National Film Registry 2006

Library of Congress Press Release

									
 									
Films Selected to the
2006 National Film Registry,
Library of Congress 

More information to come shortly!!

1)  Applause  (1929)

2) The Big Trail  (1930)

3)  Blazing Saddles  (1974)

4)  The Curse of Quon Gwon  (1916-17)

5)  Daughter of Shanghai  (1937)

6)  Drums of Winter  (1988)

7)  Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10  (1939-56)

8)  Fargo  (1996)

9)  Flesh and the Devil  (1927)

10) Groundhog Day  (1993)

11) Halloween  (1978)

12) In the Street  (1948/52) 

13) The Last Command  (1928)

14) Notorious  (1946)

15) Red Dust  (1932)

16) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania  (1971-72)

17) Rocky  (1976)

18) Sex, Lies and Videotape  (1989)

19) Siege  (1940)

20) St. Louis Blues  (1929)

21) The T.A.M.I. Show  (1964)

22) Tess of the Storm Country  (1914)

23) Think of Me First as a Person  (1960-75)

24) A Time Out of War  (1954)

25) Traffic in Souls (1913)

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12/27/06                        



Credits for Films Selected to 

the 2006 National Film Registry 

of the Library of Congress


[Note: Credits are provided for informational purposes only and in no way meant to be definitive or comprehensive]

 

1)  Applause  (Paramount, 1929)   80 minutes, b&w, sound 

 

Producer: Monta Bell

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Screenplay: Garrett Fort, based on the novel of the same name by Beth Brown

Cinematographer: George J. Folsey, A.S.C.

Editor: John Bassler

Songs: E.Y. Harburg, Jay Gorney, E. Ray Goetz, Joe Young, Pete Wendling, Dolly 

Morse, Joe Burke, Billy Rose, Harry Link and “Fats” Waller

 

Cast: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish, Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry 

Wadsworth, Dorothy Cumming

 

 

2) The Big Trail  (Fox, 1930)        121 minutes, b&w  (Grandeur version ca. 135 minutes)

      Released in 35mm and Grandeur wide-screen process 

Director: Raoul Walsh

Screenplay: Jack Peabody, Marie Boyle, Florence Postal and Fred Serser, based on a 

story by Hal Evarts

Cinematographer: Lucien Andriot, A.S.C. and Arthur Edeson, A.S.C. (Grandeur camera)

Art Direction: Harold Miles

Editor: Jack Dennis

Music: Arthur Kay

 

Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., David Rollins, Ian Keith, Frederick Burton, Russ Powell, Charles Stevens, Louise Carver, William Mong, Dodo Newton, Ward Bond, Marcia Harris, Marjorie Leet, Emslie Emerson, Frank Rainboth, Andy Shufford, Helen Parrish, Jack Peabody, Gertrude Van Lent, Lucille Van Lent, De Witt Jennings, Alphonz Ethier

 

 

 

 

3)  Blazing Saddles  (Warner Bros., 1974)               93 minutes, Technicolor 

 

Producer: Michael Hertzberg

Director: Mel Brooks

Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and 

            Alan Uger, based on a story by Andrew Bergman

Cinematographer: Joseph Biroc

Editors: John C. Howard and Danford Greene

Music: John Morris. Title song and lyrics by Morris and Mel Brooks

Production Design: Peter Wooley

 

Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, 

            Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, 

            George Furth, Claude E. Starrett, Jr., Dom DeLouise, Count Basie

 

4)  The Curse of Quon Gwon  (Mandarin Film Company, 1916-17)        

Originally 7-8 reels, silent, b&w, but film had been considered lost. Recently 34 minutes have been rediscovered, about 40% of the film.

 

Director/Writer: Marion Wong

Cast: Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee

 

5)  Daughter of Shanghai  (Paramount, 1937)                     63 minutes, b&w

 

Director: Robert Florey

Screenplay: Gladys Unger and Garnett Weston, based on a story by Weston

Cinematographer: Charles Schoenbaum, A.S.C.

Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland

Music Direction: Boris Morros

Art Directors: Hans Dreier and Robert Odell

 

Cast: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe, Cecil

Cunningham, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, John Patterson, Evelyn Brent

 

6)  Drums of Winter (Uksuum Cauyai) (Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling, 1988)

                             (90 minutes, color)

 

Director/Writer: Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling

Cinematographer: Leonard Kamerling

Editor: Sarah Elder

 

 

 

 

7)  Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10  (Harry Smith, 1939-56)        

      23 minutes, b&w and color                       

Original version was silent. Over the years, various music has been attached.

Director: Harry Smith

 

 

8)  Fargo  (Grammery Pictures, 1996)                    97 minutes,color

 

Producer: Ethan Coen

Director: Joel Coen

Screenplay: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins, A.S.C.

Editor: Roderick Jaynes (Coen Brothers)

Music: Carter Burwell

Production Design: Rick Heinrichs

Art Direction: Thomas P. Wilkins

Set Decoration: Lauri Gaffin

 

Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Peter Stormare, Harve

            Presnell, John Carroll Lynch, Kristin Rudrud, Steven Reevis, Steve Park, Jose 

          Feliciano

 

 

9)  Flesh and the Devil  (MGM, 1927)      112 minutes, silent, b&w

 

Director: Clarence Brown

Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer, based upon the novel The Undying Past by Hermann

            Sudermann

Cinematographer: William Daniels, A.S.C.

