The National Film Registry is housed at the Library of Congress, which since 1988 has selected movies for preservation based on their cultural and historic importance.
, a list that ranges from Disney’s "The Little Mermaid" to a 1898 silent documentary, long thought lost, about the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
The registry is housed at the Library of Congress, which since 1988 has selected movies for preservation based on their cultural and historic importance. This year’s picks bring the total number of films in the registry to 850 — many of which are among the 1.7 million films in the library’s collections.
Among a number of other LGBTQ-themed films chosen this year is the 1967 student short film "Behind Every Good Man" by Nikolai Ursin, a look at Black gender fluidity in Los Angeles. Another: the 1977 "Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives," which interviewed over two dozen gay people about their lives, becoming a landmark of the early gay rights movement.
— "The Little Mermaid , the classic Disney production with the Alan Menken and Howard Ashman songs about Ariel, who lives under the sea but wishes she were human.
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