Thriller - varianta video - intră în colecţia de comori a Statelor Unite. De fapt, este un fel de bonus, pentru că în luna mai a anului 2008, albumul Thriller a fost considerat o parte a tezaurului naţional al SUA. Iată, deci, ştirile (o s-o dăm şi pe aia de anul trecut):
Associted Press updated 8:51 a.m. ET Dec. 30, 2009
'Thriller' to be saved in national film registry
Washington - Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, with that unforgettable graveyard dance, will rest among the nation’s treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.
The 1983 music video directed by John Landis, though still the subject of lawsuits over profits, was one of 25 films to be inducted Wednesday for preservation in the 2009 National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
It’s the first music video named to the registry. It had been considered in past years, but following Jackson’s death, the time was right, said Steve Leggett, coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board.
“Because of the way the recording industry is evolving and changing, we thought it would be good to go back to the development of an earlier seismic shift, which was the development of the music video,” he said.
The library works with film archives and movie studios to ensure original copies are kept safe. It also acquires a copy for preservation in its own vaults among millions of other recordings at the Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in the hills near Culpeper, Va.Congress established the registry in 1989, which now totals 525 films. They are selected not as the “best” American films but instead for their enduring importance to U.S. culture.
The library selects films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and consulting with the National Film Preservation Board.
(sursa: www.msnbc.msn.com)
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Jackson's Thriller album becomes US National TreasureMAY 15, 2008
The US Library of Congress has officially added Michael Jackson's Thriller to its National Recording Registry. In an effort to preserve records deemed "culturally and aesthetically significant", the Library has archived the album's "best existing version" its existence in perpetuity. Aside from being the biggest selling album of all time, Thriller also contained seven #1 hit singles, remained on Billboard's Top 10 for one year, won the Grammy award for Best Album and was recently inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
(sursa: www.michaeljackson.com)
