‘Terminator’ Preserved For Future Generations
“The Terminator,” the 1984 movie that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger into superstardom, will live on in the U.S. Library of Congress.
The movie directed by Canadian James Cameron is one of 25 films that have been added to the National Film Registry, a collection established in 1989 to digitize and preserve movies with cultural, historic or aesthetic significance.
Other titles joining the archive are the 1950 film noir “The Asphalt Jungle,” the acclaimed 1972 drama “Deliverance” and 1967 version of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” directed by Richard Brook.
Movies are added annually to the registry, which currently includes 500 films.
The library said “The Terminator,” which features time-travelling cyborgs who threaten the future of the human race, was chosen for Schwarzenegger’s star-making performance and for standing the test of time as a shining example of the science fiction genre.
The movie spawned two sequels and a 2008 TV series, with a third movie sequel due for release in 2009.
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