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106 lines
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Python
# 2011 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-240/2011-national-film-registry-more-than-a-box-of-chocolates/2011-12-28/
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NFR_2011 = {
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"Allures": {
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"year": 1961,
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"description": "Abstract imagery with a spiritual dimension featuring dazzling displays of color, light, and moving patterns by Jordan Belson, influenced by Wassily Kandinsky."
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},
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"Bambi": {
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"year": 1942,
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"description": "Walt Disney's animated coming-of-age story. One of film's most heart-rending stories of parental love with iconic characters and nature conservation messaging."
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},
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"The Big Heat": {
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"year": 1953,
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"description": "Post-war noir film starring Glenn Ford. Filled with atmosphere, fascinating female characters, and a jolting degree of violence directed by Fritz Lang."
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},
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"A Computer Animated Hand": {
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"year": 1972,
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"description": "Ed Catmull's pioneering work. One of the earliest examples of 3D computer animation displaying hand movements and finger flexing."
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},
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"Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment": {
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"year": 1963,
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"description": "Robert Drew's cinema-verite documentary capturing Governor George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door and President Kennedy's response during University of Alabama desegregation."
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},
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"The Cry of the Children": {
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"year": 1912,
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"description": "Silent melodrama addressing child labor reform. The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for stamping out social abuse."
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},
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"A Cure for Pokeritis": {
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"year": 1912,
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"description": "John Bunny comedy. Actor recognized as the living symbol of wholesome merriment."
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},
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"El Mariachi": {
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"year": 1992,
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"description": "Robert Rodriguez's $7,000 indie film. An energetic, highly entertaining tale of a musician mistaken for a hit man during a drug war."
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},
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"Faces": {
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"year": 1968,
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"description": "John Cassavetes' work described as a barrage of attack on contemporary middle-class America exploring marriage dissolution."
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},
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"Fake Fruit Factory": {
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"year": 1986,
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"description": "Chick Strand's documentary blending ethnographic techniques. An expressive, sympathetic look at Mexican women creating papier-mâché ornaments."
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},
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"Forrest Gump": {
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"year": 1994,
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"description": "Tom Hanks vehicle. A smash hit receiving six Academy Awards including Best Picture with technological innovations in digital insertion."
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},
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"Growing Up Female": {
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"year": 1971,
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"description": "Documentary from women's liberation movement. Among the first films documenting female identity formation across life stages."
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},
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"Hester Street": {
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"year": 1975,
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"description": "Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's novel. A portrait of Eastern European Jewish life in America examining immigration experiences."
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},
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"I, an Actress": {
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"year": 1977,
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"description": "George Kuchar's avant-garde short. Hilarious documentation of directing technique emphasizing camp aesthetics and love of artifice and exaggeration."
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},
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"The Iron Horse": {
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"year": 1924,
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"description": "John Ford's epic Western. Employed more than 5,000 extras celebrating transcontinental railroad construction and immigrant contributions."
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},
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"The Kid": {
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"year": 1921,
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"description": "Charlie Chaplin's feature debut. An artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy."
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},
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"The Lost Weekend": {
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"year": 1945,
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"description": "Billy Wilder film. An uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism winning four Academy Awards."
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},
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"The Negro Soldier": {
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"year": 1944,
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"description": "Frank Capra production unit film. A watershed in the use of film to promote racial tolerance featuring dignified African-American representation."
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},
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"Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies": {
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"year": 1930,
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"description": "Archival footage of renowned dancers. Capture a golden age of show business with rare documentation of Cotton Club and Broadway performances."
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},
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"Norma Rae": {
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"year": 1979,
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"description": "Sally Field vehicle. A treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women based on true unionization efforts."
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},
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"Porgy and Bess": {
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"year": 1959,
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"description": "George Gershwin's folk opera adaptation. Lavish production filmed during civil rights movement tensions regarding African-American representation."
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},
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"The Silence of the Lambs": {
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"year": 1991,
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"description": "Jonathan Demme thriller. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay featuring Anthony Hopkins."
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},
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"Stand and Deliver": {
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"year": 1988,
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"description": "Edward James Olmos film. Celebrates values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge from Latino filmmakers."
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},
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"Twentieth Century": {
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"year": 1934,
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"description": "Howard Hawks comedy. Marked the first of director Howard Hawks' frenetic comedies establishing screwball comedy genre conventions."
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},
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"War of the Worlds": {
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"year": 1953,
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"description": "Byron Haskin adaptation. Released at the height of cold-war hysteria with Academy Award-winning special effects described as soul-chilling."
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},
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}
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