Titles: Marian Ainslee

Editor: Lloyd Nosler

Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope

Costume Design: André-ani

 

Cast: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, George Fawcett,

            Eugenie Besserer, Marc MacDermott, Marcelle Corday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10) Groundhog Day  (Columbia, 1993)                   103 minutes, color

 

Producers: Trevor Albert and Harold Ramis

Director: Harold Ramis

Writers: Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, based on a story by Rubin

Cinematographer: John Bailey, A.S.C.

Editor: Pembroke J. Herring

Music: George Fenton

Production Design: David Nichols

Art Direction: Peter Lansdown Smith

Set Design: Lisa Fischer and Karen Fletcher Trujillo

 

Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian 

            Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick 

            Overton, Robin Duke

 

11) Halloween  (Compass International, 1978)                     93 minutes, color

 

Producer: Debra Hill

Director: John Carpenter

Screenplay: Debra Hill and John Carpenter

Cinematographer: Dean Cundey, A.S.C.

Music: John Carpenter

Editors: Tommy Wallace and Charles Burnstein

Production Design: Tommy Lee Wallace

Set Decoration: Craig Stearns

 

Cast: Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Sandin, Nick Castle, Nancy Loomis, 

            P.J. Soles, Brian Andrews, Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers, John Michael

            Graham, Nancy Stephens

 

12) In the Street  (1948/1952)        16 minutes, b&w

 

Director: Helen Levitt

Cinematographers: Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb and James Agee

Music: Arthur Kleiner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13) The Last Command  (Paramount, 1928)                     88 minutes, silent, b&w

 

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Screenplay: John Goodrich, based on an original story by Lajos Biró

Titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz

Cinematographer: Bert Glennon, A.S.C.

Editor: William Shea

Art Direction: Hans Dreier

 

Cast: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin, Michael

            Visaroff, Jack Raymond

 

14) Notorious  (RKO, 1946)               101 minutes, b&w

Producer/Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Screenplay: Ben Hecht

Cinematographer: Ted Tetzlaff, A.S.C.

Editor: Theron Warth

Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino and Carroll Clark

Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter

Music: Roy Webb

 

Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Madame Konstantin, 

            Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis

 

15) Red Dust  (MGM1932)          83 minutes, b&w

 

Director: Victor Fleming

Screenplay: John Mahin, based on the play of the same name by Wilson Collison

Cinematographer: Harold Rosson, A.S.C.

Editor: Blanche Sewell

Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons

 

Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully

            Marshall, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung

 

16) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania  (Jonas Mekas, 1971-72)        

            89 minutes, color

 

Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Jonas Mekas

 

 

 

 

 

17) Rocky  (United Artists, 1976)        119 minutes, color

 

Producers: Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler

Director: John G. Avildsen

Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone

Cinematographer: James Crabe, A.S.C.

Editor: Richard Halsey

Music: Bill Conti

 

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, 

            Joe Spinell, Thayer David, Joe Frazier, Jimmy Gambina         

 

18) Sex, Lies and Videotape  (Outlaw/Miramax, 1989)  101 minutes, color

 

Producers: Robert Newmyer and John Hardy

Director/Writer/Editor: Steven Soderbergh

Cinematographer: Walt Lloyd

Music: Cliff Martinez

Art Direction: Joanne Schmidt

Set Decoration: Victoria Snyder

 

Cast: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Ron 

            Vawter, Steven Brill, David Foil, Earl Taylor, Alexandra Root

 

19) Siege  (RKO, 1940)      10 minutes, b&w

Cinematographer/Narrator: Julien Bryan

 

20) St. Louis Blues  (Sack Amusement Enterprises/RKO, 1929)  16 minutes, sound, b&w

 

Director: Dudley Murphy

Screenplay: Dudley Murphy

Music: W.C. Handy and J. Rosamond Johnson: 

Cinematographer: Walter Strenge, A.S.C.

Cast: Bessie Smith, Jimmy Mordecai, Jimmy Johnson, Isabel Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21) The T.A.M.I. Show  (Electronovision Productions/American International 

            Pictures, 1964) 110 minutes, b&w 

(Also known as Teenage Awards Music International, Teen Age Music International  and Teenage Command Performance)

Filmed record of October 1964 rock and r&b concert performance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

 

Producer: Lee Savin

Director: Steve Binder

Cinematographer: Jim Kilgore

 

Performers include: James Brown and The Flames, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, 

            Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Jan and Dean, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Smokey 

            Robinson and the Miracles, Lesley Gore, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, The 

            Barbarians

 

22) Tess of the Storm Country  (Famous Players/Paramount, 1914)       

   5 reels, silent, b&w

 

Director: Edwin Stanton Porter

Screenplay: B.P. Schulberg, based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White

 

Cast: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Golden, David Hartford, Louise Dunlap, 

W. R. Walters, Richard Garrick, Eugene Walter, Lorraine Thompson, Jack Henry

 

23) Think of Me First as a Person  (1960-75)  ca. 10 minutes  

home movie/documentary

 

Cinematographer: Dwight Core

Editor: George Ingmire

 

24) A Time Out of War  (Carnival Productions, 1954)  22 minutes, b&w

 

Director/Writer: Dennis Sanders

Cinematographer: Terry Sanders

Music: Frank Hamilton

 

Cast: Barry Atwater, Robert Sherry and Corey Allen

 

 

 

 

 

 

25) Traffic in Souls (IMP/Universal, 1913)  6 reels, silent, b&w

 

Director: George Loane Tucker

Screenplay: Walter MacNamara and Tucker

 

Cast:  Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William Turner, Matt Moore, William Welsh, Mrs. Hudson 

            Lyston, William Cavanaugh, Irene Wallace