You may be aware that Back To The Future has been preserved by the US Library Of Congress, along with 25 other films, including Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
They do this every year, to ensure classic movies are maintained for future generations to enjoy – because they're "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". So far, 475 films are being kept in a special vault to protect them from "vinegar syndrome" (a chemical reaction that attacks the acetates of old film stock.)
Great news, eh? BTTF joins such luminaries as Oklahoma!, Dances With Wolves, Wuthering Heights and Bullitt.
Only, nobody's stopped to consider one thing: why aren't BTTF's two sequels automatically included in the preservation scheme? Sure, they're not as significant (or as good) as the 1985 original, but... if the world ever suffers a big catastrophe and mankind is wiped out... only one film in the trilogy has a chance of surviving time!
I can just imagine, thousands of years from now, new life-forms watching the US Library Of Congress' entire film library, as their prime source of historical material on us...
Just think: a bipedal dolphin equivalent of Tony Robinson might spend his life trying to answer two unexplained questions:
1. What has to be done about Marty's kids?
2. Where are they going that doesn't need roads?
They do this every year, to ensure classic movies are maintained for future generations to enjoy – because they're "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". So far, 475 films are being kept in a special vault to protect them from "vinegar syndrome" (a chemical reaction that attacks the acetates of old film stock.)
Great news, eh? BTTF joins such luminaries as Oklahoma!, Dances With Wolves, Wuthering Heights and Bullitt.
Only, nobody's stopped to consider one thing: why aren't BTTF's two sequels automatically included in the preservation scheme? Sure, they're not as significant (or as good) as the 1985 original, but... if the world ever suffers a big catastrophe and mankind is wiped out... only one film in the trilogy has a chance of surviving time!
I can just imagine, thousands of years from now, new life-forms watching the US Library Of Congress' entire film library, as their prime source of historical material on us...
Just think: a bipedal dolphin equivalent of Tony Robinson might spend his life trying to answer two unexplained questions:
1. What has to be done about Marty's kids?
2. Where are they going that doesn't need roads?
