[ Music ] >> Sponsored by the
James Madison Council and the Institute of
Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment
for the Humanities. [ Music ] >> Roswell Encina: Welcome to
the National Book Festival. I'm Roswell Encina. Today, we are joined by actor,
philanthropist, and writer, the legendary Michael J. Fox. His new book is No
Time Like the Future. And welcome Michael J. Fox to
the National Book Festival. How are you? >> Michael J. Fox:
I'm fine Roswell. Thank you. How are you? >> Roswell Encina:
I'm doing great. So, I've got to ask you, we've
all been going through this, like the entire country, the whole world has collectively
experienced, you know, a very devastating thing. How are you and your family
coping through all this. >> Michael J. Fox: Well, it was
an amazing experience for us as it was for everybody
else, and it happened on so many different levels. I think, I wrote the book, much of the book
during the quarantine, while my family was
quarantining. And I called my producers,
not my editor, but my partner [inaudible]. I dictate to her, and she types
it up, so we're on, of course, virtual, we were on,
we were on Facetime. And I would just sit there
and dictate my book and read from my notes that only I can
read, and then she would write, and it got to where I
would leave the room and go get a class of water for
myself, and I'd bring one back for her, because I
couldn't, she was in this box, but she was in the room with me. And it became that way
with everybody in my life. My mother, who is in Canada,
and I'm just, people existing in other realities, and it
takes some getting used to. But it was an interesting
time because it was very, it was such a personal
memoir at a time when my concerns were
global, in my own world, my concerns were global, but my concerns professionally
were very personal. And then, I think one
complemented the other, the experiences intermingled. But my family and I were
in quarantine, took shelter for months, months, and it
was really an amazing time. We did a lot of reading. We did a lot of talking. We did a lot of eating. We did a lot of sharing. And it was really,
a real privilege. And all the time we were aware
of what it was for other people and what they were experiencing, people [inaudible] never
seeing loved ones again, and it was a difficult
time for the country, but I think people
are coming through it. >> Roswell Encina: Yeah, I know
you've written several books through the course
of your career. Why did you decide
this book at this time? >> Michael J. Fox: This
book just kind of happened. I was going to write
a book about golf. I read a book about golf. It gave me a nice kind
of second wind in terms of socially an athletically,
and it was a nice thing for that point in my life. So, I was reading this book
about golf, making notes and that, but my notes
would kind of go off golf, and they'd start to go out
[inaudible] about Parkinson's, because I was going to try
and do this Venn diagram of golf and Parkinson's. And you know, they both suck,
and they both are really hard. And so, it started
to go that way. Then I got this spinal
thing, a tumor on my spine, and I had that operated on. Then I broke my arm, and in the
recovery from that, the spinal, I had to learn to walk again,
and I fell and hurt myself. And I just, I found my optimism, my much valued optimism
leaving the scene quickly. I mean it was just vacating me. I went into lemonade business. It just really reached
a dark point for me. And as I experienced it
and I came through it, with a lot of lessons
learned from Gus, my dog, and my father-in-law, not
necessarily in that order, but so many people
in my life, my wife, Tracy, my kids, my friends. I saw, some of the, we'll
get to it eventually in the conversation,
but with gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable. I just got that. It just came to me, and I
said, that's what it is. You can get through
anything [inaudible]. >> Roswell Encina: I
know that was your advice from your father-in-law
when he said that. How much did that sustain
you and your family through this past year? >> Michael J. Fox: A lot. Because I really
started to see it. I mean it wasn't just words. It was like I could see my
gratitude and I could see it in an offhand remark of one of
my children one day, [inaudible] but some remark, and again, I
just felt, well, that's amazing. It's a shame that all the stuff
in Minneapolis that happened, in the middle of the COVID. [inaudible] made such profound
pronouncements about it and [inaudible] of their
solidarity and their concern, and I was just like, wow. This is, I hate that
this is happening, but I love that it's
bringing this out in my kids and bringing this out
among their friends. It was just an interesting
time because for every rock, you turn it, and you see
what's on the other side. It could be gold
on the other side. It's just, and we have to
especially think that way now, because it's so easy to
make a negative choice, to make a negative turn,
and we just really, really need to make positive,
