[78-L] National Film Registry 2009 list - only 2 musicals -

[David Lennick]

"Thriller" is in danger of disappearing? Kill me now.

dl

Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> Steve Ramm wrote:
>> Announced this week:
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>> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-250.html
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>> Only musicals are Muppet Movie and Thriller.
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>> Also, too bad they couldn't have rights to post link to excerts or trailers so folks could see samples of the more obscure films like Hot Dogs for Gauguin.
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>> LOC does this for the Sound Recording Registry.  Guess a copyright issue.
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> I have approached LOC about their holdings. They are reticent to release 
> anything they have due to copyright issues. All permissions are offsite 
> and must be obtained. The cost of obtaining copies is prohibitive.
> I have to wonder why we are paying the government to hoard this stuff.
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