# 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." }, }