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Library of Congress Offers More Than a Box of Chocolates

By Jeaneane Payne

"My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'" Tom Hanks conferred enduring fame upon that line in the award-winning movie "Forest Gump" in 1994. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has selected that film and 24 others to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

The films chosen include not only Hollywood classics but documentaries, home movies, animation, avant-garde shorts and experimental motion pictures. They range from Walt Disney's timeless classic "Bambi" and Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend," a landmark film about the devastating effects of alcoholism, to a real-life drama between a U.S. president and a governor over the desegregation of the University of Alabama. This year's selections bring the number of films in the registry to 575.

Annual selections to the registry are finalized by the Librarian after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public (this year 2,228 films were nominated) and conferring with Library film curators and the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB). The public is urged to make nominations for next year's registry at NFPB's website (www. loc.gov/film).

Films Selected to the 2011 National Film Registry:
Allures (1961)
Bambi (1942)
The Big Heat (1953)
A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment (1963)
The Cry of the Children (1912)
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
El Mariachi (1992)
Faces (1968)
Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Growing Up Female (1971)
Hester Street (1975)
I, an Actress (1977)
The Iron Horse (1924)
The Kid (1921)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-40s)
Norma Rae (1979)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Twentieth Century (1934)
War of the Worlds (1953)

Published December 29, 2011

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