# 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."
    },
}