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These Amazing Shadows: The Movies T hat Make America.(Brief article)(Video recording review)

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| March 15, 2012 | Horbal, Andrew | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

These Amazing Shadows: The Movies T hat Make America. color & b/w. 88+ min. Paul Mariano & Kurt Norton, WGBH & PBS, dist. by PBS, shoppbs.org/education. 2011. DVD UPC 841887015769. $24.99; Blu-ray UPC 841887015776 $29.99. FILM

Toward the end of this film, someone observes that "as children there were no good movies or bad movies; there were just movies." The strength of the National Film Registry is that it reflects the sense of wonder expressed by this statement. Every year since 1989, a panel of experts has selected 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" films to be acknowledged as works of art by the Library of Congress (LC). These Amazing …

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