S1E33 - Planet of the Apes
Does it deserve to be on the National Film Registry? Sure.
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S1E34 - A Damsel in Distress
A Fred Astaire/Joan Fontaine film that is really starring George Burns & Gracie Allen! Oh yeah, and music by the Gershwins and a script by P.G. Wodehouse...
S1E35 - The Band Concert
A Disney Mickie Mouse short that should 100% be on the Registry, but somehow is not!!!!!
S1E36 - The Thieving Hand
An early trick film that really should be on the Registry. Re-released with transcript
A look at an early work that influenced horror, and may have been saying something about class mobility. I was inspired to get off my butt and do the episode by the wonderful episode of Slums of Film History about Terrible Transplants!
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S1E37 - Luxo, Jr.
A look at Pixar's most iconic short film!
S1E38 - Freaks by Todd Browning
One of the most controversial of all the horror films of the 1930s, and in my eyes, one of the best. Todd Browning's FREAKS probably had the complex relationship with studios, director, writers, and audiences of all the films designed for frights, but it also sheds a very human light on people who were all too often dehumanized.
S1E39 - Legendary Champions
A look at the Harry Chapin classic late 19th and early 20th Century Boxing documentary!
S1E40 - Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz, and the Two Registries
A look at the song Over the Rainbow (added to the National Recording Registry in 2016) and The Wizard of Oz (an initial entry on the National Film Registry) and the meaning of the song when you look at the film, and her life.
S1E41 - The Black Cat
Bela Legosi and Boris Karloff together for the first, and by far the best, film in their careers!
S1E42 - The Role of Remakes on the National Film Registry
What is it? Does it have one?