NFR allows Ducks to Run Amuck
By rdemott2
Created 11/30/1999 - 01:00
files/pictures/picture-35.jpgLibrarian of Congress James Billington has announced that DUCK AMUCK along
with 24 live-action films will be added to the National Film Registry. As part
of the Library of Congress, the Registry was established in 1989 to preserve American
film heritage. Billington's list is formed by input from the National Film
Preservation Board and the public. With only 25 selections made each year,
DUCK AMUCK, the 1953 Chuck Jones short starring Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny,
with voices by Mel Blanc, joins an even smaller list of archived animated
films that include FANTASIA, GERTIE THE DINOSAUR, and another Bugs Bunny
short WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?. DUCK AMUCK joins the Registry with such diverse
work as Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING, Sam Peckinpah's WILD BUNCH, and
George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