forthright, forward step. >> Roswell Encina: And I know,
you mentioned it earlier, a lot of people are familiar
with the term, you know, when life gives you
lemons, you make lemonade. At the very beginning of
the book you said, you know, I'm out of the lemonade
business. I mean if you can't sustain,
you know, being optimistic and positive, how are the rest
of us mere mortals able to go through the rest of this. So -- >> Michael J. Fox: Well, I
said -- I'm sorry, go ahead. >> Roswell Encina: No,
I was going to ask you like what's your advice to
everyone who are still suffering or languishing as we go get to
the other side of this pandemic? >> Michael J. Fox: Well, I
would say whether it has to do with the pandemic or
whether it has to do with ancillary side issues
that come up, employment issues or family issues or any,
education issues, is just that, [inaudible] I don't mean
to glib, but accept it. Accept, see what it is, look
at what it is, don't be afraid to look at it, and
don't be afraid to look at all the nasty corners
of it and all the stuff that [inaudible], and don't
look at what's not there. Look at what's there. It doesn't take up
all your life. I doesn't take up
all your strength. There's still room for you
to thrive around the edges, and eventually that'll
shrink the central problem. It's just, it's just holding
onto that, holding onto that. Like I said, that's
the other thing. You need to be grateful. You need to be grateful. You may not like your
working conditions, but be grateful you have a job, and then you [inaudible]
from there. Or you may not like teaching
your kids over the computer but be grateful that they're
still in school in some fashion. I mean it's all, my
position, my circumstance, when I [inaudible] I said that
about lemonade, and I said a lot of other things, I was sitting
under the phone on the wall in my kitchen with my shattered
arm, I shattered my humerus. It was all torn up and
useless, and I'm waiting for the ambulance, and
I called my assistant, and she called an ambulance. And so, I had this time. It was kind of like the young, I don't remember what I was
saying, the young student under the [inaudible], you know. I was on the kitchen floor
or something [inaudible] with a broken arm,
and I just said, who am I to tell
people to be optimistic. Because I'm miserable right now. I'm really angry,
and I'm frustrated with myself, and I'm angry. I'm not angry at anybody. I'm angry at me for
letting this happen. The Parkinson's wasn't my fault. I couldn't do anything
about that. The spinal tumor
wasn't my fault. But the falling was my fault,
because I was not careful, and then by not being careful,
I was not being respectful to my doctors and my health
care people that help me, my family that stuck by me through my rehabilitation
and my friends. And I just felt that
I'd let them all down. And I thought, I thought, I
let the Parkinson's community down because I'm telling them to
chin up, and it'll all be okay and look forward to the cure,
and then here I am whining and drooling on the
floor of my kitchen. So, that was the low point. But it's okay to go there. I mean that's what I learned. And so, it's good to go
there, it's good to go to that low point and really
look around and get help if you need it and find
answers to your questions. But what you can't do
is run away from it. You can't [inaudible] happen. >> Roswell Encina: You have
an amazing support system between your wife, your kids,
your in-law, your friends, your golfing buddies,
and your dog, Gus. You know, on behalf of
the Library of Congress, we want to send our
condolences to you and your family regarding Gus. How big did Gus play,
your family play in bringing you back up? >> Michael J. Fox: But Gus
was, my son went to college, it was the year that President
Obama was elected, 2008, and he, and I was joking, I was with
my three daughters and my wife, and I was drowning
in a sea of estrogen. I had no male contacts
in the house. So, we were on vacation at
Martha's Vineyard, and I saw and ad on a bulletin board
outside a community store, and it was for this dog. They called [inaudible]
time, but it was this, you could tell it was a puppy, but you could tell it
was going to be huge. And I liked the idea
of a huge dog. So, I took note of
it, and I went home. And Tracy had, she was on
a bike ride [inaudible] and saw this billboard. I said [inaudible] you saw that? And she said, yeah. And I said, well,
let's go find this dog. So, we tracked down the owner
and went and saw the dog, and I just immediately knew. And he, as I took him,
and he got bigger, he was 30 pounds when I got him. He was 120 pounds
at his biggest. And he would, he knew that
I had issues, and he would, he never jumped on me. He never even pushed me. He never put weight on me. He was always really
careful with other people. I have these pictures
right here. Pictures here of when I
would, when I would work out and do yoga and stuff. If I was complaining that the
exercise was too strenuous and I made a noise, he'd get
