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18 unusual facts about British Film Institute


Advanced Passenger Train

Republished 2006 by the British Film Institute on DVD as part of British Transport Films Collection (Vol. 3): Running A Railway.

Amanda Nevill

Amanda Elizabeth Nevill (born 1957) is an English arts administrator and is the Chief Executive of the British Film Institute.

British Rail APT-E

British Transport Films (1975) E for Experimental republished 2006 by the British Film Institute on DVD as part of British Transport Films Collection (Vol. 3): Running A Railway.

Cecil Levita

Levita had alleged that Richard S. Lambert, the founding editor of The Listener was unfit to serve on the board of the British Film Institute (on which his wife served) because Lambert had published an article about a house which was supposedly haunted by Gef the talking mongoose.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas

He was the chairman of the Welsh Language Board between 1994 and 1999, and is a former member of the Arts Council of Wales and the British Film Institute where he was Chairman of Screen between 1992 and 1999.

Gaydon

A disused military base near Gaydon is also home to special vaults housing the highly flammable nitrate film elements of the British Film Institute's BFI National Archive, the world's largest archive of film and television.

Juvenile Liaison

After its production, the first film was banned by the BFI for many years; Juvenile Liaison 1 revolved mainly around the activities of Sergeant Ray, whose preventative measures when dealing with young trouble makers fell mainly in the strong-arm category of approach.

Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

A bookseller who rose to become managing director and later chairman of the publisher Faber and Faber, Evans also served as a governor of the British Film Institute.

Nocturna Artificialia

This short film in color, with some parts in just black and white, was originally released in a 16mm format by the British Film Institute Production Board.

O.C. and Stiggs

The film, a raunchy teen comedy described by the British Film Institute as "probably Altman's least successful film," was shot in 1985, but not released until long after post-production was completed.

Pete Wiggs

In 2013 Wiggs was commissioned by the BFI to write a new score for 1904 silent ghost story The Mistletoe Bough directed by Percy Stow

Peter Campus

In 2009, Peter Campus had a major retrospective show, Opticks at the British Film Institute in London.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

English-market DVDs are available, distributed by Milestone Films and available in NTSC R1 (from Image) and PAL R2 (from the BFI).

The Girl in the Crowd

The film has been declared "Missing, Believed Lost" by the British Film Institute.

The Other Side of the Underneath

BFI DVD Booklet for The Other Side of the Underneath Various Authors BFI 2009

The British Film Institute restored and remastered the film for DVD and Blu-ray release on July 13 2009.

This Week of Grace

Thought to have been lost, it was loaned to the British Film Institute as a result of its 2010 search for missing films, and a copy was made for the National Archive.

Wheeler Winston Dixon

His films have also been screened at the British Film Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, The San Francisco Cinématheque, The New Arts Lab, The Collective for Living Cinema, and The Kitchen Center for Experimental Art.


Clive Painter

He appears as a Guitarist on a few albums by the group but most notably Co-Produced the 2005 re-scoring of Hans Richter (artist)’s 1947 surrealist film Dreams That Money Can Buy for DVD release through the British Film Institute on which he is also credited with Composition and Performance.

Feature film

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.

Newport Transporter Bridge

The bridge provided the setting for some scenes in the 1959 British crime drama film Tiger Bay and also featured in an early scene in the 1972 experimental film The Other Side of the Underneath by Jane Arden which was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray by the British Film Institute in 2009.

The Price of a Song

Along with Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours (1931) and his feature The Man Behind the Mask (1936), The Price of a Song is currently included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British films.

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

In 2007, A River Called Titas topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films, as chosen in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute.