Description: so this is a collection of the Films the National Film Preservation Board considers culturally significant and worthy of preserving. PS. you will notice that The Birth of a Nation is on this list That’s because its in the NFR! so im putting it on here. im not indorsing the fucking thing! get your Freaking priorities straight before calling me racist and sending death threats, ty. Enjoy the List. will likely forever be under construction as it contains over 800 films as of 2020. Note this is a recreation due to a long mishap of me being absent from the site and the list getting new ones added in recent years so i apologize to the 6 people who had my the original one Favorited. Edit: I have finally finished with the List!!!!!!! it took weeks to do mainly due to procrastination but i got it it done at least until the add more films to the film registry lol enjoy folks :) films not on the site
H20—1929 (short experimental film)
Martha Graham Dance Films——1931-1941 (Short Subject)
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films——-1924-1928 (Home Films)
Ringling Brothers Parade Film——-1902 (Documentary/Short Subject)
Zora Lathan Student Films——1975-1976 (Set of Student Films)
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The Thing from Another World
( 1951 )
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
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This Is Cinerama
( 1955 )
On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama.
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This Is Spinal Tap
( 1984 )
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
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Three Little Pigs (Short 1933)
( 1933 )
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
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Time and Dreams
( 1976 )
The filmmaker interviewed people about their feelings about how the civil rights movement and the rise of black politicians in Greene County had changed the area. Through the film, scenes ...
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A Time for Burning
( 1967 )
During the civil rights movement, a Lutheran minister in Nebraska sets out to integrate his church.
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A Time Out of War (Short 1954)
( 1961 )
A dramatic incident from the American Civil War when two Union soldiers and one Confederate soldier, facing each other at a battle front, agree on an hour's truce.
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The Times of Harvey Milk
( 1985 )
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
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Titanic
( 1997 )
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
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Titicut Follies
( 1992 )
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, where people stay trapped in their madness.
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To Be or Not to Be
( 1942 )
During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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To Fly! (Short 1976)
( 1981 )
Produced as the premier presentation for the Theatre of the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, takes the viewer on an aerial tour of America from a balloon ascension in the 1800's to a venture into space.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
( 1963 )
A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
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To Sleep with Anger
( 1990 )
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
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Tol'able David
( 1921 )
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
( 1969 )
Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame.
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Tongues Untied
( 1989 )
A documentary about the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States of America.
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Tootsie
( 1982 )
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
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Top Gun
( 1986 )
The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.
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Top Hat
( 1935 )
An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
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Topaz
( 1945 )
A compilation of two years' worth of footage taken surreptitiously by internee Dave Tatsuno inside the Topaz internment camp in Millard County, Utah.
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Touch of Evil
( 1958 )
A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.
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Toy Story
( 1995 )
A cowboy doll is profoundly jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as the top toy in a boy's bedroom. When circumstances separate them from their owner, the duo have to put aside their differences to return to him.
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Traffic in Souls
( 1913 )
With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
( 1948 )
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
( 1945 )
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
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A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (Short 1906)
( 1906 )
From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
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Trouble in Paradise
( 1932 )
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
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Tulips Shall Grow (Short 1942)
( 1942 )
A carefree boy and a young girl find their idyllic countryside invaded by an army of mindlessly destructive robots.
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Twelve O'Clock High
( 1950 )
A tough-as-nails general takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
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Twentieth Century
( 1934 )
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
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Two-Lane Blacktop
( 1971 )
While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
( 1914 )
A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
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Under Western Stars
( 1938 )
Roy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.
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Unforgiven
( 1992 )
Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself "The Schofield Kid".
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Union Maids
( 1977 )
Three women union organizers of the early Depression era discuss and reminisce their actions of the time and the current state of the labor movement. Accompanied by a lot of vintage folk music.
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Up in Smoke
( 1978 )
Stoner musicians Pedro DePacas and Anthony "Man" Stoner unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to Los Angeles with incompetent Police Sergeant Stedenko hot on their trail.
