These Amazing Shadows 2011 123movies

Watch: These Amazing Shadows 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” by the Library of Congress and listed on the National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows tells the history and importance of The Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 525 films includes selections from every genre – documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how American movies tell us so much about ourselves…not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves..
Plot: Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
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	7.6/10 Votes: 1,725
	75% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 60 Popularity: 4.484 | TMDB

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Interesting Look At The “Big Picture” Of Film Preservation
For many people, motion pictures are not “just” an entertainment medium. Instead, they are not unlike any other form of artistic expression, filled with the realities (good or bad, perceived or real) of the time period in which they were made. In essence, films can be considered to be kind of a “time capsule” for the human condition, told in the form of scripted tales. As such, many such works of art deserved to be saved, which is exactly what this documentary focuses on.

For a basic plot summary, “These Shadows” describes how certain films (voted on by a panel of motion picture luminaries) are currently being preserved in the Library of Congress (or our “national library”) for future posterity. However, problems often exist in restoring the original negatives of even such classic pictures as “Gone With The Wind” or “The Wizard of Oz”.

“These Shadows” takes very much of a “big picture” look at film preservation. While it could have spent hours on the fascinating topic of the physical restoration process itself, the filmmakers instead give an overview of the entire Library of Congress process, from its beginning (aka finding the funding) to which movies are selected and finally to how the overall scheme of things will proceed into the future. Any one of these areas could have been focused on in their own documentaries, but here they are condensed into the overall narrative of the project.

Overall, then, this is a fun little documentary that introduces us to the very concept of preserving motion pictures as we would other works of art or historic culture. Anyone who enjoys the film arts will likely agree that its place in our own national culture is very deserving.

Interesting Look At The “Big Picture” Of Film Preservation
For many people, motion pictures are not “just” an entertainment medium. Instead, they are not unlike any other form of artistic expression, filled with the realities (good or bad, perceived or real) of the time period in which they were made. In essence, films can be considered to be kind of a “time capsule” for the human condition, told in the form of scripted tales. As such, many such works of art deserved to be saved, which is exactly what this documentary focuses on.

For a basic plot summary, “These Shadows” describes how certain films (voted on by a panel of motion picture luminaries) are currently being preserved in the Library of Congress (or our “national library”) for future posterity. However, problems often exist in restoring the original negatives of even such classic pictures as “Gone With The Wind” or “The Wizard of Oz”.

“These Shadows” takes very much of a “big picture” look at film preservation. While it could have spent hours on the fascinating topic of the physical restoration process itself, the filmmakers instead give an overview of the entire Library of Congress process, from its beginning (aka finding the funding) to which movies are selected and finally to how the overall scheme of things will proceed into the future. Any one of these areas could have been focused on in their own documentaries, but here they are condensed into the overall narrative of the project.

Overall, then, this is a fun little documentary that introduces us to the very concept of preserving motion pictures as we would other works of art or historic culture. Anyone who enjoys the film arts will likely agree that its place in our own national culture is very deserving.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton
Writer Douglas Blush, Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton
Actors Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 1 nomination
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Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1 (high definition)
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