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“Bambi” is 5th Disney film to be named to the National Film Registry
Walt Disney’s classic “Bambi” has become the fifth “Disney” film to be named to the National Film Registry, the Library of Congress announced this week.
“Bambi” joined the likes of “Forrest Gump” and Billy Wilder’s “The Lost Weekend” to be named to the registry, bringing the total films on the list to 575.
This marks the fourth Disney produced film to be named to the registry. The others are “Fantasia,” “Pinoccho” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
There is one other Disney film on the list, but this one was not produced by Disney.”Disneyland Dream” was a home movie made in 1956 by Robbins and Meg Barstow. The film documents their family’s free trip to the newly opened Disneyland. The one-week trip was a prize from a contest sponsored by Scotch tape. The movie was shot with a 16mm handheld camera and is 30 minutes long. The National Film Registry added this in 2008 citing its “fantastical historical snapshots” of early Southern California and the budding importance of the home movies.
Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the National Film Registry that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. Annual selections to the registry are finalized by the Librarian after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public (this year 2,228 films were nominated) and conferring with Library film curators and the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board, according to a news release.