really concerned, and he'd come over and he'd sit on the mat, and he just like,
he protected me. I was doing it virtually
with my trainer and my physical therapist over
the voice, Facebook, Facetime, so he would hear that voice, and he'd come running
in to protect me. And that's Gus in a nutshell. >> Roswell Encina:
I do want to ask you about your father-in-law,
Tracy's father. He gave you some great advice
that you talk about in the book. He says, with gratitude,
optimism becomes sustainable. I think those are
very wise words that we could all
kind of hold onto. How much did he mean to you and
how much did his word help you? >> Michael J. Fox:
He was a great man. He was really, he was a really
pure -- his optimism and his, his optimism and his
positive energy was so real. There was nothing at
all synthetic about it. He just [inaudible]
it gets better. It gets better, and he,
when I had to [inaudible]. One of my favorite things I
ever had to say in my life was, sentences I ever got
to utter was, Steve, this is President Obama. President Obama, this is
my father-in-law, Steve. And it was like, that
was a great moment. So, you lived to please
to him, but he a law firm, a law practice, and he would
help people make decisions, life decision, whether
to buy a house, whether to keep your old job or
get a new job and do whatever, make big decisions in life,
about the children or whatever, and he had a sign on his desk that said professional
fear remover. And that the best description
of him I could think of. He could just, could zone in
on your fear and alleviate it by telling you the
possibilities that you had, that you didn't even
know you had, the capability to
do certain things. I mean you can say no to people. You can say yes to things. He'd say get the house. Get the new job. Have another kid. All positive stuff, and he
helped me out a lot during when, when I first diagnosed, and I
was struggling with the idea that I'd married this beautiful,
vivacious, amazing, intelligent, brilliant woman,
and then saddled her with this potential
health outcome. And she was really great, basically she's been
really supportive. But he said, don't worry,
you know, I told him, I said, I feel bad for your daughter
because she's in this situation. And he said, [inaudible]. >> Roswell Encina: I was at a
commencement over the weekend, and somebody asked the students who were graduating what have
they learned from this past year or has it changed them. What do you tell your kids
in your optimistic way of what happens now post
this pandemic for them. >> Michael J. Fox:
My thinking about, it was a rare opportunity
to, like I said, to think of, to be by yourself and
spend a lot of quality time with certain people and a lot
of time by yourself and enjoy that time, but at the same
time be developing a concern and an empathy for other people because of what you know
they're going through. Like being in quarantine, protected from it didn't make it
any less, you know, oh, great, we're safe, we're safe, but look at what others are
going through. And I think that any time
there's a burst of empathy like that, any time
there's a burst of awareness about other people's
experience on this planet and what they're going through
and what their needs are and what their fears are
and what their goals are and their wishes
and their ambitions, and we can tap into that. We can rally around
common thoughts and achieve great things. So, the thing about this
country is it's just, we're so on the cusp of
greatness and on the cusp of disaster at the same
time, and it's just, it just, you just know. If you're a positive person,
an optimistic person like me, you just know, you just
take that one thing that just pushes us over the
line, and our lives will be so much easier and safer
and more what we want them. >> Roswell Encina: It goes
well with what you wrote in your book, you say that
can you be an optimist and a realist at the same time? Have you found the
answer to that? Can we? >> Michael J. Fox: Yeah,
you can be a realist and an optimist at
the same time. In fact, I think it even
requires being a realist to be an optimist. You have to look at what
the ground is around you. You have to be real
about it and say, these facts are nondisputable. These are the realities
as we see them. So, we broach that reality
with respect for it and respect for it in that it's the
truth, and then we can act on it, and we can see. I always picture it as this
block, you know, there's room around it, there's room
around any problem. And in that room, in that
margin, you can find answers. >> Roswell Encina: I'm
a child of the '80s. You know, I grew up
watching you on Family Ties. Grew up watching the Back
to the Future movies. So, your legacy in cinema
is clearly cemented. You know, here at the Library
of Congress, we added Back to the Future to the National
Film Registry a couple years ago, and every year we
show films on the lawn, and Back to the Future
is probably one of the most requested films. Until this day, why do you
think that those films, especially Back to the
Future still resonate, and what would you like to
