16-544: The National Film Archive may refer to: BFI National Archive , which was called the National Film Archive between 1955 and 1992 National Film Archive of India , a division of the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting National Film Archive of Japan , an independent administrative institution and museum Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute , known as
32-565: 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: The collection now known as the BFI National Archive was founded as
48-611: A small film studio in Walton-on-Thames , Hepworth Studios . The company produced about three films a week, sometimes with Hepworth directing. He was associated with Percy Stow from 1901-1903 who specialized in trick films. His film Rescued by Rover (1905), co-directed with Lewin Fitzhamon and starring a collie in the title role, was a huge financial success. The film is now regarded as an important development in film grammar , with shots being effectively combined to emphasize
64-614: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages BFI National Archive 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,
80-574: The British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios . In 1923 his company Hepworth Picture Plays went into receivership . His works include Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll 's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Hepworth was born in Lambeth , in present-day South London . His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth,
96-483: The National Film and Television Archive . It was renamed BFI National Archive in 2006. It collects, preserves, restores, and shares the films 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
112-507: 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. Cecil Hepworth Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director , producer and screenwriter . He was among the founders of
128-507: The National Film Archive from 1989 to 1995 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Film Archive . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Film_Archive&oldid=1215757128 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
144-608: 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: The archive holds 20,000 silent films including, Cecil Hepworth 's Alice in Wonderland (1903), and actively collects artists' moving images. In addition to moving image materials
160-666: The Rye (1923), the company went into receivership the next year. All of the original film negatives in Hepworth's possession were melted down by the receiver in order to sell the silver, and his feature films have been considered lost for many decades. However, an original 35mm. print of his 1920 film Helen of Four Gates was located in a film archive in Montreal, Quebec , Canada in 2008. The Cecil Hepworth Playhouse in Walton-on-Thames
176-594: The Special Collections hold the records of filmmakers and institutions. Significant collections include: 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
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#1732855526559192-455: The United States and Canada. The company continued making popular films into the 1920s, despite Hepworth's now unchanging and increasingly old-fashioned film style. Boosted by the international success of Alf's Button (1919), the company went public to fund a large studio development. He failed to raise the necessary capital and, also suffering the box office failure of Comin' Thro
208-476: The action. Hepworth was also one of the first to recognize the potential of film stars , both animal and human, with several recurring characters appearing in his films. By 1910, Hepworth was also the inventor of Vivaphone, an early sound on disk system for adding sound to motion pictures. The device used phonograph records to record and play back the sound. Hepworth's Vivaphone was distributed in Britain and also in
224-478: The master film collection held on acetate or other media is kept separately at a BFI storage site at Gaydon in Warwickshire . Film preservation is an ongoing project among filmmakers, historians, archivists, museums, and 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
240-454: 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 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 nitrate film and all
256-665: Was a famous magic lantern showman and author. Cecil Hepworth became involved in the early stages of British filmmaking, working for both Birt Acres and Charles Urban , and wrote the first British book on the subject in 1897. With his cousin Monty Wicks he set up the production company Hepworth and Co. (also known as "Hepwix" after the word mark in its trade logo), which was later renamed the Hepworth Manufacturing Company (officially: Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company), and then Hepworth Picture Plays . In 1899 they built
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