contact with a Sioux tribe. The film presents one of the more sympathetic portraits of Native-American life in American cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Days of Heaven": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Described as one of the most beautiful films ever made, featuring sublime cinematography across Texas Panhandle wheat fields. The narrative depicts a doomed love triangle set within an impressionistic visual landscape."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Glimpse of the Garden": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Marie Menken's avant-garde short presenting a serendipitous visual tour of a flower garden set to a soundtrack of bird calls, representing accessible experimental filmmaking."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Grand Hotel": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "Edmund Goulding's ensemble piece featuring MGM stars including Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. The film represents the first use of the all-star formula in cinema history."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The House I Live In": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Mervyn LeRoy's short film featuring Frank Sinatra advocating religious tolerance. The work presents America's diverse cultural mosaic through Sinatra's performance of the title song."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"In a Lonely Place": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Nicholas Ray's scathing Hollywood satire starring Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter suspected of murder. The film explores the psychological deterioration of an unstable artist through noir-themed storytelling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's final Western masterpiece examining the triumph of civilization over frontier wildness. The film's concluding aphorism—'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend'—entered the American lexicon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mighty Like a Moose": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Charley Chase comedy short directed by Leo McCarey. The film presents a story of homely people whose cosmetic surgeries lead to mistaken-identity comedic complications."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Naked City": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "A groundbreaking crime procedural filming on actual New York City locations rather than studio sets. It introduced a new style of film-making combining documentary realism with dramatic storytelling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Now, Voyager": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "A resonant woman's picture featuring Bette Davis transforming from a dowdy spinster into an independent, confident woman through psychiatric treatment and romantic adventure at sea."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Oklahoma!": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation featuring breathtaking Technicolor vistas and stereo sound. The film depicts turn-of-the-century frontier life with Western genre conventions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Our Day": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Wallace Kelly's amateur 16mm home movie documenting his Kentucky household. This silent film demonstrates creative editing, lighting and camera techniques comparable to what professionals were doing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Peege": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Randal Kleiser's student film depicting family members visiting their blind, dying grandmother. The grandson's emotional connection with Peege creates a renowned, extremely moving narrative experience."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Sex Life of the Polyp": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Benchley's humorous short featuring the writer as a daft doctor delivering a droll but earnest lecture on polyp reproductive habits to a women's club."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Strong Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Harry Langdon silent comedy featuring the actor as a meek man loving a blind woman. This film predated similar romantic narratives by placing Langdon among The Four Silent Clowns alongside Chaplin and Keaton."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Three Little Pigs": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Walt Disney animated classic featuring personality-driven character animation. The title song 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf' became a Depression-era anthem."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tol'able David": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Henry King's coming-of-age drama about a youth overcoming bullying neighbors while delivering mail in rural Virginia. The film influenced Russian filmmakers of the 1920s through its innovative shot composition."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tom, Tom the Piper's Son": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Ken Jacobs's avant-garde masterpiece re-examining an early cinema fairy tale short. This structuralist film explores cinematic parameters through manipulation of motion and light."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"12 Angry Men": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay about jury deliberation in a murder trial. The film's spare, claustrophobic style dramatizes one juror's resistance to peer pressure."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Women": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor's ensemble comedy featuring multiple female leads without male characters. Based on Clare Boothe Luce's play, it explores women's choices between independence and romantic relationships."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wuthering Heights": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "William Wyler's adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel featuring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography deftly creates the moody, ethereal atmosphere of haunted love."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2008 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-08-237/2008-entries-to-national-film-registry-announced/2008-12-30
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2008 = {
|
||||
"The Asphalt Jungle": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "John Huston's brilliant crime drama contains the recipe for a meticulously planned robbery, but the cast of criminal characters features one too many bad apples."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Deliverance": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Four Atlanta professionals head for a weekend canoe trip — and instead meet up with two of the more memorable villains in film history."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Disneyland Dream": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to Disneyland as part of a contest, capturing a fantastic historical snapshot of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Catalina Island, Knott's Berry Farm, Universal Studios and Disneyland in mid-1956."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Face in the Crowd": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "A dark look at the way sudden fame and power can corrupt featuring Andy Griffith in his film debut as a rural drunk, drifter and country singer who becomes an overnight success."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Flower Drum Song": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "This film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical marked the first Hollywood studio film featuring performances by a mostly Asian cast, a break from past practice."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Foolish Wives": {
|
||||
"year": 1922,
|
||||
"description": "Director Erich von Stroheim's film tells the story of a criminal who passes himself off as a Russian count in order to seduce women of society and steal their money."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Free Radicals": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "For his four-minute work, Lye made scratches directly into the film stock. These scratches became 'figures of motion' that appear in the finished film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hallelujah": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "The all-black-cast film represents among the very first indisputable masterpieces of the sound era exploring themes of religion, sensuality and family stability."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"In Cold Blood": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "With an unsparing neo-realism, director Richard Brooks adapted Capote's novel, focusing on the motivations, backgrounds, and relationship of the killers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Invisible Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Director James Whale brought a dazzling stylishness to what were essentially low-budget horror films with sophisticated special effects."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Johnny Guitar": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Often described as the one of the stranger, kinkier Westerns of all time featuring women as the main stars (Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge)."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Killers": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "Director Robert Siodmak took the original Ernest Hemingway short story as the film's opening point and developed it with an elaborate series of flashbacks."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The March": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary examining the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington from the ground-level and focusing on the idealistic passion, joy and synergy of the crowds."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"No Lies": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Mitchell Block's 16-minute New York University student film dealing with the way rape victims are treated when they seek professional help for sexual assault."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"On the Bowery": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Lionel Rogosin's acclaimed, unrelenting docudrama about the infamous New York City zone known as the Bowery focusing on three of its alcoholic skid row denizens."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Week": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "The first publicly released two-reel short film starring Buster Keaton featuring hilarious comic, often surrealist, sequences chronicling the ill-fated attempts of a newlywed couple."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Pawnbroker": {
|
||||
"year": 1965,
|
||||
"description": "The first Hollywood film to depict in a realistic, psychologically probing manner the trauma of a Holocaust survivor, a subject previously taboo."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Perils of Pauline": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Among the very first American movie serials. Produced in 20 episodes featuring Pearl White as a young and wealthy heiress whose ingenuity, self-reliance and pluck enable her to regularly outwit a guardian."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sergeant York": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Gary Cooper, in one of his favorite roles, won his first Oscar for his dead-on portrayal of Tennessee pacifist Sgt. Alvin York in a stirring film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The 7th Voyage of Sinbad": {
|
||||
"year": 1958,
|
||||
"description": "Special-effects master Ray Harryhausen provides the hero with fantastic antagonists, including a giant cyclops, fire-breathing dragons, and a sword-wielding animated skeleton."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"So's Your Old Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "W.C. Fields starred in this silent comedy where Fields plays inventor Samuel Bisbee, who is considered a vulgarian by the town's elite."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"George Stevens World War II Footage": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "Director George Stevens shot many hours of footage chronicling D-Day and the liberation of Paris serving as an essential visual record of World War II."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Terminator": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Low-budget, but made with heart, verve, imagination, and superb Stan Winston special effects featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger's star-making performance as the mass-killing cyborg."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Water and Power": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Pat O'Neill's influential experimental work presenting a landscape film that became animated by the beginnings of human stories examining water and urban-rural dynamics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"White Fawn's Devotion": {
|
||||
"year": 1910,
|
||||
"description": "Film by James Young Deer, now recognized as the first documented movie director of Native American ancestry working in collaboration with his wife, actress Princess Red Wing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2009 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-09-250/2009-selections-to-the-national-film-registry-announced/2009-12-30/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2009 = {
|
||||
"Dog Day Afternoon": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Director Sidney Lumet balances suspense, violence and humor in Frank Pierson's Oscar-winning adaptation of a true-life bank robbery turned media circus."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Exiles": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Filmmaker Kent MacKenzie captures the raw essence of a group of 20-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live among the decayed Victorian mansions of Los Angeles' Bunker Hill district."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Heroes All": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "The Red Cross Bureau of Pictures produced more than 100 films, including 'Heroes All,' from 1917-1921, which are invaluable historical and visual records of the era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hot Dogs for Gauguin": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "This hilarious New York University student film was written and directed by Martin Brest who later went on to direct 'Beverly Hills Cop,' 'Scent of a Woman' and 'Meet Joe Black.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Incredible Shrinking Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "This sci-fi classic about a man who starts to shrink after being exposed to a strange cloud while on vacation is notable for its intelligent script and imaginative special effects."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jezebel": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "Bette Davis won her second Academy Award for this William Wyler-directed classic. Cast to perfection as a tempestuous southern belle, Davis' head-strong heroine must eventually learn self-sacrifice."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Jungle": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "A group of African-American teenage boys in Philadelphia made this hybrid documentary/dramatization of their lives in the 12th and Oxford Street gang."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lead Shoes": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "A dreamlike trance showing the unconscious acts of a disturbed mind through a distorted lens and other abstract visual techniques, by independent filmmaker Sidney Peterson."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Little Nemo": {
|
||||
"year": 1911,
|
||||
"description": "This classic work, a mix of live action and animation, was adapted from Winsor McCay's famed 1905 comic strip 'Little Nemo in Slumberland.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mabel's Blunder": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Mabel Normand, who wrote, directed and starred in 'Mabel's Blunder,' was the most successful of the early silent screen comediennes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Mark of Zorro": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Under Rouben Mamoulian's inventive direction, Tyrone Power plays Don Diego, son of a 19th-century Los Angeles governor who has been unseated by a mercenary despot."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mrs. Miniver": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "This remarkably touching wartime melodrama pictorializes the classic British stiff upper lip and the courage of a middle-class English family amid the chaos of air raids."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Muppet Movie": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Muppet creators Jim Henson and Frank Oz immersed their characters into a well-crafted combination of musical comedy and fantasy adventure."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Once Upon a Time in the West": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "Director Sergio Leone's operatic visual homage to the American Western legend is a chilling tale of vengeance set against the backdrop of the coming of the railroad."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pillow Talk": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "The first film to co-star Doris Day and Rock Hudson, remains one of the screen's most definitive, influential and timeless romantic comedies."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Precious Images": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Chuck Workman's legendary compilation film to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Directors Guild of America is also a dazzling celebration of American cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Quasi at the Quackadero": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Sally Cruikshank's wildly imaginative tale of odd creatures visiting a psychedelic amusement park careens creatively from strange to truly wacky scenes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Red Book": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Janie Geiser's work is known for its ambiguity, explorations of memory and emotional states and exceptional design in animated form."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Revenge of Pancho Villa": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "This extraordinary compilation film was made by the Padilla family in El Paso, Texas, from dozens of fact-based and fictional films about Pancho Villa."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Scratch and Crow": {
|
||||
"year": 1995,
|
||||
"description": "Helen Hill's student film made at the California Institute of the Arts is filled with vivid color and a light sense of humor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stark Love": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "A beautifully photographed mix of lyrical anthropology and action melodrama from director Karl Brown, cast exclusively with amateur actors and filmed in the Great Smoky Mountains."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Story of G.I. Joe": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "William Wellman's gritty portrayal of the realities of war was based on the newspaper columns of war correspondent Ernie Pyle."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Study in Reds": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "This polished amateur film by Miriam Bennett spoofs women's clubs and the Soviet menace in the 1930s through satirical narrative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Thriller": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "The most famous music video of all time caused such a buzz it was released theatrically in 35mm, directed by filmmaker John Landis."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Under Western Stars": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "This film turned Roy Rogers into a movie star, depicting a populist cowboy/congressman elected to champion small ranchers' water rights during the Dust Bowl."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2010 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-10-273/2010-national-film-registry-announced/2010-12-28/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2010 = {
|
||||
"Airplane!": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Emerged in 1980 as a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"All the President's Men": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "A rare example of a best-selling book that was transformed into a hit theatrical film and a cultural phenomenon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Bargain": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "William S. Hart's first film that made him a star, selected for Hart's charisma and the film's authentic portrayal of the Western genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cry of Jazz": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Now recognized as an early and influential example of African-American independent filmmaking, a 34-minute short exploring connections between Black American life and jazz music."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "A 15-minute film produced by George Lucas while a student at USC that won the 1968 National Student Film Festival drama award."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Empire Strikes Back": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "The much anticipated continuation of the Star Wars saga that sustained the action-adventure success and helped establish one of cinema's most commercially successful franchises."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Exorcist": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "One of the most successful and influential horror films of all time, exemplifying how popular novels can be effectively adapted for screen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Front Page": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "A historically significant early sound movie demonstrating Hollywood's rapid technical progress with sound technology innovation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Grey Gardens": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "An influential cinema verité documentary by Albert and David Maysles, examining the eccentric lives of two women related to Jacqueline Kennedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"I Am Joaquin": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "A 20-minute short film based on an epic poem, important to Chicano history and produced by Luis Valdez through Teatro Campesino."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"It's a Gift": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "The third Fields film to be named to the National Film Registry, featuring W.C. Fields in extended comic sequences adapted from his theatrical sketches."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Let There Be Light": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "A war documentary directed by John Huston that was banned by the War Department for 35 years due to its unflinching documentation of combat veterans' psychological trauma."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lonesome": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "One of the few American feature films directed by Hungarian filmmaker Paul Fejös, notable for early dialogue and two-color Technicolor use."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Make Way for Tomorrow": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "A sensitive, progressive, Depression-era film by director Leo McCarey exploring retirement, poverty, and generational discord."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Malcolm X": {
|
||||
"year": 1992,
|
||||
"description": "Director Spike Lee's biographical film about the life of civil rights leader Malcolm X, featuring an Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"McCabe and Mrs. Miller": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "An aesthetically acclaimed film by Robert Altman demonstrating how the Western genre examines contemporary American cultural realities."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Newark Athlete": {
|
||||
"year": 1891,
|
||||
"description": "Produced May-June 1891, one of the first films made in America at Edison Laboratory, representing early motion picture camera innovation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Our Lady of the Sphere": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "One of Lawrence Jordan's best-known works, an experimental animated film blending baroque and Victorian imagery with surrealistic dream-like imagery."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Pink Panther": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "A comic masterpiece by Blake Edwards introducing the animated Pink Panther and Peter Sellers as the iconic Inspector Clouseau character."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Preservation of the Sign Language": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "A short, one-reel film featuring George Veditz, documenting American Sign Language and advocating for deaf Americans' communication rights."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Saturday Night Fever": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "Produced long after the heyday of classic Hollywood musicals, this film proved the American movie musical could be reinvented with dramatic realism."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Study of a River": {
|
||||
"year": 1996,
|
||||
"description": "A meditative examination of the winter cycle of the Hudson River by experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton over a two-year period."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tarantella": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "A five-minute color, avant-garde short film created by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer combining visual music with electronic art in experimental cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan's first feature film exploring individual struggle against powerful forces, released at World War II's conclusion."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Trip Down Market Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1906,
|
||||
"description": "A 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car, capturing pre-earthquake San Francisco daily life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2011 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-240/2011-national-film-registry-more-than-a-box-of-chocolates/2011-12-28/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2011 = {
|
||||
"Allures": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Abstract imagery with a spiritual dimension featuring dazzling displays of color, light, and moving patterns by Jordan Belson, influenced by Wassily Kandinsky."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bambi": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "Walt Disney's animated coming-of-age story. One of film's most heart-rending stories of parental love with iconic characters and nature conservation messaging."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Big Heat": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Post-war noir film starring Glenn Ford. Filled with atmosphere, fascinating female characters, and a jolting degree of violence directed by Fritz Lang."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Computer Animated Hand": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Ed Catmull's pioneering work. One of the earliest examples of 3D computer animation displaying hand movements and finger flexing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Drew's cinema-verite documentary capturing Governor George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door and President Kennedy's response during University of Alabama desegregation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Cry of the Children": {
|
||||
"year": 1912,
|
||||
"description": "Silent melodrama addressing child labor reform. The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for stamping out social abuse."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Cure for Pokeritis": {
|
||||
"year": 1912,
|
||||
"description": "John Bunny comedy. Actor recognized as the living symbol of wholesome merriment."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"El Mariachi": {
|
||||
"year": 1992,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Rodriguez's $7,000 indie film. An energetic, highly entertaining tale of a musician mistaken for a hit man during a drug war."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Faces": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "John Cassavetes' work described as a barrage of attack on contemporary middle-class America exploring marriage dissolution."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fake Fruit Factory": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Chick Strand's documentary blending ethnographic techniques. An expressive, sympathetic look at Mexican women creating papier-mâché ornaments."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Forrest Gump": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Tom Hanks vehicle. A smash hit receiving six Academy Awards including Best Picture with technological innovations in digital insertion."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Growing Up Female": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary from women's liberation movement. Among the first films documenting female identity formation across life stages."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hester Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's novel. A portrait of Eastern European Jewish life in America examining immigration experiences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"I, an Actress": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "George Kuchar's avant-garde short. Hilarious documentation of directing technique emphasizing camp aesthetics and love of artifice and exaggeration."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Iron Horse": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's epic Western. Employed more than 5,000 extras celebrating transcontinental railroad construction and immigrant contributions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Kid": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Charlie Chaplin's feature debut. An artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lost Weekend": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Billy Wilder film. An uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism winning four Academy Awards."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Negro Soldier": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra production unit film. A watershed in the use of film to promote racial tolerance featuring dignified African-American representation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "Archival footage of renowned dancers. Capture a golden age of show business with rare documentation of Cotton Club and Broadway performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Norma Rae": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Sally Field vehicle. A treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women based on true unionization efforts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Porgy and Bess": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "George Gershwin's folk opera adaptation. Lavish production filmed during civil rights movement tensions regarding African-American representation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Silence of the Lambs": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Jonathan Demme thriller. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay featuring Anthony Hopkins."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stand and Deliver": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Edward James Olmos film. Celebrates values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge from Latino filmmakers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Twentieth Century": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks comedy. Marked the first of director Howard Hawks' frenetic comedies establishing screwball comedy genre conventions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"War of the Worlds": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Byron Haskin adaptation. Released at the height of cold-war hysteria with Academy Award-winning special effects described as soul-chilling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2012 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-12-226/cinematic-firsts-enshrined-in-2012-film-registry/2012-12-19/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2012 = {
|
||||
"3:10 to Yuma": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "A 1950s western that has gained in stature since its original release for its psychological depth, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin in roles against type."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Anatomy of a Murder": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Director Otto Preminger's crime-trial film featuring James Stewart, known for blunt language and willingness to openly discuss adult themes with a Duke Ellington score."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Augustas": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "A 16-minute silent film documenting various American towns named Augusta, compiled from footage by traveling salesman Scott Nixon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Born Yesterday": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Judy Holliday's Oscar-winning performance anchors this comedy about Washington corruption, described as full of charm and wit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Breakfast at Tiffany's": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Blake Edwards' adaptation of Truman Capote's novella, starring Audrey Hepburn, with Henry Mancini's classic 'Moon River' composition."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Christmas Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "Bob Clark's nostalgic film about childhood in 1940s Indiana, narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd with detail after nostalgic detail."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight": {
|
||||
"year": 1897,
|
||||
"description": "An approximately 100-minute boxing documentary, the longest movie produced at that time and a tremendous commercial success."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dirty Harry": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Clint Eastwood's iconic role as rogue cop Harry Callahan under Don Siegel's direction, marking a major turning point in Eastwood's career."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Nathaniel Dorsky's silent tone poem capturing daily life across four seasons, filmed at silent speed, between 17 and 20 frames per second."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Kidnappers Foil": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "Dallas filmmaker Melton Barker's itinerant productions featuring local children, with 50 to 75 would-be Shirley Temples and Jackie Coopers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests": {
|
||||
"year": 1922,
|
||||
"description": "Paragon Studios demonstration reel showcasing early color film technology with leading actresses including Mae Murray and Hope Hampton."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A League of Their Own": {
|
||||
"year": 1992,
|
||||
"description": "Penny Marshall's ensemble comedy-drama about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, both funny and feminist in approach."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Matrix": {
|
||||
"year": 1999,
|
||||
"description": "The Wachowskis' science-fiction epic using state-of-the-art special effects and innovative digital techniques for action sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Westinghouse industrial film shot in Technicolor documenting the 1939 Fair's technological achievements and the heartland values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One Survivor Remembers": {
|
||||
"year": 1995,
|
||||
"description": "Academy Award-winning documentary by Kary Antholis about Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, told with simple yet powerful eloquence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Parable": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Allegorical film debuting at the 1964 World's Fair depicting Jesus as an enigmatic, chalk-white, skull-capped circus clown."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Ellen Bruno's documentary using ancient Buddhist teachings and folklore to contextualize Cambodia's post-Pol Pot reconstruction efforts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Slacker": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Richard Linklater's independent film shot on 16mm with $23,000 budget, regarded as a touchstone in the blossoming of American independent cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sons of the Desert": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy featuring many of the comedic techniques that had made Laurel & Hardy such masters."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Spook Who Sat by the Door": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Sam Greenlee adaptation about a Black CIA agent sparking nationalist revolution, restored for DVD as a story of black insurrection."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"They Call It Pro Football": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "NFL Films' inaugural feature, characterized as the 'Citizen Kane' of sports movies for its dramaturgical approach to football."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Times of Harvey Milk": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Rob Epstein's Academy Award-winning documentary about San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor and his 1978 assassination."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Two-Lane Blacktop": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Minimalist Monte Hellman film following cross-country car racers, described as allowing audiences time to absorb the film's spare landscapes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Uncle Tom's Cabin": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Historic film starring Sam Lucas, said to be the first feature-length American film that starred a black actor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Maurice Tourneur's rediscovered film praised for incredible sophistication of camerawork, lighting, and editing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2013 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-216
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2013 = {
|
||||
"Bless Their Little Hearts": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Part of the vibrant New Wave of independent African-American filmmakers to emerge in the 1970s and 1980s, this UCLA thesis film presents a family struggling through economic hardship with both sadness and humor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Brandy in the Wilderness": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Stanton Kaye's experimental work documents a real couple's relationship through vignettes, blurring the distinction between documentary and fiction in a 1960s aesthetic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cicero March": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "This documentary captures civil rights confrontations during the Chicago Freedom Movement, documenting the tense encounters between activists and residents of an all-white Illinois town."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Daughter of Dawn": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "Featuring an all-Native-American cast of Comanches and Kiowas, this silent film presents a priceless record of Native-American customs, traditions and artifacts of the time."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Decasia": {
|
||||
"year": 2002,
|
||||
"description": "Created from deteriorating nitrate film stock, Bill Morrison's experimental work uses decomposing found film to create imagery that transforms before viewers' eyes, accompanied by composer Michael Gordon's music."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ella Cinders": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Colleen Moore stars in this Cinderella-inspired comedy exemplifying 1920s humor and the flapper aesthetic, celebrated for its energetic protagonist."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Forbidden Planet": {
|
||||
"year": 1956,
|
||||
"description": "MGM's science-fiction epic loosely adapts Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring themes of power and technology while pioneering intergalactic storytelling and electronic soundscapes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gilda": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "This film noir features Rita Hayworth in an iconic performance, representing the Hollywood glamorization of film noir—long on sex appeal but short on substance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hole": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "John and Faith Hubley's Academy Award-winning animated meditation contemplates nuclear catastrophe through dialogue improvised by Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Judgment at Nuremberg": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Examining post-WWII justice, screenwriter Abby Mann's adaptation argues that those responsible for administering justice also have the duty to ensure that human-rights norms are preserved."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"King of Jazz": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "This early Technicolor musical revue centers on orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, featuring performances from Bing Crosby and George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lunch Date": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Adam Davidson's 10-minute student film explores the partial erosion of haughty self-confidence when stranded outside one's personal comfort zone through an unexpected encounter."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Magnificent Seven": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, this Western features Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn as gunslingers protecting Mexican villagers from bandits."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Martha Graham Early Dance Films": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "This collection includes 'Heretic,' 'Frontier,' 'Lamentation,' and 'Appalachian Spring'—silent films documenting the pioneering modern dance choreographer's revolutionary techniques."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mary Poppins": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's beloved musical featuring Julie Andrews combines animation with live action, integrating a witty script, an inventive visual style and a slate of classic songs."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Men and Dust": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Producer-director Lee Dick's labor advocacy documentary examines mining-related diseases across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, serving as an ecological record of industrial transformation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Midnight": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Mitchell Leisen's romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert impersonating a Hungarian countess, praised by the New York Times as 'one of the liveliest, gayest, wittiest comedies.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Notes on the Port of St. Francis": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Stauffacher's impressionistic film combines iconic San Francisco imagery with narration by Vincent Price based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 essay."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pulp Fiction": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Quentin Tarantino's influential independent film combines narrative elements of hardboiled crime novels and film noir with the bright widescreen visuals of Sergio Leone."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Quiet Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1952,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's tribute to Irish heritage stars John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, beautifully photographed in rich, saturated Technicolor and shot on location."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Right Stuff": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "Philip Kaufman's three-hour-thirteen-minute epic adapts Tom Wolfe's novel about space program pioneers, blending Western elements with satire to examine national pride and hero worship."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Roger & Me": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Michael Moore's documentary chronicles General Motors' layoffs affecting 30,000 Flint workers, examining the human toll and hemorrhaging of jobs during economic upheaval."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Virtuous Vamp": {
|
||||
"year": 1919,
|
||||
"description": "Screenwriter Anita Loos crafted this satirical workplace romance starring Constance Talmadge, whose character's knowing innocence captured audiences' imagination during the silent era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "Edward Albee's adaptation features Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a warring couple, presenting frank, code-busting language and depictions of middle-class malaise-cum-rage."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wild Boys of the Road": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "William Wellman's Depression-era drama portrays homeless teens hopping freight trains, representing Warner Bros.' gritty social conscience dramas of the early 1930s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2014 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-14-210/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2014 = {
|
||||
"13 Lakes": {
|
||||
"year": 2004,
|
||||
"description": "James Benning's feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings shot at 13 American lakes in identical 10-minute takes, exploring landscape as a temporal element."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "Seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage featuring vaudevillian Bert Williams, believed to constitute the earliest surviving feature film starring black actors."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Big Lebowski": {
|
||||
"year": 1998,
|
||||
"description": "Joel and Ethan Coen's tale of kidnapping, mistaken identity and bowling became a highly quoted cult classic despite modest initial box office performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Down Argentine Way": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Betty Grable's breakthrough Technicolor musical where she traveled to South America and fell in love with Don Ameche, establishing her as a major star."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Dragon Painter": {
|
||||
"year": 1919,
|
||||
"description": "Sessue Hayakawa's film about an obsessed, untutored painter who loses his artistic powers after he finds and marries a supposed dragon princess."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Felicia": {
|
||||
"year": 1965,
|
||||
"description": "A 13-minute short subject documenting a slice of life in the Watts neighborhood through a teenager's first-person narrative perspective."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "John Hughes's story of a teenage wiseacre whose day playing hooky leads to comic adventures and personal growth for himself and friends."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Gang's All Here": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical featuring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda with legendary musical number choreography by Busby Berkeley."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"House of Wax": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "The first full-length 3-D color film produced by major American studio, introducing 3-D effects widely while establishing Vincent Price as horror master."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Into the Arms of Strangers": {
|
||||
"year": 2000,
|
||||
"description": "Oscar-winning documentary examining the Kindertransport operation that placed thousands of Jewish children with foster families in Great Britain before WWII."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Little Big Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Arthur Penn's Western following a 121-year-old man looking back at his life as a pioneer with narrative interweaving fact and myth."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Luxo Jr.": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "The iconic living, moving desk lamp in Pixar's charming, computer-animated short subject that became the studio's logo."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Moon Breath Beat": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "CalArts student Lisze Bechtold's experimental animation exploring what happens when an animator follows a line, a patch of color, or a shape into the unconscious."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Please Don't Bury Me Alive!": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Considered by historians to be the first Chicano feature film, writer-director Efraín Gutiérrez's independent production addressing Vietnam War era identity."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Power and the Glory": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Preston Sturges's debut screenplay, a haunting tragedy that introduced a non-chronological structure to mainstream movies influencing later classics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rio Bravo": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks Western where a sheriff and his deputies are waiting in a jail for a prisoner transfer and anticipated escape attempt."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rosemary's Baby": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece where protagonist comes to believe that a cult of witches in the building is implementing a plot against her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ruggles of Red Gap": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "Charles Laughton's comedy about an English manservant won in a poker game who discovers American egalitarianism and becomes a businessman."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Saving Private Ryan": {
|
||||
"year": 1998,
|
||||
"description": "Spielberg's WWII film dropping ordinary soldiers into a near-impossible rescue mission set amid the carnage of Omaha Beach landing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shoes": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Lois Weber's social drama documenting the suffering of an underpaid shopgirl struggling to support family through poverty and exploitation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"State Fair": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Henry King's celebration of state fair traditions starring Will Rogers in a small town slice-of-life setting with Americana and romance storylines."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Unmasked": {
|
||||
"year": 1917,
|
||||
"description": "Grace Cunard's film where she not only starred but also wrote its script and parlayed her contributions into a directorial role."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"V-E +1": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Samuel Fuller's silent 16 mm footage documenting the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims at Falkenau concentration camp liberation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Way of Peace": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Tashlin's puppet animation film sponsored by the American Lutheran Church using stop-motion to reinforce Christian values during the atomic age."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Gene Wilder stars in this musical adaptation where surreal, yet playful production design creates the fanciful world of Roald Dahl's imagination."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2015 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-15-216
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2015 = {
|
||||
"Being There": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "A simple-minded gardener becomes mistaken for a profound political advisor through a series of misunderstandings, creating a philosophically complex satire on society and media influence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Black and Tan": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "An early musical short featuring Duke Ellington and celebrating African-American jazz musicians during the Harlem Renaissance era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dracula (Spanish language version)": {
|
||||
"year": 1931,
|
||||
"description": "A Spanish-language adaptation filmed concurrently with the English version, now considered superior in cinematography and lighting."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dream of a Rarebit Fiend": {
|
||||
"year": 1906,
|
||||
"description": "A pioneering fantasy comedy employing groundbreaking trick photography and special effects to depict hallucinatory dreams."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "A documentary exploring the pioneering motion studies that led to cinema's invention and their philosophical implications."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze": {
|
||||
"year": 1894,
|
||||
"description": "The oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, featuring a simple sneeze that became synonymous with movies' invention."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Fool There Was": {
|
||||
"year": 1915,
|
||||
"description": "A film establishing the 'vamp' genre archetype, starring Theda Bara and setting unprecedented promotional standards."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ghostbusters": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "A horror-comedy about three scientists who establish a ghost-removal service in New York, blending wacky humor with supernatural elements."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hail the Conquering Hero": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "A wartime satire by Preston Sturges exploring hero worship and small-town politics with sharp wit and visual vigor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Humoresque": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "A sympathetic portrayal of Jewish immigrant life and acculturation, featuring riveting performances and emotional depth."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Imitation of Life": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "A melodrama examining motherhood and identity through stylized cinematography and exquisite use of color and camera angles."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Inner World of Aphasia": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "A medical-training film depicting a nurse's struggle to communicate with an aphasia patient through poetic storytelling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"John Henry and the Inky-Poo": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "A stop-motion animation celebrating African-American folklore with dignity, imagination, poetry, and love."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"L.A. Confidential": {
|
||||
"year": 1997,
|
||||
"description": "A film-noir crime story featuring incompatible cops who expose police corruption through a virtuoso choreographed shootout."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Mark of Zorro": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "Douglas Fairbanks' swashbuckling tale establishing the masked hero archetype with athletic prowess and wit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Old Mill": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "A Disney animated short featuring the first use of the multiplane camera, advancing animation technology significantly."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Our Daily Bread": {
|
||||
"year": 1934,
|
||||
"description": "A Depression-era film examining cooperative farming as an alternative to individualistic competition and unemployment."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Portrait of Jason": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "One of the first LGBT films widely accepted by general audiences, using cinema vérité techniques with documentary authenticity."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Seconds": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "A paranoid thriller about identity and second chances, featuring disorienting cinematography and psychological tension."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Shawshank Redemption": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "A Stephen King adaptation about wrongful imprisonment and human resilience, gaining widespread acclaim over time."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sink or Swim": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "An autobiographical documentary using poetically powerful text to explore father-daughter relationships and emotional trauma."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Story of Menstruation": {
|
||||
"year": 1946,
|
||||
"description": "A Disney educational film addressing menstruation for young women, viewed by approximately 93 million girls."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "A meta-documentary examining film creation with three camera crews exploring production tensions and revolutionary philosophy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Top Gun": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "An action film celebrating naval aviation with vertiginous fighter-plane sequences that influenced filmmaking aesthetics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Winchester '73": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "A psychological Western exploring vengeance and morality as a rifle passes through multiple hands, changing each owner."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2016 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-209
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2016 = {
|
||||
"The Atomic Cafe": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary compiled from archival Cold War footage documenting post-WWII nuclear threat fears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ball of Fire": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks screwball comedy featuring Barbara Stanwyck as a showgirl hiding among encyclopedia-compiling scholars."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Beau Brummels": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Eight-minute Vitaphone vaudeville short showcasing the deadpan comic duo's signature hat-swapping routine."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Birds": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Hitchcock masterpiece blending psychological horror with suspense, culminating in an unforgettable final scene."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Blackboard Jungle": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Drama exploring juvenile delinquency in urban schools, featuring early rock and roll on its soundtrack."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Breakfast Club": {
|
||||
"year": 1985,
|
||||
"description": "John Hughes comedy examining social hierarchies among high school archetypes during Saturday detention."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Decline of Western Civilization": {
|
||||
"year": 1981,
|
||||
"description": "Penelope Spheeris documentary capturing LA's hardcore punk scene through performances and interviews."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"East of Eden": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Elia Kazan adaptation of Steinbeck exploring familial conflict and teen angst with James Dean's celebrated performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Funny Girl": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "Musical featuring Barbra Streisand's screen debut as legendary performer Fanny Brice."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Life of an American Fireman": {
|
||||
"year": 1903,
|
||||
"description": "Edwin S. Porter pioneering work demonstrating innovative editing and narrative film techniques."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lion King": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Disney animated feature blending innovative animation with voice acting and Elton John's musical compositions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lost Horizon": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "Frank Capra's fantastical romance set in a Himalayan utopia, popularizing the term 'Shangri-La.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Musketeers of Pig Alley": {
|
||||
"year": 1912,
|
||||
"description": "D.W. Griffith's 17-minute work considered cinema's first gangster film, employing revolutionary camera techniques."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Paris Is Burning": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary exploring 1980s New York ballroom subculture among Black and Hispanic LGBTQ+ communities."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Point Blank": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "John Boorman crime thriller reimagining noir aesthetics through Panavision cinematography and bold color."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Princess Bride": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "Rob Reiner's lighthearted fairy tale parody retaining William Goldman's wit and memorable dialogue."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Putney Swope": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Downey Sr. surrealistic satire depicting an advertising agency takeover by Black nationalists."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rushmore": {
|
||||
"year": 1998,
|
||||
"description": "Wes Anderson indie film capturing Gen X sensibilities through a protagonist navigating academic misfit status."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Solomon Sir Jones Films": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "Collection of 29 silent films documenting African-American life across Oklahoma communities during rapid social change."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Steamboat Bill, Jr.": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Buster Keaton comedy showcasing physical comedy mastery through breath-stopping stunts and cyclone sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Suzanne, Suzanne": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Thirty-minute documentary examining substance abuse's connection to domestic violence within a middle-class family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Thelma & Louise": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Ridley Scott feminist manifesto following two women's crime spree, anchored by career-defining performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea": {
|
||||
"year": 1916,
|
||||
"description": "Stuart Paton's pioneering submarine film featuring groundbreaking underwater cinematography and special effects."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Walk in the Sun": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Lewis Milestone WWII drama emphasizing character study over battle scenes, exploring soldiers' psychological stress."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Landmark film noir comedy blending cartoon and live-action characters through innovative special effects techniques."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2017 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-178
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2017 = {
|
||||
"Ace in the Hole": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "A deeply cynical look at journalism featuring Kirk Douglas as a reporter exploiting a cave rescue story for national prominence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Boulevard Nights": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary-style depiction of Chicano youth navigating gang life in East Los Angeles, shot with community participation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Die Hard": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Bruce Willis stars as a cop battling terrorists in an LA office tower; gripping action sequences and well-crafted humor made it a major hit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dumbo": {
|
||||
"year": 1941,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's tale of an elephant with large ears learning to fly, praised for lovely drawing, original score, and uplifting message."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Field of Dreams": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Kevin Costner's story of an Iowa farmer building a baseball diamond; a story of redemption and faith."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"4 Little Girls": {
|
||||
"year": 1997,
|
||||
"description": "Spike Lee's documentary examining the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four children, sensitively rendered."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection": {
|
||||
"year": 1920,
|
||||
"description": "Home movies from Corpus Christi capturing Mexican-American community life, among the earliest visual records."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gentleman's Agreement": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "1947 Best Picture winner exploring anti-Semitism through a journalist posing as Jewish to understand discrimination firsthand."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Goonies": {
|
||||
"year": 1985,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Spielberg-produced adventure about outsider kids on a treasure hunt with Tom Sawyeresque charm."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Spencer Tracy's final film addressing interracial marriage with Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier delivering powerful performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"He Who Gets Slapped": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "MGM's first complete production featuring Lon Chaney as a scientist-turned-circus clown in an early creepy clown film."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1905,
|
||||
"description": "Early actuality film documenting the newly opened subway, coordinating three trains for the filming."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"La Bamba": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "Luis Valdez's biopic of Ritchie Valens, rock's first Mexican-American superstar, with Lou Diamond Phillips in the lead role."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lives of Performers": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Yvonne Rainer's experimental film described as a stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Memento": {
|
||||
"year": 2000,
|
||||
"description": "Christopher Nolan's breakthrough thriller told non-linearly to mirror the protagonist's short-term memory loss."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Only Angels Have Wings": {
|
||||
"year": 1939,
|
||||
"description": "Howard Hawks' aviation melodrama starring Cary Grant as a hard-talking air freight company head with dazzling air sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Sinking of the Lusitania": {
|
||||
"year": 1918,
|
||||
"description": "Winsor McCay's propaganda animation combining multiple techniques to document the ship's sinking and protest isolationism."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Spartacus": {
|
||||
"year": 1960,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick-directed epic with Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier; helped end the Hollywood blacklist by hiring blacklisted writer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Superman": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Richard Donner's origins story making audiences believe a man can fly with Christopher Reeve's iconic performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "Charlotte Zwerin's documentary blending interviews and concert footage, reminding viewers Monk was as important a jazz composer as pianist."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Time and Dreams": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Mort Jordan's personal documentary contrasting nostalgia with civil rights activism in rural Alabama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Titanic": {
|
||||
"year": 1997,
|
||||
"description": "James Cameron's epic retelling the maritime disaster; big, bold, touchingly uncynical filmmaking becoming a cultural phenomenon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"To Sleep with Anger": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Charles Burnett's domestic drama exploring cultural conflicts within a Black family through a storyteller character."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wanda": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Barbara Loden's character study of an isolated Pennsylvania woman, considered one of the finest works of independent cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary shot during the Spanish Civil War featuring work by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2018 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-18-144/library-of-congress-national-film-registry-turns-30/2018-12-12/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2018 = {
|
||||
"Bad Day at Black Rock": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Spencer Tracy stars as a one-armed man arriving in a desert town, uncovering dark secrets when searching for a former Japanese-American resident."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Broadcast News": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "A comedy set in television news featuring Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks navigating romance and journalistic ethics."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Brokeback Mountain": {
|
||||
"year": 2005,
|
||||
"description": "An Academy Award-winning drama depicting a secret love affair between two closeted gay ranch hands over 20 years."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cinderella": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's animated adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring sparkling songs and breathtaking animation sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Days of Wine and Roses": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Jack Lemmon portrays a man whose descent into alcoholism drags his wife into destructive behavior."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency": {
|
||||
"year": 1908,
|
||||
"description": "Rare documentary footage capturing Native American life, Crow Fair, and a recreation of the Battle of Little Big Horn."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Eve's Bayou": {
|
||||
"year": 1997,
|
||||
"description": "Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, this Southern gothic tale explores family secrets discovered by a young African-American girl."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Girl Without a Soul": {
|
||||
"year": 1917,
|
||||
"description": "A silent film by John H. Collins featuring Viola Dana in a dual role as twin sisters, one gifted and one troubled."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "An animated short by Ayoka Chenzira examining African-American women's hair identity and self-acceptance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hearts and Minds": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Peter Davis's Academy Award-winning Vietnam War documentary examining causes, conduct, and consequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hud": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Paul Newman plays a ruthless Texas rancher's son in conflict with his father over business and family values."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Informer": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "John Ford's 11th film in the registry depicts an informant during the Irish Rebellion of 1922 facing consequences for betrayal."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jurassic Park": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "Steven Spielberg's blockbuster about dinosaurs on a remote island where evolutionary manipulation has gone awry."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lady From Shanghai": {
|
||||
"year": 1947,
|
||||
"description": "Orson Welles directs this stylish film noir renowned for its 'Aquarium' scene and 'Hall of Mirrors' climax."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Leave Her to Heaven": {
|
||||
"year": 1945,
|
||||
"description": "Gene Tierney stars as a possessive femme fatale whose obsessive love masks sociopathic tendencies in vibrant Technicolor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Monterey Pop": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "D.A. Pennebaker's seminal music-festival documentary featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and other iconic performers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"My Fair Lady": {
|
||||
"year": 1964,
|
||||
"description": "George Cukor directs this opulent musical adaptation featuring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in a tale of transformation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Navigator": {
|
||||
"year": 1924,
|
||||
"description": "Buster Keaton stars as an inept millionaire stranded at sea who demonstrates ingenuity to survive."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"On the Town": {
|
||||
"year": 1949,
|
||||
"description": "Three sailors with 24 hours' shore leave in New York with Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin in a musical adventure."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"One-Eyed Jacks": {
|
||||
"year": 1961,
|
||||
"description": "Marlon Brando's sole directorial effort, a Western marking the transition from Classic to New Hollywood filmmaking."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pickup on South Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "Samuel Fuller's Cold War thriller about a pickpocket accidentally stealing secret microfilm pursued by multiple factions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Rebecca": {
|
||||
"year": 1940,
|
||||
"description": "Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's novel about a mysterious deceased first wife's shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Shining": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick's inventive adaptation of Stephen King's novel featuring stunning visuals and iconic performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Smoke Signals": {
|
||||
"year": 1998,
|
||||
"description": "The first feature film written, directed, and produced by Native Americans, offering authentic cultural perspectives."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Something Good – Negro Kiss": {
|
||||
"year": 1898,
|
||||
"description": "A recently discovered 29-second film representing possibly the earliest example of African-American intimacy on screen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2019 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-116/women-rule-2019-national-film-registry/2019-12-11/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2019 = {
|
||||
"Amadeus": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Milos Forman's film explores classical composers Mozart and Salieri, examining genius and jealous obsession through an Oscar-winning performance by F. Murray Abraham."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Becky Sharp": {
|
||||
"year": 1935,
|
||||
"description": "First feature-length film using three-strip Technicolor, adapting Thackeray's novel about a socially ambitious woman's destructive climb through class systems."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Before Stonewall": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary narrated by Rita Mae Brown documenting LGBTQ history in 20th-century America through archival footage and interviews, commemorating the Stonewall riots."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Body and Soul": {
|
||||
"year": 1925,
|
||||
"description": "Oscar Micheaux's pioneering film featuring Paul Robeson in dual roles, addressing critical issues within Black communities despite production challenges."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Boys Don't Cry": {
|
||||
"year": 1999,
|
||||
"description": "Kimberly Peirce's docudrama based on Brandon Teena's tragic story, bringing hate crimes into public spotlight with Hilary Swank's Oscar-winning performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Clerks": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Kevin Smith's $27,000 indie debut about two sardonic convenience store workers, gaining cult status and the most public votes in this year's registry balloting."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Coal Miner's Daughter": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Biopic of country music legend Loretta Lynn's journey from Kentucky to stardom, earning Sissy Spacek an Academy Award for best actress."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island": {
|
||||
"year": 1903,
|
||||
"description": "Edison company's two-minute actuality film documenting immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, historically significant as first recorded footage of this moment."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Employees Entrance": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Pre-Production Code film examining machinations in a Depression-era New York department store, capturing real urban tensions with Warren Williams' characterization."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fog of War": {
|
||||
"year": 2003,
|
||||
"description": "Errol Morris documentary featuring Robert McNamara reexamining his role as Vietnam War architect, structured around 11 lessons about moral complexities."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Gaslight": {
|
||||
"year": 1944,
|
||||
"description": "MGM psychological thriller where Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar, exploring whether a Victorian woman is going mad in George Cukor's direction."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute": {
|
||||
"year": 1937,
|
||||
"description": "12 minutes of Kodachrome color footage documenting the renowned botanist and inventor in his daily activities at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Girlfriends": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Claudia Weill's film about an independent New York photographer navigating career aspirations and relationships after her best friend's marriage."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"I Am Somebody": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "Madeline Anderson's documentary of the 1969 Charleston hospital workers' strike, considered the first televised civil rights documentary by a woman of color."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Last Waltz": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "Martin Scorsese's documentary tribute to The Band's 1976 farewell concert at Winterland, featuring iconic musical performances by era-defining artists."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"My Name Is Oona": {
|
||||
"year": 1969,
|
||||
"description": "Gunvor Nelson's avant-garde portrait of her daughter's dreamlike interactions with nature, employing experimental techniques and slow-motion cinematography."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A New Leaf": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Elaine May became the first woman to write, direct and star in a major studio feature, combining Depression-era screwball comedy with slapstick traditions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Old Yeller": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's beloved canine classic about a boy and his dog, produced to touch audiences with both laughter and tears through emotionally affecting storytelling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Phenix City Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Film noir based on 1954 Alabama murder case, using innovative camera work to depict an attorney's fight against organized crime in 'Sin City.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Platoon": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Oliver Stone's autobiographical Vietnam War film eschewing heroic fiction, featuring Samuel Barber's elegiac score and anti-war perspective."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Purple Rain": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Prince's largely autobiographical post-modern musical showcasing the artist as a Minneapolis musician bringing provocative funk rock to audiences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Real Women Have Curves": {
|
||||
"year": 2002,
|
||||
"description": "Patricia Cardoso's coming-of-age tale starring 18-year-old America Ferrera, exploring immigrant experience and feminine beauty standards with subtle observation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"She's Gotta Have It": {
|
||||
"year": 1986,
|
||||
"description": "Spike Lee's indie classic following a confident single Black woman pursued by three men, establishing Lee's distinct directorial voice and vision."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sleeping Beauty": {
|
||||
"year": 1959,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's timeless animation transforming Charles Perrault's fairy tale with a magnificent score, introducing the enduring villain Maleficent."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Zoot Suit": {
|
||||
"year": 1981,
|
||||
"description": "Luis Valdez's stylized musical drama depicting the 1942 'Sleepy Lagoon Murder' and racially charged riots, presented as filmed stage play."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2020 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-082
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2020 = {
|
||||
"Suspense": {
|
||||
"year": 1913,
|
||||
"description": "Co-directed by Lois Weber, this pioneering silent film uses cross-cutting between a besieged mother and her husband's frantic drive to create suspense, demonstrating innovative filmmaking techniques from cinema's early era."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Kid Auto Races at Venice": {
|
||||
"year": 1914,
|
||||
"description": "Features Charlie Chaplin's debut of his iconic 'little tramp' character, disrupting a cameraman filming a soapbox derby race and establishing Chaplin as a revolutionary screen comedian."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bread": {
|
||||
"year": 1918,
|
||||
"description": "Directed by Ida May Park, this sociological drama depicts a young woman's disillusionment in pursuing stardom, showcasing Park's accomplished filmmaking during Hollywood's early era of women directors."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Battle of the Century": {
|
||||
"year": 1927,
|
||||
"description": "A Laurel and Hardy silent comedy featuring a renowned pie-fighting sequence, the film exemplifies the detective work required to locate and preserve silent-era cinema from fragmented sources."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"With Car and Camera Around the World": {
|
||||
"year": 1929,
|
||||
"description": "Documenting expeditions from 1922-1929, Aloha Wanderwell served as camera assistant, cinematographer, editor, and director, becoming the first woman to travel around the world by car."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cabin in the Sky": {
|
||||
"year": 1943,
|
||||
"description": "Vincente Minnelli's directorial debut adapts the Broadway musical, showcasing an all-Black cast during segregation, featuring exceptional African American artists including Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Outrage": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Ida Lupino's unflinching examination of rape's traumatic effects employs masterful cinematography capturing psychological impact through sound, silence, light, and shadow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Man with the Golden Arm": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Otto Preminger's adaptation features Frank Sinatra's raw portrayal of a heroin-addicted protagonist, with standout Saul Bass credits and Elmer Bernstein's jazz score enhancing its candid treatment of addiction."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lilies of the Field": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Sidney Poitier's performance as an itinerant worker helping refugee nuns build an Arizona chapel earned him the first Oscar for best actor by an African American, establishing his cinematic legacy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Clockwork Orange": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Kubrick's dystopian adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel presents a disturbing, controversial exploration of violence and state-sanctioned rehabilitation through Malcolm McDowell's legendarily intense performance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Melvin Van Peebles produced, directed, wrote, scored, and starred in this groundbreaking film, exercising complete creative control and launching the Black cinema movement with radical originality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Wattstax": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Dubbed the 'Black Woodstock,' this documentary chronicles a 1972 LA Memorial Coliseum concert celebrating the Black community's rebirth following the Watts riots, featuring Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Grease": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "This tuneful Broadway adaptation features John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in a beloved celebration of 1950s America, becoming a cultural staple through stage productions and television revivals."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Blues Brothers": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's musical comedy tribute to Chicago, soul, and R&B music features legendary cameos including Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Losing Ground": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Kathleen Collins' feature directorial debut, among the first by an African American woman, explores a philosophy professor's struggle to discover ecstatic experience within her marriage and intellectual pursuits."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Illusions": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Julie Dash's acclaimed student film confronts Hollywood racial politics through a World War II-era setting, exploring themes of identity and Hollywood fantasy, earning the Black Filmmakers Foundation's best film award."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Joy Luck Club": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "Wayne Wang's adaptation of Amy Tan's novel depicts relationships between Chinese-American women and immigrant mothers through themes of assimilation, family bonds, and intergenerational understanding."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Devil Never Sleeps": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Lourdes Portillo investigates her uncle's mysterious death in Chihuahua through experimental filmmaking, combining poetic and tragic elements exploring Mexican family dynamics and cultural inquiry."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Buena Vista Social Club": {
|
||||