tell the fans of the film here. >> Michael J. Fox: Well, you
know, I think of it in terms of, it's funny, I just
thought, when you said that, people sit on the lawn and watch
movies, is that what you said? >> Roswell Encina: Yes. >> Michael J. Fox: And
there's a song by James Taylor that for a lot of
reasons I relate to. It's called That's Why I'm Here. And he says, fortune and
fame is a curious game. Perfect strangers
call you by name. Pay good money to hear fire and
rain again and again and again. Some are like summer coming
back every year, got your baby, got your blanket, got
your bucket of beer. I can break into a
grin from ear to ear because that's why I'm here. And I just feel that. It's just such a privilege to
be a part of people's lives who you don't know and then,
and to inform [inaudible] in their lives, whether it's through television
or film or whatever. And Back to the Future is like,
when I was a kid in Canada, we had like two channels, and
you got what you got on the TV, but every year around Christmas
time they showed the Wizard of Oz, and I'd watch
it every year. And we had a black and white TV,
so we never had the transition to color, and it was lost on me. But I loved the flying monkeys. And I was having a conversation
with someone about Back to the Future and how
transgenerational it is now, how young kids love it,
and old people love it, and it's just one of those
movies that struck a chord. And I say, yeah, it's because
I'm now a flying monkey. >> Roswell Encina: Now,
we know that your film and TV legacy is clearly
cemented, but I should say that one of your biggest
legacies is the Michael J. Fox Foundation. You've raised more
that a billion dollars for Parkinson's research. Do the people that you meet through the foundation
motivate you, inspire you? I know people like Jimmy Choi
that you mentioned in the book, and just everyday people that
you could meet on the street, like at the Cinnabon
at a rest stop? >> Michael J. Fox:
Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing to feel connected
to people that you don't know. It's like I said, that
line, curious game. Perfect strangers
call you by name. And they're sincere
in their approach. And people, I've never had
nasty people [inaudible]. I've been lucky. I've always had people
be very nice to me. I think that with
the foundation, it originally started out that
I wanted to focus on research, and I felt that, I talked
to a lot of scientists, I was at a different point in my
life when I was deciding whether to grind out my career a little
longer or get right to work on the foundations work
and promote science. So, I decided to focus on
science, and we figured talking to scientists, that the
science was ahead of the money. That if we could raise the
funds that it could [inaudible] to worthwhile projects. And that happened
[inaudible] when you kind of [inaudible] kind of ways
to [inaudible] problems and correct other problems
and create a good relationship with the science community and
with pharma and all that stuff. But along the line, I realized that there was this patient
community that was waiting to be activated, waiting to be
involved, and waiting to be able to be a part of their own
rescue and to be the answer that they were looking for and [inaudible] all the
clinical trials [inaudible] in collecting the personal
data, personal information about their life experiences. And it became a very
patient-driven foundation, and then it started to flourish. And now, because when
I first disclosed that I had Parkinson's, it was considered pretty
much an old person's dz, and so therefore, because those
people weren't necessarily vibrant and active in the
community on a daily basis, we didn't see it [inaudible] in a big way became [inaudible]
be an example [inaudible] population and that we had
the time and the [inaudible] and the energy to
facilitate that. I think their therapies
[inaudible]. So, it just, it exploded
into a patient a little bit. And Jimmy Choi, who you
mentioned, American ninja, he's an amazing guy, and he's
an example of never quit, never give up, and he's going
to be a part of the answer. >> Roswell Encina:
You say in your book, if you don't take risk,
there's no room for luck. Do you think your
optimism helps you, carry you through
making tough decisions, whether it's your career
or medical decisions? >> Michael J. Fox: Yeah. I think you just, I always
feel that, well, one thing, I think I'm a good judge
of people, of doctors, of people involved in
the foundation or people that become available
to me to work with. And I've been really lucky,
again, with some people, some directors and maybe
others wouldn't consider that I thought were great
and turned out great. And you know, without the
risk, you don't get the luck. That the, some material
that I thought was, like writing this book, just
writing this book about, again, in the middle of a global
pandemic I'm writing about my navel, and it's
a risk, but it turned out that people related to it
on both terms, both levels, that it was about my navel,
