National Film Registry Additions for 2012 Announced

posted December 19, 2012

The Library of Congress today named 25 motion pictures that have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Among them is Sons of the Desert (1933), a riotous comedy that starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, along with comedian Charley Chase. Veteran director William A. Seiter for Hal Roach Studios successfully incorporated into a feature-length film many of the comedic techniques that had made Laurel & Hardy masters of short-subject humor.

The selections:

• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
• The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
• Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
• One Survivor Remembers (1995)
• Parable (1964)
• Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
• Slacker (1991)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
• They Call It Pro Football (1967)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1914)
• The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)

 

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