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106 lines
5.4 KiB
Python
# 2006 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-06-234/films-added-to-national-film-registry-for-2006/2006-12-27/
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NFR_2006 = {
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"Applause": {
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"year": 1929,
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"description": "This early sound-era masterpiece was the first film of both stage/director Rouben Mamoulian and cabaret/star Helen Morgan."
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},
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"The Big Trail": {
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"year": 1930,
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"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."
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},
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"Blazing Saddles": {
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"year": 1974,
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"description": "This riotously funny, raunchy, no-holds-barred Western spoof by Mel Brooks is universally considered one of the 25 funniest American films."
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},
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"The Curse of Quon Gwon": {
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"year": 1916,
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"description": "The earliest known Chinese-American feature and one of the first films directed by a woman, recently restored by the Academy Film Archive."
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},
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"Daughter of Shanghai": {
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"year": 1937,
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"description": "Features Anna May Wong as she uncovers the smuggling of illegal aliens through San Francisco's Chinatown, cooperating with costar Philip Ahn."
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},
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"Drums of Winter [Uksuum Cauyai]": {
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"year": 1988,
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"description": "Award-winning documentary exploring the rare dance language and culture of the Yup'ik Eskimo people in Emmonak, Alaska."
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},
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"Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10": {
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"year": 1939,
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"description": "Harry Smith made his mark in many fields as a groundbreaking avant-garde animator whose work used batik, collage and optical printing."
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},
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"Fargo": {
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"year": 1996,
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"description": "The Coen Brothers' original black comic spin on murder featuring Frances McDormand and William Macy in deadpan performances."
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},
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"Flesh and the Devil": {
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"year": 1927,
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"description": "The first on-screen pairing of silent superstars John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, directed by Clarence Brown."
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},
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"Groundhog Day": {
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"year": 1993,
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"description": "A clever comedy with a philosophical edge where Bill Murray relives the same day repeatedly, achieving personal redemption."
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},
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"Halloween": {
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"year": 1978,
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"description": "John Carpenter's first commercially successful film that ushered in the dawn of the slasher film through tension rather than gore."
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},
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"In the Street": {
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"year": 1948,
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"description": "Lyrical, slice-of-life documentary by Helen Levitt, James Agee, and Janis Loeb capturing energy-filled streets of East Harlem."
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},
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"The Last Command": {
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"year": 1928,
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"description": "Josef von Sternberg's drama features Emil Jannings, who is reduced to the scraps of 'extra' roles in Hollywood following Russian exile."
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},
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"Notorious": {
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"year": 1946,
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"description": "Arguably Alfred Hitchcock's best black-and-white American film featuring Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Cary Grant in a Gothic spy narrative."
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},
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"Red Dust": {
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"year": 1932,
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"description": "Steamy pre-Production Code melodrama pairing Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in a Far East plantation setting with memorable chemistry."
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},
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"Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania": {
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"year": 1971,
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"description": "Jonas Mekas' elegiac diary film of a trip to his Lithuanian birthplace, representing avant-garde experimental cinema."
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},
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"Rocky": {
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"year": 1976,
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"description": "Stirring tale of a million-to-one-shot underdog written by Sylvester Stallone, who also starred, becoming a top-grossing cultural sensation."
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},
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"sex, lies and videotape": {
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"year": 1989,
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"description": "Steven Soderbergh explores personal relationships with low-key style that launched the independent film renaissance of subsequent decades."
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},
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"Siege": {
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"year": 1940,
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"description": "Julien Bryan's documentary captures the dreadful brutality of war through unique Warsaw footage documenting the German bombardment and blitzkrieg."
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},
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"St. Louis Blues": {
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"year": 1929,
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"description": "Features the only film recording of Bessie Smith, 'Queen of the Blues,' backed by African-American artists in a two-reel musical short."
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},
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"The T.A.M.I. Show": {
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"year": 1964,
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"description": "Quite possibly the greatest rock and rhythm-and-blues concert on film featuring the Rolling Stones and James Brown's legendary performances."
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},
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"Tess of the Storm Country": {
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"year": 1914,
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"description": "The feature film that made Canadian-born Mary Pickford a national icon and international celebrity in early cinema."
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},
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"Think of Me First as a Person": {
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"year": 1960,
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"description": "Astonishing discovery depicting a father's loving portrait of his son with Down syndrome, representing American amateur filmmaking craftsmanship."
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},
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"A Time Out of War": {
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"year": 1954,
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"description": "Easily in the pantheon of best student films ever produced, winning the Oscar for best short film about a temporary Civil War truce."
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},
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"Traffic in Souls": {
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"year": 1913,
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"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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},
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}
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