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Also Known As	AFI
Date	1967 - present
Areas Of Involvement	film • television • AFI 100 Greatest American Films of All Time • AFI Fest
Related People	Charlton Heston

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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman stand close together in costume on the set of Casablanca, with a film camera and crew visible in the foreground.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch stands in a crowded courtroom in a scene from the film To Kill a Mockingbird, with spectators watching from benches and a balcony.

Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.

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