Washington — The Western outlaw romp Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Elizabeth Taylor's National Velvet have been added to the National Film Registry.
They were among 25 films selected this year for preservation by the Library of Congress.
The registry, established by Congress in the 1988 National Film Preservation Act, now contains 375 films.
Each year "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant motion pictures are added to the registry, the library said in a statement on Tuesday. This year's selections span from 1894 to 1988.
"Our film heritage is America's living past," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said Tuesday. "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."
The 1934 movie Tarzan and His Mate, with Tarzan and Jane battling poachers in the jungle; White Heat, a 1949 gangster film starring James Cagney, and the short animation Tin Toy from Pixar Studios in 1988 also made the list.
Other movies included The Hunters, a 1957 film chronicling a giraffe hunt by Kalahari Desert tribesmen, and the 1926 tongue-in-cheek adventure-romance The Son of the Sheik.
