British Film Institute (BFI) (Established 1933)
Dates
- Existence: Established 1933
Biography
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation, which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BIF was established in 1933 and is currently mainly funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The BFI holds the largest film archive in the world. It runs the BFI Southbank and London IMAX cinema and distributes archival and cultural cinema to other venues across the UK.
The BFI offers a range of education initiatives to support the teaching of film and media studies in schools and in 2012 it created the BFI Film Academy Network for young people aged between 16 and 25.
The BFI runs the annual London Film Festival along with BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival and the youth-orientated Future Film Festival. It also runs its own monthly publication ‘Sight & Sound’ and produces films on Blu-ray, DVD and books. It runs the BFI National Library and maintains the BFI Film & TV Database and Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT).
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Birt Acres Collection
This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.
Film, 1895
Copies of the Opening of the Kiel Canal film.
Letters to Mrs Sidney Birt Acres from the British Film Institute, 1981 - 1982
Letters to Mrs S. Birt Acres from the British Film Institute.
Opening of The Kiel Canal Film, 1895
Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film, Tom Merry lightening cartoonist and other films made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.
Opening of The Kiel Canal Film, 1895
Copy of the Opening of Kiel Canal film made by Birt Acres, 35mm. Copy produced by BFI, silent, black and white.
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- Archival Object 4
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Business 1