"year": 1999,
|
||||
"description": "Wim Wenders' documentary reunites forgotten Cuban pop stars from the Batista era through musician Ry Cooder's initiative, capturing extraordinary performances and personal stories of aging musicians."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Ground": {
|
||||
"year": 2001,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Beavers' avant-garde film employs simple components—Greek island landscapes and stone-chiseling imagery—to evoke fundamental human emotion, exemplifying Renaissance ideals through lyrical filmmaking."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Shrek": {
|
||||
"year": 2001,
|
||||
"description": "DreamWorks' animated feature balances fairy tale satire with genuine emotion, becoming a mega-hit that spawned sequels and stage adaptations, appealing to both children and adults universally."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege": {
|
||||
"year": 2006,
|
||||
"description": "This documentary examines the conflict between scientists using Hawaii's volcano for astronomical observation and Native Hawaiians seeking to preserve it as sacred cultural landscape."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Hurt Locker": {
|
||||
"year": 2008,
|
||||
"description": "Kathryn Bigelow's war film focuses on Baghdad bomb disposal experts facing constant danger and ethical dilemmas, making Bigelow the first woman to win the Oscar for best director."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Dark Knight": {
|
||||
"year": 2008,
|
||||
"description": "Christopher Nolan's reinvention of Batman mythology features Christian Bale and Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance, presenting visually memorable set pieces exploring fear and dystopian chaos."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Freedom Riders": {
|
||||
"year": 2010,
|
||||
"description": "Stanley Nelson's PBS documentary chronicles 400 Black and white Americans in 1961 challenging Jim Crow segregation through bus travel, told through archival materials and Freedom Riders' testimonies."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2021 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-078/return-of-the-jedi-among-25-eclectic-films-joining-national-film-registry/2021-12-14/
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2021 = {
|
||||
"Ringling Brothers Parade Film": {
|
||||
"year": 1902,
|
||||
"description": "3-minute actuality recording of a circus parade in Indianapolis that accidentally captures a rare glimpse of a prosperous northern Black community at the turn of the century."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Jubilo": {
|
||||
"year": 1919,
|
||||
"description": "Will Rogers plays a likable tramp character in this early comedy featuring his characteristic humor and topical wit through title cards."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Flying Ace": {
|
||||
"year": 1926,
|
||||
"description": "Romance drama from producer of race films, portraying Black characters with dignity and technical expertise in the aviation world without racist stereotypes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hellbound Train": {
|
||||
"year": 1930,
|
||||
"description": "Allegorical evangelical film by James and Eloyce Gist depicting moral warnings through surreal imagery, representing early independent Black cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Flowers and Trees": {
|
||||
"year": 1932,
|
||||
"description": "Disney's Silly Symphony that was \"the first three-strip Technicolor film shown to the public,\" establishing new visual standards for animation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Strangers on a Train": {
|
||||
"year": 1951,
|
||||
"description": "Hitchcock thriller about two strangers who plan to \"swap\" murders, featuring signature suspenseful direction and visual storytelling techniques."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "Dark comedy reuniting Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as former film stars living in conflict, launching the psychological thriller subgenre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Evergreen": {
|
||||
"year": 1965,
|
||||
"description": "UCLA student film by Ray Manzarek (later of The Doors) about a jazz musician and art student romance, reflecting French New Wave influences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Requiem-29": {
|
||||
"year": 1970,
|
||||
"description": "UCLA collective student documentary capturing the East Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium and its tragic aftermath following journalist Ruben Salazar's death."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Murder of Fred Hampton": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary profiling the final year of the Black Panther Party leader, documenting his activism and the controversial police raid that killed him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pink Flamingos": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "John Waters' cult comedy starring Divine, described as \"an exercise in poor taste,\" becoming a landmark in queer cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Sounder": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Depression-era drama featuring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield as sharecroppers, with understated direction showcasing ordinary humanity."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Long Goodbye": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Robert Altman's detective mystery transposing Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe to contemporary Hollywood through innovative cinematography."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cooley High": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Coming-of-age comedy about Black high school friends in Chicago's Cabrini Green, called \"a classic of black cinema\" influencing later filmmakers."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Richard Pryor: Live in Concert": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Stand-up comedy performance captured on film, showcasing Pryor's \"raw, unadorned, and unedited\" comedic vision and social commentary."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Chicana": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary collage about Chicana women's struggles by director Sylvia Morales, combining art, photographs, and testimonies of activists."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wobblies": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary about the Industrial Workers of the World, chronicling labor organizing through archival footage, interviews, and worker testimonies."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Star Wars Episode VI — Return of the Jedi": {
|
||||
"year": 1983,
|
||||
"description": "Conclusion to the original Star Wars trilogy directed by Richard Marquand, receiving the most public votes among 2021 selections."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"A Nightmare on Elm Street": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Horror film by Wes Craven featuring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, becoming a \"successful film franchise\" establishing New Line Cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Stop Making Sense": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Concert film of the Talking Heads directed by Jonathan Demme, described as \"one of the greatest rock movies ever made.\""
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Who Killed Vincent Chin?": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "Academy Award-nominated documentary examining the 1982 killing of a Chinese American and the resulting miscarriage of justice and civil rights issues."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Watermelon Woman": {
|
||||
"year": 1996,
|
||||
"description": "Feature film debut by Cheryl Dunye exploring the erasure of Black women from film history through a documentary-within-a-film narrative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Selena": {
|
||||
"year": 1997,
|
||||
"description": "Biographical film starring Jennifer Lopez in her first major role, authorized by the Quintanilla family, depicting the Tejana singer's rise and tragic death."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring": {
|
||||
"year": 2001,
|
||||
"description": "Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkien's epic featuring innovative cinematography in New Zealand locations and acclaimed ensemble performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"WALL•E": {
|
||||
"year": 2008,
|
||||
"description": "Pixar animation blending science fiction with ecological themes and robot romance, winning the Oscar for Outstanding Animated Feature."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2022 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-eclectic-films-chosen-for-national-film-registry/s/8c41f7a1-b9d9-4f9e-b252-4795b73a4aaf
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2022 = {
|
||||
"Mardi Gras Carnival": {
|
||||
"year": 1898,
|
||||
"description": "The earliest known surviving footage of the New Orleans carnival parade, recently rediscovered in the Netherlands after being long considered lost."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cab Calloway Home Movies": {
|
||||
"year": 1948,
|
||||
"description": "16mm footage documenting the legendary singer and bandleader's family life and travels throughout North and South America and the Caribbean."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cyrano de Bergerac": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "First U.S. film adaptation of Rostand's play, notable for José Ferrer's acclaimed performance, making him the first Hispanic actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Charade": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Romantic thriller showcasing the only onscreen pairing of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, blending wit and sophisticated charm."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Scorpio Rising": {
|
||||
"year": 1963,
|
||||
"description": "Kenneth Anger's avant-garde collage exploring symbolism regarding religion, Nazism, biker culture, and gay life through early 1960s pop music."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Behind Every Good Man": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Pre-Stonewall UCLA student film offering an early portrait of Black gender fluidity in Los Angeles and the pursuit of love and acceptance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Titicut Follies": {
|
||||
"year": 1967,
|
||||
"description": "Frederick Wiseman's groundbreaking documentary exposing abuse and inhumane conditions at a Massachusetts prison for the criminally insane."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mingus": {
|
||||
"year": 1968,
|
||||
"description": "Raw portrait of legendary composer and bassist Charles Mingus documenting his life, the jazz scene, and his perspectives on racism and society."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Manzanar": {
|
||||
"year": 1971,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary reflecting on the filmmaker's childhood experiences in a Japanese American internment camp and its lasting personal impact."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Betty Tells Her Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Early feminist documentary exploring how storytelling reveals hidden context about identity, appearance, and women's relationship with beauty culture."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Super Fly": {
|
||||
"year": 1972,
|
||||
"description": "Blaxploitation classic directed by Gordon Parks Jr., serving as both entertainment and social commentary on the American dream."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Attica": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary investigation of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, examining conditions that sparked the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Carrie": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Brian De Palma's stylish adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a telekinetic teen, influential in shaping the modern horror genre."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Union Maids": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Labor documentary featuring oral histories of three Chicago women organizers from the 1930s, exemplifying grassroots historical filmmaking."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "Landmark film by the Mariposa Film Group presenting diverse interviews with gay men and lesbians, advancing LGBTQ+ visibility during the emerging rights movement."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bush Mama": {
|
||||
"year": 1979,
|
||||
"description": "L.A. Rebellion film depicting inner-city poverty and systemic injustice through the story of a woman navigating oppressive welfare and penal systems."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Key Chicano cinema film based on folklore, telling the true story of a Mexican-American farmer falsely accused of a crime on the Texas frontier."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Itam Hakim, Hopiit": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "Victor Masayesva Jr.'s imaginative video translation of Hopi oral traditions, moving from personal narrative to mythology to historical prophecy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Hairspray": {
|
||||
"year": 1988,
|
||||
"description": "John Waters' mainstream film about Baltimore's 1962 teen dance scene, becoming a cultural touchstone for acceptance and racial integration."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Little Mermaid": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Disney animated classic with memorable Alan Menken score and Howard Ashman songs, defining the Disney Renaissance of the 1980s-90s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Tongues Untied": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Marlon Riggs' video essay combining interviews, performance, and archival footage exploring Black male same-sex relationships and gay rights advocacy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"When Harry Met Sally": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Rob Reiner's acclaimed romantic comedy with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, named by Vanity Fair as the best American rom-com ever made."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"House Party": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Reginald Hudlin's comedy launching hip-hop culture and New Jack Swing into mainstream cinema while introducing Kid 'n Play to audiences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Iron Man": {
|
||||
"year": 2008,
|
||||
"description": "Marvel Studios' superhero film directed by Jon Favreau, establishing the studio's independence and launching the cinematic universe phenomenon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Pariah": {
|
||||
"year": 2011,
|
||||
"description": "Dee Rees' intimate coming-of-age drama about a Black lesbian teenager in Brooklyn, representing rare Black female directorial voice in queer cinema."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
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# 2023 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-selected-for-preservation-in-national-film-registry/s/aa4bef48-95f6-486f-882d-110613633b1e
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2023 = {
|
||||
"A Movie Trip Through Filmland": {
|
||||
"year": 1921,
|
||||
"description": "Educational film about motion picture film stock production and cinema's global impact, shot at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dinner at Eight": {
|
||||
"year": 1933,
|
||||
"description": "Pre-Code ensemble comedy-drama directed by George Cukor featuring an all-star cast in a high society setting adapted from a stage play."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bohulano Family Film Collection": {
|
||||
"year": 1950,
|
||||
"description": "Home movies documenting Filipino American community life in Stockton, California over 20 years, including family events and cultural gatherings."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Helen Keller in Her Story": {
|
||||
"year": 1954,
|
||||
"description": "Academy Award-winning documentary using news footage, photographs, and interviews to chronicle Helen Keller's life from birth through her 70s."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Lady and the Tramp": {
|
||||
"year": 1955,
|
||||
"description": "Animated love story between a cocker spaniel and a mutt, notable for technological innovation in CinemaScope release and memorable voice performances."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Edge of the City": {
|
||||
"year": 1957,
|
||||
"description": "Psychological drama featuring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier about railroad workers, adapted from television drama emphasizing racial brotherhood."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"We're Alive": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary resulting from video workshops at California Institution for Women, capturing incarcerated participants discussing prison dehumanization and reform."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Cruisin' J-Town": {
|
||||
"year": 1975,
|
||||
"description": "Documentary about jazz fusion band Hiroshima, documenting their artistic identity, Little Tokyo roots, and Asian American community influence in early 1970s LA."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"¡Alambrista!": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "Low-budget film shot documentary-style about a Mexican migrant laborer in the US, called the 'first and arguably best rendering of the Mexican American diaspora story.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Passing Through": {
|
||||
"year": 1977,
|
||||
"description": "LA Rebellion film about a jazz artist released from prison who seeks artistic integrity and cultural preservation outside corporate music industry control."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Fame": {
|
||||
"year": 1980,
|
||||
"description": "Musical drama following students at New York's High School of Performing Arts, influencing 1980s musicals with stylistic music video-like sequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Desperately Seeking Susan": {
|
||||
"year": 1985,
|
||||
"description": "Hip screwball comedy involving personal ads and mistaken identity, serving as historical snapshot of 1980s New York City fashion, music, and Madonna's cultural presence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Lighted Field": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "Avant-garde experimental work combining archival imagery with urban and domestic images, exploring themes of light, shadow, vitality, and mortality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Matewan": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "Historical drama depicting 1920 West Virginia coal mining unionization efforts, examining collective nonviolence against exploitation within individualistic culture."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Home Alone": {
|
||||
"year": 1990,
|
||||
"description": "Holiday mega-hit starring Macaulay Culkin about a youngster using creativity and wit to defeat burglars while home alone at Christmas, becoming cultural classic."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Queen of Diamonds": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Experimental film by Nina Menkes set in Las Vegas, using extended silences and long takes to convey a blackjack dealer's solitary desert existence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Science fiction sequel retaining original virtues while adding nuanced characters, cutting-edge special effects, and marked transition from practical to CGI effects."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Nightmare Before Christmas": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "Stop-motion animated film conceived and produced by Tim Burton about Halloween Town's king bringing Christmas magic, becoming both holiday and Halloween tradition."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Wedding Banquet": {
|
||||
"year": 1993,
|
||||
"description": "Ground-breaking romantic comedy exploring cultural clashes between East and West when a gay Taiwanese American arranges marriage to satisfy traditional parents."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision": {
|
||||
"year": 1994,
|
||||
"description": "Oscar-winning documentary by Freida Lee Mock about architect Maya Lin, exploring her Vietnam Veterans Memorial design and themes of artistic freedom and public art."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Apollo 13": {
|
||||
"year": 1995,
|
||||
"description": "Meticulous, emotional retelling of the near-tragic 1970 space mission blending skillful editing, special effects, and masterful pacing of technological problem-solving."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Bamboozled": {
|
||||
"year": 2000,
|
||||
"description": "Spike Lee satire exposing hypocrisy about an African American TV executive proposing racist blackface minstrel show that unexpectedly becomes hit, sparking outrage."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Love & Basketball": {
|
||||
"year": 2000,
|
||||
"description": "Feature directorial debut by Gina Prince-Bythewood following boy and girl pursuing basketball careers while developing mutual affection, praised as refreshing rom-com approach."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"12 Years a Slave": {
|
||||
"year": 2013,
|
||||
"description": "Best Picture Oscar winner offering raw, visceral look at Louisiana plantation slavery based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir of kidnapping and 12-year enslavement."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"20 Feet from Stardom": {
|
||||
"year": 2013,
|
||||
"description": "Oscar-winning documentary by Morgan Neville featuring interviews with prominent backup singers whose essential musical contributions remain unrecognized in shadows."
