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106 lines
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Python
# 2008 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-08-237/2008-entries-to-national-film-registry-announced/2008-12-30
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NFR_2008 = {
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"The Asphalt Jungle": {
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"year": 1950,
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"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."
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},
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"Deliverance": {
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"year": 1972,
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"description": "Four Atlanta professionals head for a weekend canoe trip — and instead meet up with two of the more memorable villains in film history."
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},
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"Disneyland Dream": {
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"year": 1956,
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"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."
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},
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"A Face in the Crowd": {
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"year": 1957,
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"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."
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},
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"Flower Drum Song": {
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"year": 1961,
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"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."
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},
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"Foolish Wives": {
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"year": 1922,
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"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."
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},
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"Free Radicals": {
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"year": 1979,
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"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."
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},
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"Hallelujah": {
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"year": 1929,
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"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."
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},
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"In Cold Blood": {
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"year": 1967,
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"description": "With an unsparing neo-realism, director Richard Brooks adapted Capote's novel, focusing on the motivations, backgrounds, and relationship of the killers."
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},
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"The Invisible Man": {
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"year": 1933,
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"description": "Director James Whale brought a dazzling stylishness to what were essentially low-budget horror films with sophisticated special effects."
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},
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"Johnny Guitar": {
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"year": 1954,
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"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)."
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},
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"The Killers": {
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"year": 1946,
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"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."
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},
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"The March": {
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"year": 1964,
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"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."
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},
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"No Lies": {
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"year": 1973,
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"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."
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},
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"On the Bowery": {
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"year": 1957,
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"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."
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},
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"One Week": {
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"year": 1920,
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"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."
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},
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"The Pawnbroker": {
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"year": 1965,
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"description": "The first Hollywood film to depict in a realistic, psychologically probing manner the trauma of a Holocaust survivor, a subject previously taboo."
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},
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"The Perils of Pauline": {
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"year": 1914,
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"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."
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},
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"Sergeant York": {
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"year": 1941,
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"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."
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},
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"The 7th Voyage of Sinbad": {
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"year": 1958,
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"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."
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},
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"So's Your Old Man": {
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"year": 1926,
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"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."
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},
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"George Stevens World War II Footage": {
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"year": 1943,
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"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."
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},
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"The Terminator": {
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"year": 1984,
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"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."
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},
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"Water and Power": {
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"year": 1989,
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"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."
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},
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"White Fawn's Devotion": {
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"year": 1910,
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"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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},
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}
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