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Uptown Saturday Night
( 1974 )
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
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V-E +1
( 1945 )
A film that documents the burial of those who lost their lives at the Holocaust camp in Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.
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Block Party
( 1939 )
Released after eight months in jail, a boxer returns home to discover that his wife has recently become pregnant. His realization of her infidelity and search for the identity of the father soon turn into a dangerous obsession.
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Vertigo
( 1958 )
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
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A Virtuous Vamp
( 1919 )
A charming, attractive woman inadvertently causes a great disruption when she takes a job at a busy office by stealing the attention of all of her male co-workers--except the one she fancies.
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A Walk in the Sun
( 1945 )
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
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WALL·E
( 2008 )
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
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Wanda
( 1971 )
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
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The War of the Worlds
( 1953 )
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
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Water and Power
( 1989 )
A moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.
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The Watermelon Woman
( 1997 )
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
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Wattstax
( 1973 )
Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.
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The Wedding Banquet
( 1993 )
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
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The Wedding March
( 1928 )
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
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We're Alive
( 1974 )
Incarcerated women of the California Institution for Women share their perspectives and experiences on the complexities of life under incarceration.
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West Side Story
( 1961 )
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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Westinghouse Works
( 1904 )
Collection of 21 American short silent films. The films were taken from April 18, 1904 to May 16, 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and document various Westinghouse manufacturing plants.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
( 1962 )
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
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What's Opera, Doc? (Short 1957)
( 1957 )
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
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When Harry Met Sally...
( 1989 )
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
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Where Are My Children?
( 1916 )
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
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White Heat
( 1949 )
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
( 1988 )
When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
( 1966 )
A middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
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Who Killed Vincent Chin?
( 1989 )
The film recounts the murder of a Chinese-American automotive engineer in a racially motivated hate crime, and how the murderer escaped justice in the court system.
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Why Man Creates (Short 1968)
Mixing animation with live-action, Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates" is an eight-part meditation on the nature and struggle of creativity.
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Why We Fight
( 1942 )
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
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The Nazis Strike (Short 1943)
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
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Divide and Conquer
( 1943 )
The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France.
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The Battle of Britain
( 1945 )
The official World War II US government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation.
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The Battle of Russia
( 1943 )
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
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The Battle of China
( 2005 )
The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.
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War Comes to America
( 1945 )
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
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Wild and Woolly
( 1917 )
The civilized inhabitants of a formerly wild western town scramble to recreate the town's rough and rowdy heyday in order to indulge the fantasies of a rich newcomer.
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Wild Boys of the Road
( 1933 )
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
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The Wild Bunch
( 1969 )
An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
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Wild River
( 1960 )
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
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Will
( 2025 )
Will is a former college basketball star, without a job and struggling to get off heroin, who cares for a youth whom his friends want to get hooked.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
( 1957 )
To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
( 1971 )
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
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Winchester '73
( 1950 )
A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.
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The Wind
( 1928 )
A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
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Wings
( 1929 )
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
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With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain
( 1938 )
This advocacy documentary about the Lincoln Brigade was shot during the Spanish Civil War to raise funds for bringing wounded American volunteers home. Some 2,800 Americans enlisted in the ...
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Within Our Gates
( 1920 )
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
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The Wizard of Oz
( 1939 )
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
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The Wobblies
( 1979 )
Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory.
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Woman of the Year
( 1942 )
Sportswriter Sam Craig and columnist Tess Harding, with the same New York newspaper, overcome their initial antagonism, fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when he comes to resent her hectic lifestyle.
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A Woman Under the Influence
( 1974 )
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
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The Women
( 1939 )
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Woodstock
( 1970 )
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
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Word Is Out
( 1979 )
26 diverse lesbian and gay people are interviewed about their lives and the challenges they experience in a homophobic culture. A groundbreaking documentary is now an artefact of a different time.
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Wuthering Heights
( 1939 )
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
( 1942 )
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
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