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((Short description|British Film Institute department))
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The '''BFI National Archive''' is a department of the [[British Film Institute]], and one of the largest [[film archives]] in the world. It was founded as the '''National Film Library''' in 1935; its first curator was [[Ernest Lindgren]]. In 1955, its name became the '''National Film Archive''', and, in 1992, the '''National Film and Television Archive'''. It was renamed BFI National Archive in 2006.

It collects, preserves, restores, and shares the [[film]]s and television programmes which have helped to shape and record British life and times since the development of cine film in the late 19th century. The majority of the collection is British originated material, but it also features internationally significant holdings from around the world. The Archive also collects films which feature key British actors and the work of British directors.

The collections themselves are accommodated on several sites. The [[Paul Getty|J. Paul Getty, Jr.]] Conservation Centre in [[Berkhamsted]], [[Hertfordshire]], named after its benefactor, is the base for much of the restoration work, while approximately 140 million feet of unstable [[Nitrocellulose#Film|nitrate film]] and all the master film collection held on acetate or other media is kept separately at a BFI storage site at [[Gaydon]] in [[Warwickshire]].<ref>((Cite news |date=29 August 2011 |title=Inside the BFI's new film storage facility |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-14665763 |access-date=15 March 2023))</ref>[[File:BFI New Master Film Store Gaydon - offices.jpg|thumb|The Master Film Store of the BFI National Archive, Gaydon, Warwickshire, opened 2011, designed by Cullinan Studio.]]

==Preservation==
[[File:Berkhamsted, The BFI National Archive Kingshill site - geograph.org.uk - 1413077.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|The BFI National Archive Kingshill at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire opened here in 1935. This is the site entrance; several large modern archive buildings lie behind the barn building. The site is officially known as the J Paul Getty Junior Conservation Centre.]]
[[Film preservation]] is an ongoing project among filmmakers, historians, archivists, museums, and [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofit organisations]] to rescue deteriorating [[film stock]] and preserve the recorded image. In recent years the BFI National Archive has completed a number of much anticipated restorations of a diverse range of film titles. This has included the [[Mitchell and Kenyon]] collection, which consists almost entirely of actuality films commissioned by travelling fairground operators for showing at local fairgrounds or other venues across the UK in the early part of the twentieth century.

Other notable recent restorations include:
*[[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s nine surviving silent feature films
*''[[Love,_Life_and_Laughter_(1923_film)|Love, Life and Laughter (1923)]]''
*''[[The Epic of Everest]]'' (1924)
*''[[The_Great_White_Silence|The Great White Silence (1924)]]''
*''[[Shooting Stars (1927 film)|Shooting Stars]]'' (dir. Anthony Asquith, 1927)
*''[[The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands]]'' (1927)
*''[[Shiraz_(film)|Shiraz: A Romance of India (1928)]]''
*''[[The_First_Born_(1928_film)|The First Born (1928)]]''
*''[[Underground (1928 film)|Underground]]'' (dir. [[Anthony Asquith]], 1928)
*''[[The_Informer_(1929_film)|The Informer (1929)]]''
*''[[The_Private_Life_of_Henry_VIII|The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)]]''
*''[[Hell_Drivers_(film)|Hell Drivers (1957)]]''
*''[[Night_of_the_Demon|Night of the Demon (1957)]]''
*''[[The_Day_the_Earth_Caught_Fire|The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)]]''
*''[[Women_in_Love_(film)|Women in Love (1969)]]''
*''[[Jabberwocky_(film)|Jabberwocky (1977)]]''

==Collections==
The collection now known as the BFI National Archive was founded as the National Film Library in 1935 by [[Ernest Lindgren]], who was the first curator. The BFI National Archive now comprises over 275,000 titles in total consisting of feature, non-fiction, short films (dating from 1894), 210,000 television programmes and some artists' films. It is one of the largest film collections in the world. Notable collections include:
*[[Mitchell and Kenyon]] collection
*[[GPO Film Unit]] collection
*[[Central Office of Information|Central Office of Information (COI)]] film collection
*[[Charlie Chaplin|Chaplin]] Out-Takes collection

The archive holds 20,000 silent films including, [[Cecil Hepworth]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1903 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1903), and actively collects artists' moving images. In addition to moving image materials the Special Collections hold the records of filmmakers and institutions. Significant collections include:
*[[Michael Powell]] and [[Emeric Pressburger]]
*[[Carol Reed]]
*[[David Lean]]
*[[Ken Loach]]
*[[Derek Jarman]]
*[[Alan Parker]]

Films and television programmes are acquired mainly by donation or, in the case of independent television, via funding direct from the TV companies. Emphasis is placed on British productions but whenever possible important and popular movies from overseas are also acquired. Films from the Archive have also acted as material for the BFI's programme of artists' moving image commissions, most notably through the programme of the [[BFI Gallery]], the contemporary art space dedicated to artists' moving image active at [[BFI Southbank]] between 2007 and 2011.<ref>Fabrizi, Elisabetta, 'The BFI Gallery Book', BFI, London 2011.</ref><ref>Fabrizi, Elisabetta, 'Is This Cinema?', in Balsom, E., Perks, S., Reynolds, L., (Ed.), 'Artists' Moving Image in Britain from 1989', Paul Mellon Foundation/Yale University Press, 2019.</ref>

==See also==
*[[National Film Registry]]((spaced ndash))the registry of films selected by the United States [[National Film Preservation Board]] for preservation in the [[Library of Congress]]
*[[List of archives in the United Kingdom]]
*[[Lists of film archives]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.bfi.org.uk/ British Film Institute]
*[https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive BFI National Archive]
*[http://www.filmarchives-online.eu/ European Film archives]

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