'Huckleberry Finn' 1,000th film to be saved - The Hollywood Reporter 10/12/06

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Hitting 1,000: '20 'Huck' will be preserved

By Brooks Boliek
The Hollywood Reporter
October 12, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The National Film Preservation Foundation on Wednesday selected the celebrated 1920 adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as the 1,000th film saved under the program. The classic film is one of the few complete features to survive from director William Desmond Taylor. It will be preserved by George Eastman House from a 35mm color-tinted nitrate print originally found in Denmark.

Since its founding by Congress through the National Film Preservation Foundation Act of 1996, the NFPF has provided preservation support to 152 institutions across the nation. NFPF programs target American films that are unlikely to survive without public support.

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Re: 'Huckleberry Finn' 1,000th film to be saved - The Hollywood Reporter 10/12/06

NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION PRESERVES
1000th FILM, SILENT-ERA CLASSIC HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The classic will be preserved by George Eastman House from a 35mm color-tinted nitrate print originally found in Denmark. Huckleberry FinnTreasures from American Film Archives DVD series, which makes available rare films preserved by American archives that are not in commercial distribution. The NFPF receives federal money through the Library of Congress to distribute as grants but raises all operating and project funding from other sources.
"The federal investment in film preservation is a government success story," said former Senator Fred Thompson, who serves on the NFPF Board of Directors. "With only a few hundred thousand federal dollars a year, the NFPF has rescued films from every part of the country and illuminated whole slices of American history. My home state alone has been able to save more than twenty films, from amateur movies of Hank Williams to footage of the Tennessee Tweetsie railroad."

"Like so many American silent films, Huckleberry Finn dropped from sight with the coming of talkies," commented Don Crafton, a scholar serving on a recent NFPF grant panel. "Today no complete copies survive in American archives except for this single print repatriated from Denmark some decades ago. We owe the Danish people thanks for safeguarding this quintessential American classic."

The National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage, is the charitable affiliate of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. It was ten years ago today that President Clinton signed into The National Film Preservation Foundation Act of 1996 into law. For the complete list of projects supported by the NFPF, visit the NFPF Web site:

http://www.filmpreservation.org/

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Re: 'Huckleberry Finn' 1,000th film to be saved - The Hollywood Reporter 10/12/06

I don't mean to go back to this, but you'd think with this news Disneyland would realize they need to keep Tom Sawyer Island. That's all I'm going to say.

...Joe...

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Re: 'Huckleberry Finn' 1,000th film to be saved - The Hollywood Reporter 10/12/06

I agree totally.
But, again, it's appealing to the lowest common denominator, and unfortuately, they don't care about this.