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106 lines
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# 2010 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-10-273/2010-national-film-registry-announced/2010-12-28/
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NFR_2010 = {
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"Airplane!": {
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"year": 1980,
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"description": "Emerged in 1980 as a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s."
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},
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"All the President's Men": {
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"year": 1976,
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"description": "A rare example of a best-selling book that was transformed into a hit theatrical film and a cultural phenomenon."
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},
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"The Bargain": {
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"year": 1914,
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"description": "William S. Hart's first film that made him a star, selected for Hart's charisma and the film's authentic portrayal of the Western genre."
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},
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"Cry of Jazz": {
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"year": 1959,
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"description": "Now recognized as an early and influential example of African-American independent filmmaking, a 34-minute short exploring connections between Black American life and jazz music."
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},
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"Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB": {
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"year": 1967,
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"description": "A 15-minute film produced by George Lucas while a student at USC that won the 1968 National Student Film Festival drama award."
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},
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"The Empire Strikes Back": {
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"year": 1980,
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"description": "The much anticipated continuation of the Star Wars saga that sustained the action-adventure success and helped establish one of cinema's most commercially successful franchises."
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},
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"The Exorcist": {
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"year": 1973,
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"description": "One of the most successful and influential horror films of all time, exemplifying how popular novels can be effectively adapted for screen."
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},
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"The Front Page": {
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"year": 1931,
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"description": "A historically significant early sound movie demonstrating Hollywood's rapid technical progress with sound technology innovation."
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},
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"Grey Gardens": {
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"year": 1976,
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"description": "An influential cinema verité documentary by Albert and David Maysles, examining the eccentric lives of two women related to Jacqueline Kennedy."
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},
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"I Am Joaquin": {
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"year": 1969,
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"description": "A 20-minute short film based on an epic poem, important to Chicano history and produced by Luis Valdez through Teatro Campesino."
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},
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"It's a Gift": {
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"year": 1934,
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"description": "The third Fields film to be named to the National Film Registry, featuring W.C. Fields in extended comic sequences adapted from his theatrical sketches."
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},
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"Let There Be Light": {
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"year": 1946,
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"description": "A war documentary directed by John Huston that was banned by the War Department for 35 years due to its unflinching documentation of combat veterans' psychological trauma."
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},
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"Lonesome": {
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"year": 1928,
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"description": "One of the few American feature films directed by Hungarian filmmaker Paul Fejös, notable for early dialogue and two-color Technicolor use."
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},
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"Make Way for Tomorrow": {
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"year": 1937,
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"description": "A sensitive, progressive, Depression-era film by director Leo McCarey exploring retirement, poverty, and generational discord."
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},
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"Malcolm X": {
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"year": 1992,
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"description": "Director Spike Lee's biographical film about the life of civil rights leader Malcolm X, featuring an Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington performance."
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},
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"McCabe and Mrs. Miller": {
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"year": 1971,
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"description": "An aesthetically acclaimed film by Robert Altman demonstrating how the Western genre examines contemporary American cultural realities."
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},
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"Newark Athlete": {
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"year": 1891,
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"description": "Produced May-June 1891, one of the first films made in America at Edison Laboratory, representing early motion picture camera innovation."
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},
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"Our Lady of the Sphere": {
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"year": 1969,
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"description": "One of Lawrence Jordan's best-known works, an experimental animated film blending baroque and Victorian imagery with surrealistic dream-like imagery."
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},
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"The Pink Panther": {
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"year": 1964,
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"description": "A comic masterpiece by Blake Edwards introducing the animated Pink Panther and Peter Sellers as the iconic Inspector Clouseau character."
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},
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"Preservation of the Sign Language": {
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"year": 1913,
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"description": "A short, one-reel film featuring George Veditz, documenting American Sign Language and advocating for deaf Americans' communication rights."
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},
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"Saturday Night Fever": {
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"year": 1977,
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"description": "Produced long after the heyday of classic Hollywood musicals, this film proved the American movie musical could be reinvented with dramatic realism."
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},
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"Study of a River": {
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"year": 1996,
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"description": "A meditative examination of the winter cycle of the Hudson River by experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton over a two-year period."
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},
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"Tarantella": {
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"year": 1940,
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"description": "A five-minute color, avant-garde short film created by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer combining visual music with electronic art in experimental cinema."
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},
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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": {
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"year": 1945,
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"description": "Elia Kazan's first feature film exploring individual struggle against powerful forces, released at World War II's conclusion."
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},
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"A Trip Down Market Street": {
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"year": 1906,
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"description": "A 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car, capturing pre-earthquake San Francisco daily life."
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},
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}
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