It might not be "to infinity and beyond," but Woody, Buzz and the rest of the Toy Story crew have been slated for near-perpetual preservation.

Pixar's classic 'toon is among the latest batch of 25 films earmarked for inclusion into the National Film Registry.

The new inductees were chosen from roughly 1,000 films nominated by the public, with the final selections chosen by the staff from the Library of Congress' motion picture division as well as advisers from the National Film Preservation Board.

According to Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, the list is designed to reflect the diversity and richness of American cinema and increase awareness for its conservation.

"The films we choose are not necessarily the 'best' American films ever made or the most famous, but they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance--and in many cases, represent countless other films also deserving of recognition," Billington said.

Toy Story, for example, made the cut not simply because of its family-friendly vibe but for being the first full-length animated feature created entirely by computer technology.

Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's 1980s' opus Fast Times at Ridgemont High also nabbed a spot on this year's list, being heralded as a "cultural film icon." The teen flick revolutionized the youth genre and featured a large cast of soon-to-be famous players, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold and ultimate surfer dude Sean Penn.

Just in time for the holidays, the registry will also included the timeless classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Also making the cut: 1962's Oscar-nominated song-and-dance spectacular The Music Man; perennial midnight movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); Paul Newman's 1967 egg-quaffing classic Cool Hand Luke; the 1971 Oscar-winning cop flick The French Connection, featuring a brilliant performance from Gene Hackman and what's widely regarded as the best car-chase scene ever to hit celluloid; the James Dean- and Elizabeth Taylor-fronted Giant (1956); A Raisin in the Sun (1961), featuring a who's-who cast of the civil rights era, led by Sidney Poitier; Frank Capra's do-gooder newsman yarn Power of the Press (1928); the Paul Newman-Robert Redford Best Picture-winning crime caper The Sting (1973); the inner-city youth basketball documentary Hoop Dreams (1994); and 1933's notorious melodrama Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a worker who uses her feminine wiles to climb the corporate ladder.

Of course, more lighthearted fare also was tapped for inclusion, such as two silent era classics: Buster Keaton's final silent film, 1928's The Cameraman, and Hands Up!, a 1926 romp featuring a rubber-faced Raymond Griffith as a Confederate soldier.

"The selection of a film, I stress, is not an endorsement of its ideology or content, but rather a recognition of the film's importance to American film and cultural history and to history in general," Billington said.

Which is why several inductees would be better classified as film footage than actual movies.

Case in point: the list's earliest entry, 1906's San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906, is a landmark documentary featuring shaky footage of the natural disaster. Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest also made the cut; the 1910 recording of the prize fight prompted intense discourse on race relations after the former white champ threw in the towel after being pummeled by his African-American foe.

Rounding out the list of newest entries: the regional documentary The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975), chronicling the natural disaster that killed hundreds and left thousands of West Virginians homeless; Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, May 1940, a set of field sound and video recordings made of religious services; 1929's experimental film H2O, characterized as "a tone poem to water"; the most successful exploitation film of all time, 1944's sex-ed flick Mom and Dad; and 1966's cinema v?rit? civil rights documentary A Time for Burning.

This year's list brings the National Registry's total film count to 425 since its establishment in 1988.