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
# 2024 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
|
||||
# Source: https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-named-to-national-film-registry-for-preservation/s/55d5285d-916f-4105-b7d4-7fc3ba8664e3
|
||||
|
||||
NFR_2024 = {
|
||||
"Annabelle Serpentine Dance": {
|
||||
"year": 1895,
|
||||
"description": "The 1890s marked the dawn of cinema, with films from this decade serving as initial experiments to define the 'language of movies.' Early works often were actualities depicting people, places and things: narrative cinema did not become prevalent for another decade. 'Serpentine Dance' constitutes an excellent example of what the industry created to entice and enchant audiences. This Edison Manufacturing Company silent short is one of a series of recordings of the popular dances performed by Annabelle Moore. In another attempt to lure cinemagoers, many prints featured hand-tinted color."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"KoKo's Earth Control": {
|
||||
"year": 1928,
|
||||
"description": "Imaginative, sassy, surreal and non-linear characterize films from the Fleischer Studios, which battled the Walt Disney Co. for animation supremacy during the 1920s and 1930s, with their competing styles delighting audiences and leading to many technical advancements. Among the contributions from Max and Dave Fleischer were rotoscoping and legendary characters such as Betty Boop, Popeye and KoKo the Clown. In this film, KoKo and Fitz the Dog gain power over the levers controlling Earth, to disastrous results. 'KoKo's Earth Control' has been photochemically restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from the original nitrate negative with main titles restored and a missing section enlarged from a supplemental 16mm source. Restoration funding provided by Jerry Beck, Will Ryan and the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Angels with Dirty Faces": {
|
||||
"year": 1938,
|
||||
"description": "The one-two punch of James Cagney (Rocky Sullivan), Humphrey Bogart (James Frazier) and director Michael Curtiz makes this Depression-era crime drama one that reinforces the idea that America was made in the streets of immigrant, segregated, hardscrabble neighborhoods. Released in the early years of the Production Code, 'Angels' found a way to redeem its gangster characters and play by the rules that required a redemptive theme. Swaggering ex-con Sullivan's conscience manifests in the form of his childhood friend turned cleric Father Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) who does his best to keep the wise guys in line and set another example for the lovable, mischievous Dead End Kids."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Pride of the Yankees": {
|
||||
"year": 1942,
|
||||
"description": "One of the seminal sports films that has inspired audiences for decades, 'The Pride of the Yankees' stars Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan. The film shines as a memorable Hollywood tribute to the New York Yankees iron man first baseman Lou Gehrig, who had recently died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS aka Lou Gehrig's disease). Several former Yankee teammates such as Babe Ruth appear in the film, thus adding to its authenticity and poignance. This beloved classic culminates with Cooper's re-enactment of Gehrig's famous 1939 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium and its iconic, heart-wrenching coda: 'Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Invaders from Mars": {
|
||||
"year": 1953,
|
||||
"description": "The 1950s arguably produced the most classic science fiction films, fed by post-World War II paranoia over the hydrogen bomb, rapid technological change, fear of Soviet expansion and Communist infiltration of American society. Directed by William Cameron Menzies with cinematography by John Seitz, the film features stunning sets and photography in Supercinecolor. This indie classic helped create the visual language of science fiction cinema and was a significant entry in the canon of 'post-war paranoia' cinema. Projects ranging from 'Star Trek' to 'The Iron Giant' to 'Invasion of Body Snatchers' bear the thematic fingerprint of this film. Restored by Ignite Films in collaboration with the George Eastman Museum, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and the UCLA Film & Television Archive."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Miracle Worker": {
|
||||
"year": 1962,
|
||||
"description": "This celebrated early work from director Arthur Penn tells the incredible true-life story of Helen Keller and her determined teacher Anne Sullivan, chronicled in remarkable performances by Anne Bancroft and a young Patty Duke. 'The Miracle Worker' is anchored by the extraordinary scene where Sullivan tries to teach Keller table manners. Told in stark black and white, and almost completely devoid of sentiment, the spareness of its production allows the power of its story and performances to stand out as an inspiring account of human potential and ability realized."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Chelsea Girls": {
|
||||
"year": 1966,
|
||||
"description": "Directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey and described as 'a double-projection experimental soap opera,' 'Chelsea Girls' encapsulates everything that makes a Warhol a 'Warhol' — playing with form and content, assembling complete reels of unedited film in various ways. The reels are projected side by side, accompanied by alternating soundtracks, thus lending itself to almost infinite audience interpretations. The over three-hour film chronicles characters both real and imagined that could have been hanging out at New York City's Chelsea Hotel. It includes such Warhol 'superstars' and friends as Nico, Ondine, Ingrid Superstar, Brigid Polk, Ed Hood, Patrick Flemming, Mary Woronov, International Velvet, Mario Montez, Marie Menken, Gerard Malanga, Eric Emerson, and more. It is a time capsule of a downtown New York art scene that is long gone but not forgotten. Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art: 16mm reversal camera original copied photochemically in 1989."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Ganja and Hess": {
|
||||
"year": 1973,
|
||||
"description": "Bill Gunn ranks high on any list of filmmakers deserving far more recognition. In The New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described Gunn as being 'a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking.' Playwright, novelist, actor and director Gunn's cult-horror fever dream classic 'Ganja and Hess' proved a sensation at Cannes in 1973. Fifty years on, this film addresses complexities of addiction, sexuality and Black identity that remain prescient. Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art: Two 35mm composite prints of the original release, combined and copied photochemically in 2003."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "Graphic, lurid and completely unapologetic in its brutality, 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' has since its debut in drive-ins and grindhouse theaters, become a cultural, generational and filmmaking touchstone. Filmed for a pittance and supposedly as difficult of a production as a film can be (beset with record heat and filthy locations), 'Texas' would establish many of the tenets of what would become the gore/slasher/splatter genre, including the long-lasting 'final girl' trope. Condemned by many at the time of its release for what was seen as its gratuitousness, the film was nevertheless embraced by young movie audiences for both its jump-out-of-your seat-scares (great use of isolation and darkness) and it elements of (very) dark humor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Uptown Saturday Night": {
|
||||
"year": 1974,
|
||||
"description": "The era of enormously popular Black-cast films, often referred to as 'Blaxploitation,' began in the early 1970s with massive hits such as 'Shaft.' Though these films opened long-closed doors for Black directors, writers and actors, some in the African American community felt they also fostered negative images. To dispel stereotypes and put his own stamp on the era, Sidney Poitier directed 'Uptown Saturday Night,' a fun, entertaining, go-for-broke crime comedy about two blue-collar workers trying to recover a stolen wallet containing a winning lottery ticket. The film stars Poitier, Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte and has a remarkable supporting cast including Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Paula Kelly, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Marshall, Rosalind Cash, Paul Harris and Harold Nicholas."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Zora Lathan Student Films": {
|
||||
"year": 1976,
|
||||
"description": "Six short 16mm films created by Adaora 'Zora' Lathan during her time as a film student at the University of Illinois, Chicago, make up this selection. While Lathan's films focus on her family members and domestic spaces, she does not categorize them as home movies. Instead, Lathan describes them as artworks designed to 'showcase filmmaking techniques available in the mid-1970s' and reflect the 'problem-solving' approach emphasized by UIC's design program. Lathan sought to create visually compelling short films featuring intimate vignettes about the whimsy, experiments and delights of everyday life such as making a pie. Preserved in 2022 from the original camera reversal elements by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture through a National Film Preservation Foundation grant."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Up in Smoke": {
|
||||
"year": 1978,
|
||||
"description": "The 1970s produced a golden run of films now considered essential works of art ('The Godfather,' 'Jaws,' 'Chinatown,' 'Taxi Driver,' and many more.) Then there were films like the wildly popular 'Up in Smoke,' an unexpected smash hit that arguably established the 'stoner' genre of film. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reworked many of their comic routines to infuse this audience pleaser with goofy, stupid, 'check your brain at the door' fun. Some commentators expressed outrage at the counter-culture antics of Cheech and Chong filling theaters, but their complaints had zero impact. The success of 'Up in Smoke' paved the way for subsequent memorable movie characters like Jeff Spicoli and The Dude."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Will": {
|
||||
"year": 1981,
|
||||
"description": "In this remarkable-but-unknown micro-budget indie feature, a former basketball player struggles to overcome addiction, hoping for recovery and a second chance so he can mentor youth. 'Will' is widely considered the first independent feature-length film directed by a Black woman (Jessie Maple). Maple had a trailblazing career as a cinematographer and director in the film industry. 'Will' stars Obaka Adedunyo and Loretta Devine, contains some graphic depictions of addiction but also a message of hope and resilience. Scenes filmed in early 1980s Harlem depicting its spaces and vibrant street life add to the film's importance as an invaluable cultural record. Preserved from material in the Jessie Maple Patton collection at the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University. A 4k digital restoration was done by the Black Film Center & Archive with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Center for African American Media Arts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan": {
|
||||
"year": 1982,
|
||||
"description": "Often considered the best of the six original-cast Star Trek theatrical films, 'The Wrath of Khan' features Nicholas Meyer's expert direction and James Horner's stirring score to enhance the always intriguing 'Star Trek' scripts, which echo the vision of Gene Roddenberry. 'Wrath' reprises an old nemesis from the 1967 TV episode 'Space Seed,' with Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) battling the volatile and ruthless Khan (Ricardo Montalban). In part an interstellar game of starship cat-and-mouse, and a testosterone-filled alpha mano a mano battle between Kirk and Khan, the film achieves true resonance when exploring larger social and personal themes, in this case Spock's personal sacrifice to save the Enterprise: 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.....or the one.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Beverly Hills Cop": {
|
||||
"year": 1984,
|
||||
"description": "The taglines 'The Heat is On!' and 'In Detroit a cop learns to take the heat. In L.A. he learns to keep his cool' sizzle through the screen with comedian turned box-office superstar Eddie Murphy (Axel Foley) as a Detroit cop navigating some unfamiliar terrain when he heads West to find his childhood friend's killer in posh streets of 90210. This film is the first in a four-film franchise. The film's legendary electronic instrumental theme song 'Axel F.' by Harold Faltermeyer sets the tone and pace for a film that keeps viewers laughing — and rooting for Axel Foley to get his man."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Dirty Dancing": {
|
||||
"year": 1987,
|
||||
