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106 lines
5.7 KiB
Python
# 2014 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-14-210/
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NFR_2014 = {
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"13 Lakes": {
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"year": 2004,
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"description": "James Benning's feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings shot at 13 American lakes in identical 10-minute takes, exploring landscape as a temporal element."
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},
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"Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day": {
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"year": 1913,
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"description": "Seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage featuring vaudevillian Bert Williams, believed to constitute the earliest surviving feature film starring black actors."
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},
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"The Big Lebowski": {
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"year": 1998,
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"description": "Joel and Ethan Coen's tale of kidnapping, mistaken identity and bowling became a highly quoted cult classic despite modest initial box office performance."
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},
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"Down Argentine Way": {
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"year": 1940,
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"description": "Betty Grable's breakthrough Technicolor musical where she traveled to South America and fell in love with Don Ameche, establishing her as a major star."
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},
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"The Dragon Painter": {
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"year": 1919,
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"description": "Sessue Hayakawa's film about an obsessed, untutored painter who loses his artistic powers after he finds and marries a supposed dragon princess."
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},
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"Felicia": {
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"year": 1965,
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"description": "A 13-minute short subject documenting a slice of life in the Watts neighborhood through a teenager's first-person narrative perspective."
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},
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"Ferris Bueller's Day Off": {
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"year": 1986,
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"description": "John Hughes's story of a teenage wiseacre whose day playing hooky leads to comic adventures and personal growth for himself and friends."
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},
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"The Gang's All Here": {
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"year": 1943,
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"description": "20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical featuring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda with legendary musical number choreography by Busby Berkeley."
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},
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"House of Wax": {
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"year": 1953,
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"description": "The first full-length 3-D color film produced by major American studio, introducing 3-D effects widely while establishing Vincent Price as horror master."
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},
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"Into the Arms of Strangers": {
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"year": 2000,
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"description": "Oscar-winning documentary examining the Kindertransport operation that placed thousands of Jewish children with foster families in Great Britain before WWII."
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},
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"Little Big Man": {
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"year": 1970,
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"description": "Arthur Penn's Western following a 121-year-old man looking back at his life as a pioneer with narrative interweaving fact and myth."
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},
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"Luxo Jr.": {
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"year": 1986,
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"description": "The iconic living, moving desk lamp in Pixar's charming, computer-animated short subject that became the studio's logo."
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},
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"Moon Breath Beat": {
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"year": 1980,
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"description": "CalArts student Lisze Bechtold's experimental animation exploring what happens when an animator follows a line, a patch of color, or a shape into the unconscious."
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},
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"Please Don't Bury Me Alive!": {
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"year": 1976,
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"description": "Considered by historians to be the first Chicano feature film, writer-director Efraín Gutiérrez's independent production addressing Vietnam War era identity."
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},
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"The Power and the Glory": {
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"year": 1933,
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"description": "Preston Sturges's debut screenplay, a haunting tragedy that introduced a non-chronological structure to mainstream movies influencing later classics."
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},
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"Rio Bravo": {
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"year": 1959,
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"description": "Howard Hawks Western where a sheriff and his deputies are waiting in a jail for a prisoner transfer and anticipated escape attempt."
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},
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"Rosemary's Baby": {
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"year": 1968,
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"description": "Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece where protagonist comes to believe that a cult of witches in the building is implementing a plot against her."
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},
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"Ruggles of Red Gap": {
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"year": 1935,
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"description": "Charles Laughton's comedy about an English manservant won in a poker game who discovers American egalitarianism and becomes a businessman."
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},
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"Saving Private Ryan": {
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"year": 1998,
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"description": "Spielberg's WWII film dropping ordinary soldiers into a near-impossible rescue mission set amid the carnage of Omaha Beach landing."
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},
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"Shoes": {
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"year": 1916,
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"description": "Lois Weber's social drama documenting the suffering of an underpaid shopgirl struggling to support family through poverty and exploitation."
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},
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"State Fair": {
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"year": 1933,
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"description": "Henry King's celebration of state fair traditions starring Will Rogers in a small town slice-of-life setting with Americana and romance storylines."
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},
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"Unmasked": {
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"year": 1917,
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"description": "Grace Cunard's film where she not only starred but also wrote its script and parlayed her contributions into a directorial role."
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},
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"V-E +1": {
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"year": 1945,
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"description": "Samuel Fuller's silent 16 mm footage documenting the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims at Falkenau concentration camp liberation."
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},
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"The Way of Peace": {
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"year": 1947,
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"description": "Frank Tashlin's puppet animation film sponsored by the American Lutheran Church using stop-motion to reinforce Christian values during the atomic age."
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},
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"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory": {
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"year": 1971,
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"description": "Gene Wilder stars in this musical adaptation where surreal, yet playful production design creates the fanciful world of Roald Dahl's imagination."
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},
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}
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