The <http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/>National Film Preservation Board (NFPB), authorized and established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-285; 2 U.S.C. 179), serves as a public advisory group to the Librarian of Congress. The Board consists of 40 members and alternates representing the film industry, archives, scholars, filmmakers and others who make up the diverse American motion picture community. As its primary mission, the Board works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage, including: advising the Librarian on the annual selection of films to the National Film Registry, and counseling the Librarian on development and implementation of the national film preservation plan. The films added for 1998 are: "The Bride of Frankenstein" (Universal, 1935) (75 minutes, B&W) Producer, Carl Laemmle Jr.; director, James Whale; writers, John Balderston, William Hurlbut, based on the novel by Mary W. Shelley; cast, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Valerie Hobson, Una O'Connor, O.P. Heggie. "The City" (American Documentary Films, Inc., 1939) (45 mins., B&W) Directors, Willard Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner; writer, Henwar Rodakiewicz, based on an outline by Pare Lorentz. "Dead Birds" (Peabody Museum, 1964) (85 minutes, Technicolor) Director/narrator Robert Gardner; writer, Peter Mathieson. "Don't Look Back" (Leacock-Pennebaker, Inc., 1967) (96 minutes, B&W) Producers, Albert Grossman, John Court; cast, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Tito Burns, Derroll Adams, Allen Ginsburg. "Easy Rider" (Raybert Prods.-Pando Co./Columbia, 1969) (94 minutes, Technicolor) Producer, Peter Fonda; director, Dennis Hopper; writers, Fonda, Hopper, Terry Southern; cast, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker Jr., Luane Anders, Karen Black. "42nd Street" (Warner Bros., 1993) (89 mins., B&W) Director, Lloyd Bacon; writers, Rian James, James Seymour, based on the Bradford Ropes novel; cast, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins. "From the Manger to the Cross" (Kalem, 1912) (B&W, silent) Director, Sidney Olcott; writer, Gene Gauntier; cast, R. Henderson Bland, Gene Gauntier, Percy Dyer, Alice Hollister, Helen Lindroth, Jack J. Clark, J.P. McGowan, Robert Vignola, Sidney Baber. "Gun Crazy" (aka Deadly is the Female) (United Artists, 1949) Producers, Frank and Maurice King; director, Joseph H. Lewis; writers, MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, based on Kantor's "Saturday Evening Post" story; cast, Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw, Harry Lewis, Nedrick Young, Rusty Tamblyn. "The Hitch-Hiker" (Filmmakers/RKO, 1953) (71 minutes, B&W) Producer, Collier Young; director, Ida Lupino; writers, Young, Lupino, Robert Joseph, based on a story by Daniel Mainwaring; cast, Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, Jose Torvay, Sam Hayes, Wendell Niles, Jean Del Val, Clark Howat, Natividad Vacio. "The Immigrant" (Mutual, 1917) (B&W, silent) Director/writer, Charles Chaplin; Cast, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Kitty Bradbury, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, John Rand. "The Last Picture Show" (BBS/Columbia, 1971) (118 minutes, B&W) Producer, Stephen Friedman; director, Peter Bogdanovich; writers, Larry McMurtry, Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's novel; cast, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gallger, Sam Bottoms, Sharon Taggart, Randy Quaid. "Little Miss Marker" (Paramount, 1934) (78 minutes, B&W) Producer, B.P. Schulberg; director, Alexander Hall; writers, William Lipman, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, based on the Damon Runyon short story; cast Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Shirley Temple, Lynne Overman, Warren Hymer, Sam Hardy, John Kelly, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Jack Sheehan, Sam Hardy, Tammany Young. "The Lost World" (First National, 1925) (B&W, silent) Director Harry O. Hoyt; writer, Marion Fairfax, based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel; cast, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt, Bull Montana. "Modesta" (Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, 1956) (35 mins) Producer Otoniel Vila; director, Benji Doniger; writers, Benji Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet, Rene Marques, based on a short story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. "The Ox-Bow Incident" (20th Century-Fox, 1943) (76 mins., B&W) Producer, Lamar Trotti; Director, William Wellman, writer Lamar Trotti, based on the novel by Walter van Tilburg Clark; cast, Henry Fonda, Henry Morgan, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Harry Davenport, Frank Conroy, Francis Ford, Leigh Whipper, Mary Beth Hughes, Jane Darwell. "Pass the Gravy" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1928) (B&W, silent) Producer, Hal Roach; director, Fred L. Guiol; cast, Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Bert Sprotte, Gene Morgan, "Spec" O' Donnell. "The Phantom of the Opera" (Universal, 1925) (B&W, silent) Director, Rupert Julian; writers, Raymond Schroek, Elliot Clawson, based on the Gaston Leroux novel; cast, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland, John Sainpolis, Virginia Pearson, Arthur Edmund Carewe. "Powers of Ten" (Charles and Ray Eames, 1978) (9 minutes, color) Directors, Charles and Ray Eames. "The Public Enemy" (Warner Bros., 1931) (83 mins., B&W) Director, William Wellman; writers, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, adapation by Harvey Thew; cast, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, Mae Clarke. "Sky High" (Fox Film Corp., 1922) (B&W, silent) Director/writer, Lynn Reynolds; cast, Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak, Sid Jordan, William Buckley, Adele Warner, Wynn Mace, Pat Chrisman. "Steamboat Willie" (Walt Disney, 1928) (B&W, sound) Producers, Roy and Walt Disney; director, Walt Disney; writers, Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks. "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse" (Barney Elliot & The Camera Shop in Tacoma, 1940) Cinematographers, Barney Elliott and co-workers at the Camera Shop. "Tootsie" (Columbia, 1982) (116 mins., Technicolor) Producers, Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards; writers, Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal, from a story by Don McGuire and Gelbart; cast, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Geena Davis. "Twelve O'Clock High" (20th Century-Fox, 1949) (132 mins., B&W) Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck; director, Henry King; writers, Sly Bartlett, Beirne Lay Jr., based on their novel; cast, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Dean Jagger, Millard Mitchell, Robert Arthur, Paul Stewart, John Kellogg. "Westinghouse Works 1904" (American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1904) (B&W, silent) Cinematographer, G.W. Bitzer. ------------------------------ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.