Disnelyand Dream named to The National Film Registry

The Library of Congress's National Film Registry has a mandate to preserve "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films." It is an exclusive club that few films belong to. Well, now a home movie has been added to the list: Robbins Barstow's 1956 Disneyland Dream. The Home & Amateur blog explains, "The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to Disneyland. Robbins and Meg Barstow, along with their children Mary, David and Daniel were among 25 families who won a free trip to the newly opened Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., as part of a ‘Scotch Brand Cellophane Tape’ contest sponsored by 3M.  Through vivid color and droll narration (”The landscape was very different from back home in Connecticut”), we see a fantastic historical snapshot of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Catalina Island, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios and Disneyland in mid-1956." You can watch it over at The Internet Archive.

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[Etherealpr]

It's not quite the first -- check out Sid Lavarents' amazing short amateur film Multiple Sidosis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRZmvr-2QM