The National Registry of Film is a fairly small collection of films preserved in the Library of Congress. The National Film Preservation Board adds up to 25 “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films” to the NRF each year. This year a number of adaptations landed on the registry including one of our favorite adaptations of all time, The Shawshank Redemption (based on a Stephen King short story) as well as one of the oldest adaptations I’m aware of, Dream of Rarebit Fiend, which is a 7-minute silent film from 1906 based on a comicstrip.
Other adaptations on the list include Being There from 1979 based on a book by the same name published in 1970, A Spanish language Dracula from 1931, and Imitation of Life produced in 1959 from the 1933 novel.
To see the full list of films in the National Registry of Film, go here.
(via thewrap)