"Women-Made Films" and the Registry

From the Huffington Post (Nov. 9, 2009):

Diane Tucker, "Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored by the National Film Registry. Why?"  (Click here to find out.)

More effective than describing the problem would have been to talk to members of the NFPB. Still, if one can organize more than 60 people to vote using the public Web input, one can get the Librarian's attention.

As of last week (before this Diane Tucker piece appeared), the top ranking votes for Registry titles indicate that the Women in Film and Video, DC chapter's write-in campaign had an impact.

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
Big House, The (1930, written by Frances Marion)
Growing Up Female (1971, Julia Reichert and Jim Klein)
New Sensations in Sound (1949, Mary Ellen Bute)
Will (1981, produced by Jessie Maple)

Followed by
Forrest Gump (62 votes)
Saving Private Ryan (61)
Titanic (50)
Pulp Fiction (46)
etc.
all the way down to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1 vote)

My first-round ballot looks like this:

The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-36, Félix and Edmundo Padilla)

The Exiles (1961, Kent MacKenzie)

Scratch and Crow (1995, Helen Hill)*

A Study in Reds (ca. 1932, Miriam Bennett)*

The Red Book (1994, Janie Geiser)*

The Jungle (1967, 12^th and Oxford Street Film Makers)

Quasi at the Quackadero (1975, Sally Cruikshank)*

V-E Day+1 May 9, 1945 (1945, Samuel Fuller)

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976, Gary Kildea and Jerry Leach)

Word Is Out (1978, Mariposa Film Group)

Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) 

Verdict Not Guilty (1930-33, Eloyce and James Gist)*

Across Brooklyn Bridge (1899, American Mutoscope Co.)

The High Lonesome Sound (1963/67, John Cohen)

Seventeen (1982, Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines)*

Fly Low Jack and the Game (1927, Marion Norris Gleason)*

The Inner World of Aphasia (1968, Edward Feil)

The Family Album (1986, Alan Berliner)

Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

Cicero March (1966, The Film Group) 

The Film of Her (1996, Bill Morrison)

The Muppet Movie (1979, James Frawley)

Children Limited (1951, Children’s Benevolent League) 

Painters Painting (1972, Emile de Antonio) 

Stark Love (1927, Karl Brown)

My Dinner with Andre (1981, Louis Malle)

Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991, Richard Blair)

Dan Streible