but it was about the world too. And so, you just got to
take a risk, and it's, pouring this stuff out,
because you're like, oh, I [inaudible] that. And it's one of those
beautiful things about writing. Writing has been a
great thing for me to, as things [inaudible] away,
I mean I used to draw a lot, I can't draw now because
my hands turn around. I don't play the
guitar as anymore. I don't hike and run and boat
and bike and all that stuff. But I enjoy my family. I enjoy reading. I enjoy writing. Writing has become a real,
it's become everything to me. It's just so great to take
an idea and look at it from 10 different ways and
realize that there's one way to express the purity of that
idea if you're determined to find it, and if you come
even close, you just sit back and [inaudible] for the day. >> Roswell Encina: This wouldn't
be the National Book Festival if I don't ask you what
books have inspired you or what books have you been
reading during the pandemic. >> Michael J. Fox: During the
pandemic I wasn't reading a lot because I was writing, but
books that have inspired me over the years, I
like Cormac McCarthy. I like All the Pretty Horses. I like The Bird Artist, Norman
Howard or Howard Norman, I keep getting his name mixed
up, but he's a terrific writer, and that's a great book
about [inaudible] of art. And I like, and I'm
always a sucker for whatever nonfiction
[inaudible]. I'm reading a book right now by, I wish I could remember
his name, he's I think a Harvard professor
or a Princeton professor about running the
Trump administration through the filter
of Shakespeare and comparing the events to the events [inaudible]
and other things. So, there's always
something interesting to read. >> Roswell Encina: When you
were growing up or as a kid, what books opened
the world to you? >> Michael J. Fox:
When I was growing up? Well, I loved, I discovered in like fifth grade Agatha
Christie, and I just got hooked on Agatha Christie, and I
read And Then There Were None, and then I just read
as many as I could. So, I was like this 10-year-old
kid in Canada reading about [inaudible]
in pastoral England and the butler was doing it with
a candlestick in the pantry. And it just captivated me,
and then I kind of [inaudible] into Tolkien and started to read
all those books and The Hobbit and the ring cycle, and it just,
I just, my world just expanded. I mean it's just like books, I
have books, I don't even think of it, like this room, I don't
think I have any books in, but I have like [inaudible]
books in this room. And this isn't even one of my
rooms with a lot of books in it. These books are everywhere
in my life. I have to get a book to get a
book that's underneath a book. And it's just, and you
can't replace that. I do a lot of your books. I do, you know, [inaudible]
but it's definitely the book. It smells like a book and it
looks like a book and it reads like a book, and it just makes
you feel good like a book. >> Roswell Encina:
You see it firsthand through your brother-in-law
Michael Pollan and your friend Harlan. How do you think books
create a community, of bringing people together,
whether it's a book club or the National Book
Festival, or you know, just reading as a family? >> Michael J. Fox: Well,
it's a changing idea. My wife had her book club last
night, and it was the first time in a year and a half that
they actually got together, were able to sit across from
each other and drink their wine and talk about their books,
and it was like, it was like, she was talking about it. There was a look on
her face just like, like this was a great
thing, that she got to have her book club
with her friends and talk about the books they had read. And they had only been able to
do by Zoom but being together and sitting around and
passing wine to each other and pass bread to each other and touch the books
and pass them out. It's a great exchange of ideas. It's a chance to get an
idea, form your own opinion, form your own feelings about
it, discover your own feelings about it, and then share them, and they influence
other people's feelings and other people's
feelings influence yours. But it's all, it's
all a community, and books are a great
community, binding [inaudible]. >> Roswell Encina: After
finishing your book, do you believe you're back
into the lemonade business? >> Michael J. Fox:
Oh, absolutely. Pink and yellow. >> Roswell Encina: Yay. We do have a surprise for you. You were talking about earlier
about some of your doctors. So, I am lucky enough that
I have some good friends at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, so I have a short
video from someone who literally has your back. Let's look at this video. >> [laughter] Oh, my God. This is amazing. Michael, I want to
congratulate you on an absolutely amazing
book, and as an American icon, you have given so many people
hope and joy in their lives, and I think the message
is quite clear. There is no time
like the future. I wish you the best and look
forward to seeing you soon. >> Michael J. Fox:
He's a good guy. >> Roswell Encina: That is Dr.
