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AUTHOR: Stacie Seifrit-Griffin

Stacie Seifrit-Griffin works with the Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board and National Film Registry. Prior to the Library, her career in the entertainment industry spanned radio, television and live events including CBS, UPN, KROQ (LA), HOT 97 (NY), WPGC (DC) and LOCKN' music festival. She is on a mission to watch all 875 films on the National Film Registry. She has completed 692 of 875, and is currently watching "Tom Tom The Piper's Son" (1969). Considered a landmark of experimental cinema and one of filmmaker Ken Jacobs' most popular films, "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" was created by re-photographing a 1905 paper print short film as a means of exploring the parameters of film art and the act of watching films. Through techniques ranging from slow and studied examinations of individual paper print images to probing experiments in manipulation of motion and light, Jacobs created a "structuralist film" masterpiece. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 2007. For more information about the National Film Registry and to nominate films for consideration visit www.loc.gov/film.

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