Kicker - Preserved for future audiences

NICK EICHER, HOST: The National Film Registry has announced 25 new films to be preserved in the Library of Congress.

So far, about 800 films are in and every year the librarian picks new ones. Films have to be at least 10 years old to be considered and they have to have cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.

Among those newly chosen movies, I’m optimistic you’ll know at least a few

AUDIO: The emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.

REICHARD: Ah, Return of the Jedi

EICHER: Right! Disney and Pixar’s WALL-E was another inductee. And this blockbuster…

AUDIO: The fellowship awaits the ring bearer.

The first in the Tolkien Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring.

And it wasn’t just well-known works, the most interesting has to be a 1930s silent picture made by African American evangelist James Gist—Hellbound Train—and I’m telling you, it’s not subtle.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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