CONELRAD's Official Nomination Succeeds - Bert the Turtle inDUCKted into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry
Thanks to the efforts of CONELRAD and its readers, the classic Cold War civil defense children's film "Duck and Cover" has been inducted into the National Film Registry.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 30, 2004 -- Last March CONELRAD, the website
devoted to Cold War popular culture filed the official nomination with the
Library of Congress to include the 1951 Civil Defense short "Duck and Cover" in
its 2004 selection of 25 historically significant motion pictures in its
National Film Registry. Today it was announced that Bert the Turtle, the
animated hero of this first civil defense film produced for children, will
indeed join such celluloid icons as Charles Foster Kane, Jake Gittes and
Scarlett O'Hara in a temperature controlled vault paid for by you the taxpayer.
Yes, "Duck and Cover" is going to be preserved for the ages.
CONELRAD
believes that "Duck and Cover" deserves its inclusion in the Registry. Beyond
the nominal entrance criteria, "Duck and Cover" is also one of the most famous
educational films ever made. The movie's title alone has come to be used as
universal shorthand for the Cold War. Images and clips from the film have been
used for decades to evoke the era of the 1950's. In the post-9/11 world the
phrase "Duck and Cover" has been resurrected for a whole new age of paranoia.
CONELRAD wishes to thank its readers in supporting the official
nomination that ensured "Duck and Cover"'s place in our nation's history.
Without this support it is doubtful Bert and his film would have ever joined the
esteemed company it now keeps.
Congress first established the National
Film Registry in the 1988 National Film Preservation Act. Since 1989, the
Librarian of Congress has selected 375 films for preservation. Titles include
"Casablanca," "All About Eve," "Patton" and the 1963 Zapruder film of President
Kennedy's assassination. A complete list is available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/titles.html
You can read more
about "Duck and Cover" in CONELRAD's recently posted production history of the
film here http://www.conelrad.com/duckandcover/. This feature includes
interviews, documents and photographs related to the film.
CONELRAD is a website that has been recognized
by national media and as well as by academia for its incisive and witty Atomic
pop culture analysis since its debut in 1999. For Cold War film, music,
television, tourism, and secrets, CONELRAD is considered one-stop shopping for
anyone obsessed with this bizarre era of American life.
Contact
Information:
Bill Geerhart, editor and co-founder of CONELRAD
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Ken Sitz, creative director
and co-founder of CONELRAD
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