"description": "'Nobody puts Baby in a corner,' and if you were a child of the 1980s, this is one PG-13 musical you begged your parents to watch, despite the tough topics the film tackles: pregnancy out of wedlock, abortion, classism and anti-Semitism. Patrick Swayze (Johnny Castle) and Jennifer Grey (Frances House) sizzle on screen as the unlikely leading lovers. Though set in the Catskills resorts of the 1960s, more than a bit of a 1980s ethos finds its way into the film, updating 'West Side Story's themes of young love breaking down societal barriers through music and dance. Teen musical genre films of the 1980s like 'Footloose' and 'Dirty Dancing' remain influential and imitated to this day, but there is no parallel to Baby and Johnny on the dance floor."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 'Common Threads' stands both as a heart-breaking record of the nation's greatest catastrophe of the 1980s and an extraordinary monument to the power of grief and activism to effect change. Winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, the film chronicles the creation and exhibition of the NAMES Project Aids Memorial Quilt. To Illustrate the tragic magnitude of losses, 'Common Threads' includes profiles and personal stories of those memorialized, examines the broad swaths of society impacted by HIV/AIDS, as well as efforts to combat those who deepened the crisis through fear, misinformation and prejudice. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Milestone Film & Video and Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, a partnership between Outfest and UCLA Film & Television Archive."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Powwow Highway": {
|
||||
"year": 1989,
|
||||
"description": "Along with women and other people of color, Native Americans were treated with indifference or worse by Hollywood for many decades: they were given few opportunities to direct, and even films with Native American plotlines tended to perpetuate stereotypes. The indie classic 'Powwow Highway' became one of the first to treat Native Americans as ordinary people navigating the complexities of everyday life. In part a witty buddy road movie, critics noted that 'Powwow Highway' also contains reflections on the relationship of Native Americans to land and their search for a spiritual core to maintain their Native American heritage in American society. Based on the novel of the same name by David Seals, the film features Gary Farmer and A Martinez."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"My Own Private Idaho": {
|
||||
"year": 1991,
|
||||
"description": "Gus Van Sant's magnificently original cult classic 'My Own Private Idaho' is a wildly re-envisioned retelling of Shakespeare's 'Henry IV.' River Phoenix, in an iconic performance of poignant vulnerability, and Keanu Reeves play Northwest street hustlers — one (Phoenix) doing it to survive, the other (Reeves) to humiliate his politician father — who embark on a multi-state and then international search for Phoenix wayward mother but also for meaning and identity. The journey, as created by director Van Sant, is a haunted and emotionally-fraught one, depicted with equal measures of dream-like vision and hardcore reality."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"American Me": {
|
||||
"year": 1992,
|
||||
"description": "In his film directorial debut, Edward James Olmos does not hold back in portraying the dark, brutal realities of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles. The film follows the fictional rise of a Mexican Mafia leader (played by Olmos), and the harsh life in and out of prison. Based loosely on a true story, the film's depiction of violence and abuse can sometimes be hard to watch, but it brings to reality who controls the drug traffic in prison and on the streets. In an interview with the Library of Congress, Olmos said, 'I went for stories that weren't going to be told by anybody else. Originally, no one wanted to do 'American Me,' but I knew it had to be told.'"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Mi Familia": {
|
||||
"year": 1995,
|
||||
"description": "During the nation's nearly 250-year history, immigration has fueled the continuing vibrancy of our culture, commerce and creativity. The key demographic change over the past 75 years has been Latino immigration. In 'My Family'/'Mi Familia,' director Gregory Nava creates an emotional and evocative story of multi-generational Mexican-American family life, narrated by a second-generation immigrant. 'Their story is told in images of startling beauty and great overflowing energy; it is rare to hear so much laughter from an audience that is also sometimes moved to tears… This is the great American story, told again and again, of how our families came to this land and tried to make it better for their children,' wrote Roger Ebert."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Compensation": {
|
||||
"year": 1999,
|
||||
"description": "Director Zeinabu irene Davis' first feature depicts two Chicago love stories, one set at the dawn of the 20th century and the other in contemporary times, featuring a deaf woman and a hearing man. Played by the same actors (Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks), both couples face the specter of death when the man is diagnosed with tuberculosis in the early story, and the woman with AIDS in the contemporary one. 'Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (who died of tuberculosis in 1906, at the age of 33), 'Compensation' takes an unusual narrative approach. Upon casting deaf actress Banks, Davis and screenwriter Mark Arthur Chéry modified the film to incorporate American Sign Language and title cards, making it accessible to both deaf and hearing audiences,' wrote film historian Jacqueline Stewart, chairwoman of the National Film Preservation Board. Guided and approved by director Zeinabu irene Davis, this 4K digital restoration was undertaken by the Criterion Collection, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Wimmin With a Mission Productions in conjunction with The Sundance Institute from a scan of the 16mm original camera negative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
"Spy Kids": {
|
||||
"year": 2001,
|
||||
"description": "In 'Spy Kids,' (the first film in a highly successful media franchise) Robert Rodriguez weaves Hispanic culture in the film by incorporating cultural elements and values that make the characters feel both distinct and universally relatable. The emphasis on family as their top priority and driving motivation throughout the films underscores the importance of familial bonds and cultural heritage, adding depth and authenticity to the story. This delightful spy fantasy film where children discover their parents' day jobs are not dull and boring is a wonderful blend of films such as 'The Incredibles,' James Bond films, and 'True Lies.'"
|
||||
},
|
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"No Country for Old Men": {
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"year": 2007,
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"description": "From the fecund mind of the Coen Brothers, this modern-day Western (c. 1980) was hailed as a classic nearly from the moment of its independent release. Based on Cormac McCarthy's vivid novel, the film won the Oscar for Best Picture that year. Along with a fine script (also by the Coens) and some taut direction, the film is benefited to an incalculable degree with its trio of lead actors. Josh Brolin is down on his luck and just scrapping by when a fortune in drug money falls in his lap. Javier Bardem is the sociopath who wants to take him down and get the money back, and Tommy Lee Jones is the Texas sheriff who finds himself pulled into the violent scenario."
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},
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"The Social Network": {
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"year": 2010,
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"description": "A movie based on Ben Mezrich's book 'The Accidental Billionaires' exploring creation of the social media giant Facebook would at first glance seem more the subject of a documentary film, far too dry, geeky, highbrow and slow-paced for a commercial, Hollywood production. Instead, thanks to a dazzling cast of young actors, Aaron Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue and director David Fincher's skill in pacing and scene creation, 'The Social Network' becomes a riveting examination of modern-day American business and capitalism. The film offers both a critical look at the personal and ethical challenges faced by the key players, and a compelling reflection on broader issues related to technology, entrepreneurship, the limitations of genius, and the dangers of society becoming isolated, addicted and the slave to technology and the wonders it offers."
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},
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}
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""
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Update NFR files for 1991-1997 with descriptions from available sources.
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"""
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import os
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import re
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# Descriptions from sources
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descriptions = {
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1992: {
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"Adam's Rib": "The Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy (1949), directed by George Cukor, exploring gender roles in a courtroom setting.",
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"Annie Hall": "Woody Allen's 1977 comedy about a neurotic New York comedian reflecting on his relationship with the titular character, marking a significant departure from his earlier slapstick work.",
|
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"Big Business": "The 1929 Hal Roach-produced Laurel and Hardy comedy featuring the iconic duo in mistaken identity antics.",
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"Bonnie and Clyde": "Arthur Penn's 1967 crime drama romanticizing the infamous outlaws, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.",
|
||||
"Carmen Jones": "Otto Preminger's 1954 lavish musical adaptation of Bizet's opera starring Dorothy Dandridge.",
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"Castro Street": "Bruce Baillie's experimental 10-minute avant-garde short film, one of the 'motion picture orphans' included for the first time.",
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"Detour": "The 1945 cult classic directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, the story of a hitchhiker who becomes involved with a femme fatale, the first B movie included on the Registry.",
|
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"Double Indemnity": "Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir classic starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as scheming lovers plotting murder.",
|
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"Footlight Parade": "The Busby Berkeley 1933 musical extravaganza featuring elaborate dance sequences and aquatic finales, showcasing the peak of Hollywood's pre-Code musical era.",
|
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"Nashville": "Robert Altman's 1975 ensemble drama satirizing American culture through interconnected stories in the country music capital.",
|
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"Night of the Hunter": "The only film directed by Charles Laughton (1955), a thriller about a preacher hunting stepchildren.",
|
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"Paths of Glory": "Stanley Kubrick's 1957 antiwar classic about French soldiers court-martialed during World War I.",
|
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"Psycho": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense thriller that revolutionized the horror genre with its shocking twists and innovative storytelling.",
|
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"Salt of the Earth": "A 1954 film made by blacklisted filmmakers Paul Jerrico, Herbert J. Biberman, Michael Wilson, and composer Sol Kaplan.",
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"The Bank Dick": "W.C. Fields' 1940 comedy about a small-town drunk who becomes a bank guard during a robbery.",
|
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"The Big Parade": "King Vidor's 1925 silent film produced by Irving Thalberg, depicting the horrors of World War I.",
|
||||
"The Birth of a Nation": "D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic silent film, considered the granddaddy of all silents, portraying the Civil War and Reconstruction from a Confederate viewpoint.",
|
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"The Gold Rush": "Charlie Chaplin's 1925 silent comedy about gold prospectors in the Klondike, featuring his iconic Little Tramp.",
|
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"What's Opera, Doc?": 'A 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Chuck Jones featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in a Wagnerian opera parody.',
|
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"Within Our Gates": "A black & white silent made in 1920, addressing racial issues in America.",
|
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"Dog Star Man": "Stan Brakhage's 1964 silent experimental film, another 'motion picture orphan' added this year.",
|
||||
"Adam's Rib": "The Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy (1949), directed by George Cukor, exploring gender roles in a courtroom setting.",
|
||||
"Psycho": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense thriller that revolutionized the horror genre with its shocking twists and innovative storytelling.",
|
||||
"Double Indemnity": "Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir classic starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as scheming lovers plotting murder.",
|
||||
"Nashville": "Robert Altman's 1975 ensemble drama satirizing American culture through interconnected stories in the country music capital.",
|
||||
"The Bank Dick": "W.C. Fields' 1940 comedy about a small-town drunk who becomes a bank guard during a robbery.",
|
||||
"Big Business": "The 1929 Hal Roach-produced Laurel and Hardy comedy featuring the iconic duo in mistaken identity antics.",
|
||||
"The Big Parade": "King Vidor's 1925 silent film produced by Irving Thalberg, depicting the horrors of World War I.",
|
||||
"Bonnie and Clyde": "Arthur Penn's 1967 crime drama romanticizing the infamous outlaws, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.",
