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It runs the BFI National Library, a reference library, and maintains the SIFT film Jaws film (Summary of Information on Film and Television) database, which contains credits, synopses and other data on global film and TV. The second largest source is commercial activity such as receipts from ticket sales at BFI Southbank or the BFI London Imax (2007, £5m), sales of DVDs, etc.
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MOMI was acclaimed internationally and set new standards for education through entertainment, but subsequently it did not receive the high levels of continuing investment that might have enabled it to keep pace with technological developments and ever-rising audience expectations. This was updated in 2000, and in the same year the newly-established UK Film Council took responsibility for providing the BFI s annual grant-in-aid (government subsidy) and acting, alongside the Charity Commission and the Privy Council, as its regulator. In 1988 the BFI opened the London Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) on the South Bank.
The Archive also collects films which feature key British actors and the work of British directors. The BFI publishes the monthly Sight and Sound magazine as well as DVDs and books. The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to: The BFI runs the BFI Southbank (formerly the National Film Theatre (NFT)) and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
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Thus control of educational film production passed to the National Committee for Visual Aids in Education and the British Film Academy assumed control for promoting production. The institute received a Royal Charter in 1983. Thirdly, grants and sponsorship of around £5m are obtained from various sources, including National Lottery funding grants, private sponsors and through donations (J.
Despite its foundation resulting from a recommendation in a report on Film and National Life, at that time the institute was a private company, though it has received public money throughout its history - from the Privy Council and Treasury until 1965 and the various culture departments since then. The institute was restructured following the Radcliffe Report of 1948 which recommended that it should concentrate on developing the appreciation of filmic art, rather than creating film itself. BFI Southbank (the National Film Theatre screens and the Studio) shows films from all over the world particularly critically-acclaimed historical & specialised films that may not otherwise get a cinema showing. The BFI runs the annual London Film Festival and London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival along with the Future Film Festival in partnership with BBC Blast. The BFI offers a range of education initiatives, in particular to support the teaching of film and media studies in schools The BFI maintains the world s largest film archive, the BFI National Archive, previously called National Film Library (1935-1955), National Film Archive (1955-1992) and National Film and Television Archive (1993-2006).
The largest is public money allocated through the UK Film Council from the funds given to it by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Museum was temporarily closed in 1999 when the BFI stated that it would be re-sited.
The archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles and around 625,000 television programmes. This redevelopment was itself then further delayed. The BFI is currently managed on a day-to-day basis by its director, Amanda Nevill.
The BFI has been awarded funds for the creation of a National Film Centre. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1933-1936) Sir Charles Cleland (1936-1937) Sir George Clerk (1938-1939) William Brass, 1st Baron Chattisham (1939-1945) Patrick Gordon Walker (1946-1948) Cecil Harmsworth King (1948-1952) S. It is expected that the bulk of this money will pay for long overdue development of the BFI National Archive facilities in Hertfordshire and elsewhere.
He succeeded the late film director Anthony Minghella, who was chair from 2003 until 31 December 2007. The chair of the board is appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport who receives recommendations from the UK Film Council.
The IMAX has the largest cinema screen in the UK, and shows popular recent releases and short films showcasing its technology, which includes 3D screenings and 12,000 watts of digital surround sound. These appointments are subject to ratification by the UK Film Council. The BFI operates with three sources of income.
The current chair is Greg Dyke, who took office on 1 March 2008. In 2000, it published a high-profile list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, as voted for by a range of industry figures. The much-delayed redevelopment of the National Film Theatre finally took place in 2007, creating in the rebranded BFI Southbank new education spaces, a gallery, and a pioneering mediatheque which for the first time enabled the public to gain access, free of charge, to some of the otherwise inaccessible treasures in the National Film & Television Archive.
It also has a substantial collection of around 7 million film and TV stills. The BFI has co-produced a number of television series featuring footage from the BFI National Archive, in partnership with the BBC: The institute was founded in 1933. Brown (1933-1936) Oliver Bell (1936-1949) Denis Forman (1949-1955) James Quinn (1955-1964) Stanley Reed (1964-1972) Keith Lucas (1972-1978) Anthony Smith (1979-1987) Wilf Stevenson (1988-1997) John Woodward (1997-1998) Jon Teckman (1998-2002) Adrian Wootton (acting, 2002-2003) Amanda Nevill (2003- ) Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport · Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism · Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State (three) Royal Parks Agency Channel Four Television Corporation · Historic Royal Palaces · Horserace Totalisator Board British Broadcasting Corporation · S4C · Welsh Fourth Channel Authority Arts Council of England · Big Lottery Fund · British Film Institute · British Library · British Museum · Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment · English Sports Council · Football Licensing Authority · Geffrye Museum · English Heritage · Historic Royal Palaces · Horniman Museum · Horserace Betting Levy Board · Imperial War Museum · Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester · Museums, Libraries and Archives Council · National Gallery · National Heritage Memorial Fund · National Lottery Commission · National Maritime Museum · National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside · National Museum of Science and Industry · National Portrait Gallery · Natural History Museum · Olympic Delivery Authority · Olympic Lottery Distributor · Registrar of Public Lending Right · Royal Armouries Museum · Sir John Soane s Museum · Sport England · Tate · UK Film Council · UK Sport · Victoria and Albert Museum · VisitBritain · Wallace Collection Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites · Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships · Advisory Committee on the Government Art Collection · Advisory Council on Libraries · English Marketing Advisory Board · Legal Deposit Advisory Panel · Public Lending Right Advisory Committee · Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest · Spoliation Advisory Panel · Theatres Trust · Treasure Valuation Committee Horserace Betting Levy Tribunal .
The mediatheque has proved to be the most successful element of this redevelopment, and there are plans to roll out a network of them across the UK. An announcement of a £25 million capital investment in the National Archive Strategy was made by Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport at the opening night of the 2007 London Film Festival. Supreme decision-making authority rests with a chairman and a board of up to 14 governors.
In 2007, this funding amounted to approximately £16m.
