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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."
},
}