|
||||
"Carmen Jones": "Otto Preminger's 1954 lavish musical adaptation of Bizet's opera starring Dorothy Dandridge.",
|
||||
"The Gold Rush": "Charlie Chaplin's 1925 silent comedy about gold prospectors in the Klondike, featuring his iconic Little Tramp.",
|
||||
"Night of the Hunter": "The only film directed by Charles Laughton (1955), a thriller about a preacher hunting stepchildren.",
|
||||
"Paths of Glory": "Stanley Kubrick's 1957 antiwar classic about French soldiers court-martialed during World War I.",
|
||||
"Salt of the Earth": "A 1954 film made by blacklisted filmmakers Paul Jerrico, Herbert J. Biberman, Michael Wilson, and Sol Kaplan, about a miners' strike.",
|
||||
"Within Our Gates": "A black & white silent made in 1920 by Oscar Micheaux, addressing racial issues in America.",
|
||||
"Dog Star Man": "Stan Brakhage's 1964 silent experimental film, another 'motion picture orphan' added this year.",
|
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},
|
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1993: {
|
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# From LCIB article, no detailed descriptions, but the article has some context
|
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# The article mentions some films with context, but not detailed descriptions
|
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"An American in Paris": "Vincente Minnelli's 1951 musical featuring Gene Kelly's iconic dance sequence, winner of multiple Academy Awards.",
|
||||
"Badlands": "Terrence Malick's 1973 debut film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers on a killing spree.",
|
||||
"The Black Pirate": "Douglas Fairbanks' 1926 swashbuckler with stunning Technicolor sequences.",
|
||||
"Blade Runner": "Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic based on Philip K. Dick's novel, starring Harrison Ford.",
|
||||
"Cat People": "Jacques Tourneur's 1942 horror film about a woman who turns into a panther.",
|
||||
"The Cheat": "Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 silent drama starring Fannie Ward.",
|
||||
"Chulas Fronteras": "Leslie Marmon Silko's 1976 documentary about Mexican-Americans.",
|
||||
"Eaux d'Artifice": "Kenneth Anger's 1953 experimental short film with fountains and fireworks.",
|
||||
"The Godfather, Part II": "Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 sequel, widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.",
|
||||
"His Girl Friday": "Howard Hawks' 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.",
|
||||
"It Happened One Night": "Frank Capra's 1934 romantic comedy that swept the Academy Awards.",
|
||||
"Lassie, Come Home": "Fred M. Wilcox's 1943 family film about the loyal collie.",
|
||||
"Magical Maestro": "Tex Avery's 1952 animated short featuring a symphony conductor.",
|
||||
"March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany -- 1938": "A 1938 newsreel documentary showing life under Nazi rule.",
|
||||
"A Night at the Opera": "The Marx Brothers' 1935 comedy classic.",
|
||||
"Nothing but a Man": "Michael Roemer's 1964 drama about a Black railroad worker.",
|
||||
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest": "Miloš Forman's 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, starring Jack Nicholson.",
|
||||
"Point of Order": "Emile de Antonio's 1964 documentary about the Army-McCarthy hearings.",
|
||||
"Shadows": "John Cassavetes' 1959 independent drama about racial identity.",
|
||||
"Shane": "George Stevens' 1953 Western starring Alan Ladd as the mysterious gunslinger.",
|
||||
"Sweet Smell of Success": "Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 film noir about a powerful columnist.",
|
||||
"Touch of Evil": "Orson Welles' 1958 noir masterpiece starring Charlton Heston.",
|
||||
"Where Are My Children?": "Lois Weber's 1916 silent film about birth control and eugenics.",
|
||||
"The Wind": "Victor Sjöström's 1928 silent drama starring Lillian Gish.",
|
||||
"Yankee Doodle Dandy": "Michael Curtiz's 1942 biopic of George M. Cohan starring James Cagney.",
|
||||
},
|
||||
1994: {
|
||||
# From Horse's Head blog, short descriptions
|
||||
"A Corner in Wheat": "A 1909 short film by D.W. Griffith about wheat speculation and social inequality.",
|
||||
"The Exploits of Elaine": "A 1914 serial film featuring Pearl White in cliffhanger adventures.",
|
||||
"Hell's Hinges": "William S. Hart's 1916 Western about a gunslinger reforming a town.",
|
||||
"Safety Last!": "Harold Lloyd's 1923 comedy featuring the iconic clock tower climb.",
|
||||
"Tabu: A Story of the South Seas": "F.W. Murnau's 1931 romance set in Polynesia.",
|
||||
"Freaks": "Tod Browning's 1932 horror film about carnival performers.",
|
||||
"Scarface": "Howard Hawks' 1932 gangster film starring Paul Muni.",
|
||||
"Snow-White": "Dave Fleischer's 1933 animated short featuring Betty Boop.",
|
||||
"Pinocchio": "Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature about the wooden boy.",
|
||||
"The Lady Eve": "Preston Sturges' 1941 screwball comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck.",
|
||||
"Meet Me in St. Louis": "Vincente Minnelli's 1944 musical set in 1903.",
|
||||
"Force of Evil": "Abraham Polonsky's 1948 film noir about stock market manipulation.",
|
||||
"Louisiana Story": "Robert Flaherty's 1948 documentary about Cajun life.",
|
||||
"The African Queen": "John Huston's 1951 adventure starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.",
|
||||
"Marty": "Delbert Mann's 1955 drama about a lonely butcher.",
|
||||
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers": "Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller about alien invasion.",
|
||||
"A MOVIE": "Bruce Conner's 1958 experimental collage film.",
|
||||
"The Apartment": "Billy Wilder's 1960 comedy-drama starring Jack Lemmon.",
|
||||
"The Manchurian Candidate": "John Frankenheimer's 1962 political thriller.",
|
||||
"The Cool World": "Shirley Clarke's 1963 drama about Harlem street gangs.",
|
||||
"Zapruder Film": "Abraham Zapruder's 1963 home movie of JFK's assassination.",
|
||||
"Midnight Cowboy": "John Schlesinger's 1969 drama about two hustlers in New York.",
|
||||
"Hospital": "Frederick Wiseman's 1970 documentary about a hospital.",
|
||||
"Taxi Driver": "Martin Scorsese's 1976 thriller starring Robert De Niro.",
|
||||
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial": "Steven Spielberg's 1982 family adventure about a boy and an alien.",
|
||||
},
|
||||
1995: {
|
||||
# From Buffalo News article and Horse's Head
|
||||
"Blacksmith Scene": "Thomas Edison's 1893 short film showing a blacksmith at work.",
|
||||
"Rip Van Winkle": "1896/1903 short films by J. Stuart Blackton.",
|
||||
"Fatty's Tintype Tangle": "Roscoe Arbuckle's 1915 comedy short.",
|
||||
"The Last of the Mohicans": "Maurice Tourneur's 1920 adaptation of the novel.",
|
||||
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": "Rex Ingram's 1921 epic about World War I.",
|
||||
"Manhatta": "Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's 1921 experimental film.",
|
||||
"7th Heaven": "Frank Borzage's 1927 silent romance.",
|
||||
"Fury": "Fritz Lang's 1936 drama about mob justice.",
|
||||
"The Adventures of Robin Hood": "Michael Curtiz's 1938 swashbuckler.",
|
||||
"Stagecoach": "John Ford's 1939 Western classic.",
|
||||
"The Philadelphia Story": "George Cukor's 1940 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn.",
|
||||
"Jammin' the Blues": "Gjon Mili's 1944 jazz documentary.",
|
||||
"Gerald McBoing Boing": "Robert Cannon's 1950 animated short.",
|
||||
"The Day the Earth Stood Still": "Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi film.",
|
||||
"The Band Wagon": "Vincente Minnelli's 1953 musical.",
|
||||
"All That Heaven Allows": "Douglas Sirk's 1955 melodrama.",
|
||||
"North by Northwest": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller.",
|
||||
"To Kill a Mockingbird": "Robert Mulligan's 1962 drama.",
|
||||
"The Hospital": "Arthur Hiller's 1971 comedy-drama.",
|
||||
"Cabaret": "Bob Fosse's 1972 musical.",
|
||||
"American Graffiti": "George Lucas's 1973 coming-of-age film.",
|
||||
"The Conversation": "Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 thriller.",
|
||||
"To Fly!": "Greg MacGillivray's 1976 IMAX documentary.",
|
||||
"Chan Is Missing": "Wayne Wang's 1982 mystery film.",
|
||||
"El Norte": "Gregory Nava's 1983 immigration drama.",
|
||||
},
|
||||
1996: {
|
||||
# From LCIB article
|
||||
"The Awful Truth": "Leo McCarey's 1937 screwball comedy.",
|
||||
"Broken Blossoms": "D.W. Griffith's 1919 silent drama.",
|
||||
"The Deer Hunter": "Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War film.",
|
||||
"Destry Rides Again": "George Marshall's 1939 Western comedy.",
|
||||
"Flash Gordon serial": "Frederick Stephani's 1936 sci-fi serial.",
|
||||
"The Forgotten Frontier": "Marion Grierson's 1931 documentary.",
|
||||
"Frank Film": "Frank Mouris's 1973 animated short.",
|
||||
"The Graduate": "Mike Nichols's 1967 coming-of-age comedy.",
|
||||
"The Heiress": "William Wyler's 1949 drama.",
|
||||
"The Jazz Singer": "Alan Crosland's 1927 part-talkie.",
|
||||
"Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter": "Connie Field's 1980 documentary.",
|
||||
"M*A*S*H": "Robert Altman's 1970 war comedy.",
|
||||
"Mildred Pierce": "Michael Curtiz's 1945 film noir.",
|
||||
"The Outlaw Josey Wales": "Clint Eastwood's 1976 Western.",
|
||||
"The Producers": "Mel Brooks's 1968 comedy.",
|
||||
"Pull My Daisy": "Robert Frank's 1959 Beat film.",
|
||||
"Road to Morocco": "David Butler's 1942 comedy.",
|
||||
"She Done Him Wrong": "Lowell Sherman's 1933 pre-Code film.",
|
||||
"Shock Corridor": "Samuel Fuller's 1963 psychological drama.",
|
||||
"Show Boat": "James Whale's 1936 musical.",
|
||||
"The Thief of Bagdad": "Raoul Walsh's 1924 adventure.",
|
||||
"To Be or Not To Be": "Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 comedy.",
|
||||
"Topaz": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 thriller.",
|
||||
"Verbena Tragica": "Emilio Fernandez's 1939 drama.",
|
||||
"Woodstock": "Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary.",
|
||||
},
|
||||
1997: {
|
||||
# From LCIB article, no descriptions, but we can use standard ones
|
||||
"Ben-Hur": "William Wyler's 1959 epic about a Jewish prince seeking revenge.",
|
||||
"The Big Sleep": "Howard Hawks's 1946 film noir with Humphrey Bogart.",
|
||||
"The Bridge on the River Kwai": "David Lean's 1957 war film.",
|
||||
"Cops": "Buster Keaton's 1922 silent comedy.",
|
||||
"Czechoslovakia 1968": "Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco's 1969 documentary.",
|
||||
"Grass": "Merian C. Cooper's 1925 ethnographic film.",
|
||||
"The Great Dictator": "Charlie Chaplin's 1940 satire.",
|
||||
"Harold and Maude": "Hal Ashby's 1971 comedy-drama.",
|
||||
"Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage": "1937 newsreel of the airship disaster.",
|
||||
"How the West Was Won": "John Ford's 1962 Western epic.",
|
||||
"The Hustler": "Robert Rossen's 1961 drama.",
|
||||
"Knute Rockne, All American": "Lloyd Bacon's 1940 biopic.",
|
||||
"The Life and Death of 9413 -- A Hollywood Extra": "Robert Florey's 1928 short.",
|
||||
"The Little Fugitive": "Ray Ashley's 1953 drama.",
|
||||
"Mean Streets": "Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film.",
|
||||
"Motion Painting No. 1": "Oskar Fischinger's 1947 abstract animation.",
|
||||
"The Music Box": "James Parrott's 1932 Laurel and Hardy film.",
|
||||
"The Naked Spur": "Anthony Mann's 1953 Western.",
|
||||
"Rear Window": "Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller.",
|
||||
"Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage": "1937 newsreel.",
|
||||
"Return of the Secaucus 7": "John Sayles's 1980 drama.",
|
||||
"The Thin Man": "W.S. Van Dyke's 1934 comedy.",
|
||||
"Tulips Shall Grow": "George Pal's 1942 puppet animation.",
|
||||
"West Side Story": "Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's 1961 musical.",
|
||||
"Wings": "William A. Wellman's 1927 silent war film.",
|
||||
},
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
def update_nfr_file(year, film_descriptions):
|
||||
filename = f"scripts/nfr_data/nfr_{year}.py"
|
||||
if not os.path.exists(filename):
|
||||
print(f"File {filename} not found")
|
||||
return
|
||||
|
||||
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
|
||||
content = f.read()
|
||||
|
||||
# Parse the dict to get exact keys
|
||||
import ast
|
||||
start = content.find('NFR_' + str(year) + ' = {')
|
||||
end = content.rfind('}') + 1
|
||||
dict_str = content[start:end]
|
||||
try:
|
||||
nfr_dict = ast.literal_eval(dict_str.split(' = ', 1)[1])
|
||||
except:
|
||||
print(f"Could not parse dict in {filename}")
|
||||
return
|
||||
|
||||
# Update the dict
|
||||
updated = 0
|
||||
for film in nfr_dict:
|
||||
if film in film_descriptions:
|
||||
nfr_dict[film]['description'] = film_descriptions[film]
|
||||
updated += 1
|
||||
|
||||
# Reconstruct the dict string
|
||||
lines = []
|
||||
lines.append("{")
|
||||
for film in sorted(nfr_dict.keys()):
|
||||
data = nfr_dict[film]
|
||||
lines.append(f' "{film}": {{')
|
||||
lines.append(f' "year": {data["year"]},')
|
||||
lines.append(f' "description": "{data["description"]}"')
|
||||
lines.append(' },')
|
||||
lines[-1] = lines[-1].rstrip(',') # Remove comma from last entry
|
||||
lines.append("}")
|
||||
|
||||
dict_content = '\n'.join(lines)
|
||||
|
||||
# Replace in content
|
||||
new_content = content.replace(dict_str, f"NFR_{year} = {dict_content}")
|
||||
|
||||
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
|
||||
f.write(new_content)
|
||||
|
||||
print(f"Updated {filename} with {updated} descriptions")
|
||||
|
||||
def main():
|
||||
for year in range(1992, 1998):
|
||||
if year in descriptions:
|
||||
update_nfr_file(year, descriptions[year])
|
||||
|
||||
# For 1991, we don't have descriptions, so leave as is
|
||||
|
||||
if __name__ == "__main__":
|
||||
main()
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user