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Python
106 lines
6.4 KiB
Python
# 2013 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-216
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NFR_2013 = {
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"Bless Their Little Hearts": {
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"year": 1984,
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"description": "Part of the vibrant New Wave of independent African-American filmmakers to emerge in the 1970s and 1980s, this UCLA thesis film presents a family struggling through economic hardship with both sadness and humor."
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},
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"Brandy in the Wilderness": {
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"year": 1969,
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"description": "Stanton Kaye's experimental work documents a real couple's relationship through vignettes, blurring the distinction between documentary and fiction in a 1960s aesthetic."
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},
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"Cicero March": {
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"year": 1966,
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"description": "This documentary captures civil rights confrontations during the Chicago Freedom Movement, documenting the tense encounters between activists and residents of an all-white Illinois town."
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},
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"Daughter of Dawn": {
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"year": 1920,
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"description": "Featuring an all-Native-American cast of Comanches and Kiowas, this silent film presents a priceless record of Native-American customs, traditions and artifacts of the time."
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},
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"Decasia": {
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"year": 2002,
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"description": "Created from deteriorating nitrate film stock, Bill Morrison's experimental work uses decomposing found film to create imagery that transforms before viewers' eyes, accompanied by composer Michael Gordon's music."
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},
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"Ella Cinders": {
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"year": 1926,
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"description": "Colleen Moore stars in this Cinderella-inspired comedy exemplifying 1920s humor and the flapper aesthetic, celebrated for its energetic protagonist."
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},
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"Forbidden Planet": {
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"year": 1956,
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"description": "MGM's science-fiction epic loosely adapts Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring themes of power and technology while pioneering intergalactic storytelling and electronic soundscapes."
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},
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"Gilda": {
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"year": 1946,
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"description": "This film noir features Rita Hayworth in an iconic performance, representing the Hollywood glamorization of film noir—long on sex appeal but short on substance."
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},
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"The Hole": {
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"year": 1962,
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"description": "John and Faith Hubley's Academy Award-winning animated meditation contemplates nuclear catastrophe through dialogue improvised by Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews."
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},
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"Judgment at Nuremberg": {
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"year": 1961,
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"description": "Examining post-WWII justice, screenwriter Abby Mann's adaptation argues that those responsible for administering justice also have the duty to ensure that human-rights norms are preserved."
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},
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"King of Jazz": {
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"year": 1930,
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"description": "This early Technicolor musical revue centers on orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, featuring performances from Bing Crosby and George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.'"
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},
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"The Lunch Date": {
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"year": 1989,
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"description": "Adam Davidson's 10-minute student film explores the partial erosion of haughty self-confidence when stranded outside one's personal comfort zone through an unexpected encounter."
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},
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"The Magnificent Seven": {
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"year": 1960,
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"description": "Based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, this Western features Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn as gunslingers protecting Mexican villagers from bandits."
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},
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"Martha Graham Early Dance Films": {
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"year": 1931,
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"description": "This collection includes 'Heretic,' 'Frontier,' 'Lamentation,' and 'Appalachian Spring'—silent films documenting the pioneering modern dance choreographer's revolutionary techniques."
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},
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"Mary Poppins": {
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"year": 1964,
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"description": "Disney's beloved musical featuring Julie Andrews combines animation with live action, integrating a witty script, an inventive visual style and a slate of classic songs."
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},
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"Men and Dust": {
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"year": 1940,
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"description": "Producer-director Lee Dick's labor advocacy documentary examines mining-related diseases across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, serving as an ecological record of industrial transformation."
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},
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"Midnight": {
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"year": 1939,
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"description": "Mitchell Leisen's romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert impersonating a Hungarian countess, praised by the New York Times as 'one of the liveliest, gayest, wittiest comedies.'"
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},
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"Notes on the Port of St. Francis": {
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"year": 1951,
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"description": "Frank Stauffacher's impressionistic film combines iconic San Francisco imagery with narration by Vincent Price based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 essay."
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},
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"Pulp Fiction": {
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"year": 1994,
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"description": "Quentin Tarantino's influential independent film combines narrative elements of hardboiled crime novels and film noir with the bright widescreen visuals of Sergio Leone."
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},
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"The Quiet Man": {
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"year": 1952,
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"description": "John Ford's tribute to Irish heritage stars John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, beautifully photographed in rich, saturated Technicolor and shot on location."
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},
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"The Right Stuff": {
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"year": 1983,
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"description": "Philip Kaufman's three-hour-thirteen-minute epic adapts Tom Wolfe's novel about space program pioneers, blending Western elements with satire to examine national pride and hero worship."
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},
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"Roger & Me": {
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"year": 1989,
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"description": "Michael Moore's documentary chronicles General Motors' layoffs affecting 30,000 Flint workers, examining the human toll and hemorrhaging of jobs during economic upheaval."
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},
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"A Virtuous Vamp": {
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"year": 1919,
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"description": "Screenwriter Anita Loos crafted this satirical workplace romance starring Constance Talmadge, whose character's knowing innocence captured audiences' imagination during the silent era."
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},
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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?": {
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"year": 1966,
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"description": "Edward Albee's adaptation features Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a warring couple, presenting frank, code-busting language and depictions of middle-class malaise-cum-rage."
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},
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"Wild Boys of the Road": {
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"year": 1933,
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"description": "William Wellman's Depression-era drama portrays homeless teens hopping freight trains, representing Warner Bros.' gritty social conscience dramas of the early 1930s."
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},
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}
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