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Butch, Sundance and singing frog make film registry

By The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — The Western outlaw romp "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and the Chuck Jones-Michael Maltese cartoon "One Froggy Evening" are among the films added to the National Film Registry this year.

The registry, established by Congress in the 1988 National Film Preservation Act, now contains 375 films. Each year 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant motion pictures are added to the registry.

"Our film heritage is America's living past," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said. "It celebrates the creativity and inventiveness of diverse communities and our nation as a whole."

By preserving films, he said, "we safeguard a significant element of our cultural history."

On the Web For more information, see www.loc.gov/film

The selected films are:

"Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman" (1974)

"Atlantic City" (1980)

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)

"The Chechahcos" (1924)

"Dickson Experimental Sound Film" (1894-95)

"Film Portrait" (1970)

"Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band" (1928)

"Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933)

"The Hunters" (1957)

"Matrimony's Speed Limit" (1913)

"Medium Cool" (1969)

"National Velvet" (1944)

"Naughty Marietta" (1935)

"Nostalgia" (1971)

"One Froggy Evening" (1956)

"Patton" (1970)

"Princess Nicotine; or The Smoke Fairy" (1909)

"Show People" (1928)

"The Son of the Sheik" (1926)

"Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)

"Tin Toy" (1988)

"The Wedding March" (1928)

"White Heat" (1949)

"Young Frankenstein" (1974)

"Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939)

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