Nicholas Theodore, who operated on your spine in Baltimore. How do you feel seeing
him today. >> Michael J. Fox: He was
like I was talking about like when you know when
you meet people and you just know
they're the right person. I was talking to him, we
were going through the mess that was my spine, and
[inaudible], and he was going through what he could do
and what he couldn't do, and what could be faced,
and what couldn't be faced. And then, we were
talking about the fact that other surgeons weren't
willing to take it on, and he was willing
to take it on. And he said, he said,
well, I understand where they're coming
from though. He said, who wants to be the one who puts Michael
Fox in a wheelchair. And I said, I love
that you said that, and I knew in that second,
like he just got it. He got that it was real, that this was not a
make believe thing. This was a real event that
I was going to go through, and he was going
to get me through. And he began to instill trust
in me that he would get me through it, and he did. And we've been good friends
and followed up ever since. He's a good man. But he was reading all his bits, and then when I first
saw a photograph of him reading a book, I
thought, here's a book, my surgeon reading
about my surgeon. He [inaudible] his bits. >> Roswell Encina:
I want to end it by saying I know you've
got a birthday coming up in a couple weeks. Happy birthday from
everyone here in Washington. [ Inaudible Comment ] And I wanted to, you know,
if you had to go back and tell your, you
know, 20-something self, what advice would you give him? >> Michael J. Fox: Slow down. Slow down and just enjoy. I was racing around so much when
I was younger, and you know, things happen for a reason. I would never necessarily
say it's all planned out, but there's stuff to be
learned from everything. There's additions with
every subtraction. With every subtraction
you gain something. It fills that space, and if
you're conscious [inaudible] of it, you can fill it
with really good stuff. When I was a kid, I would fill
it with parties and alcohol and fame and all that
stuff, and now, it's family and love and pleasure, bliss. >> Roswell Encina:
Well, we are blessed to have you today, Michael. The book is No Time
Like the Future. Welcome to the National
Book Festival. We hope to see you soon. You and your family have an
open invitation to come here to the Library of Congress. >> Michael J. Fox:
We'll take you up on it. Can't wait. >> Roswell Encina:
Thank you so much. >> Michael J. Fox: Thank you. >> LeVar Burton: We hope you've
enjoyed this conversation, and now, we'd like
you to hear more from the Library's own
experts on this topic. >> Kelly Chisholm: Welcome
to the Library of Congress. My name is Kelly Chisholm, and
I am a moving image archivist in the National Audiovisual
Conservation Center at the Library of Congress. The National Audiovisual
Conservation Center's Packard Campus where I work is
located in Culpeper, Virginia, and it houses the
Moving Image Section, the recorded sound section, and
three preservation laboratories for film, video,
and audio materials. The campus houses nearly
nine million items in total, over three and a half million
recorded sound elements that range from wax
cylinders created in 1900 to newly released podcasts, and almost two million
moving image items that come from the 80-year history of
television, the 40-year history of home video games, and the over 120-year history
of motion pictures. I have one of those items
from motion picture history with me today, a
35-millimeter film print of the 1985 movie
Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring National Book
Festival featured author Michael J. Fox. This print was donated to the
collection by Universal Pictures to commemorate the
edition of this film to the National Film
Registry in 2007. The National Film Registry
selects 25 films each year, showcasing the range
and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness
for its preservation. On the surface, a
science fiction comedy, it manages to comment on
nostalgia, generation gaps, family folklore, and growing up. And in the center of that
movie is Marty McFly, a teenage every man thrust
into an unbelievable situation and played with warmth and
humor by Michael J. Fox. It's hard to underestimate
the impact this film has had on the generation of
children that grew up with it, many of whom are now
parents and showing it to their own children. Phrases like, "great
Scott," "88 miles per hour," and "you built a time machine
out of the DeLorean" are a part of the American cultural
lexicon. They are also phrases
that resonate in my head for a very particular reason. When I was in high school in
the mid '90s, my very creative and enterprising
friend, Rob Jeffers, made his own remix version
of Back to the Future, none too small a feat
in the mid-1990s. The result, which we watched
on a particularly long bus ride for marching band, was silly
and haunting and funny, and it was the kind of thing
that someone would only do with a movie that everyone
already knew so well, but you wanted to remix it to see what else you
could discover within. Back to the Future was
so ubiquitous and beloved in my own childhood
that Marty McFly saying, "you built a time machine out of
a DeLorean" echoes in my brain to this day, just as it echoed over Rob Jeffers' remixed
version of the movie that he showed a bus full
of teenagers 25 years ago. Back to the Future
is one of 800 films on the National Film Registry
chosen for their contributions to American film heritage. You can find more about the
film registry on the Library of Congress website, loc.gov. On the Library website, you can
also find the national screening room and the national
jukebox, which makes some of those nine million
items from the moving image and recorded sound
collection accessible online. [ Music ]
