New Acquisitions
If you work - or have worked - in British film or television, have kept records of your career over the years, such as scripts, letters, business papers, or ephemera, and are now looking for a home for such material, we would like to hear from you! Your archives will join those of Joseph Losey, David Lean, Powell and Pressburger, Derek Jarman, Michael Balcon, David Puttnam, John Schlesinger, Troy Kennedy Martin, John McGrath, and many, many others, to be catalogued, preserved and made available to the media students and historians of today and tomorrow. Just contact us with the details.
Acquisitions in 2008
Collections acquired in 2008 include:
- Rudolph Cartier. Director, Producer, Screenwriter (1908-1994). Scripts
- Tom Chadbon. Actor (b. 1946). Scripts.
- Desmond Davis. Director, Cameraman (b. 1926). Scripts and unpublished articles.
- Reginald Dobson. Director. Working papers.
- Euan Lloyd. Director, Producer, Screenwriter (b.1923). Scripts, publicity materials.
- John McGrath. Director, Producer, Screenwriter (1935-2002). Additional papers.
- Peter Moffat. Director, Producer (1922 -2007). Correspondence.
- Tom Milne. Critic (1926-2005). Correspondence.
- PACT (Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television. Early BFI and BFPA documentation and minutes.
- Michael Powell. Director, Producer, Screenwriter (1905-1990). Additional material (press cuttings)
- Howard Schuman. Screenwriter, Actor (b. 1942). Scripts.
- Anthony Simmons. Director, Producer, Screenwriter (b. 1922). Working papers.
- Marcia Wheeler. Producer. Production papers.
These collections will shortly be catalogued and made available via the BFI National Library.
Script Acquisitions
Recent additions to our collection of over 30,000 unpublished scripts include:
Brideshead Revisited (GB, US, IT, MA, 2008)
Adulthood (GB, 2008)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (GB, 2008)
The Cottage (GB, 2008)
Donkey Punch (GB, 2008)
Escapist (GB, 2008)
Faintheart (GB, 2008)
Frankyln (GB, KY, 2008)
French Film (GB, 2009)
Genova (GB, 2008)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (GB, IE, KY, US, 2008)
In the Loop (GB, KY, 2009)
The Moon Princess (aka The Secret of Moonacre) (GB, HU, FR, US, KY, 2009)
Summer (GB, DL, 2008)
White Lightnin’: The Jesco White Murders (GB, 2008)
Happy-Go-Lucky (GB, US, 2008)
Puffball (GB, CA, IR, 2008)
Nightwatching (NL, GB, PL,CA, 2007)
That’s For Me! (GB, 2007)
The Last King Of Scotland (GB, 2007)
Sunshine (US, GB, 2007)
This Is England (GB, 2007)
28 Weeks Later (GB, US, 2007)
Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution (GB, 2007)
And When Did You Last See Your Father (GB, 2007)
St Trinian’s (GB, 2007)
Becoming Jane (GB, IE, 2007)
Notes On A Scandal (GB, US, 2007)
Other recent additions to the script collection include: E.W [a.k.a. Emergency Ward], a 1974 screenplay by Michael Crichton which eventually became the television series ER); a script for an early Martin Scorsese film, It’s Not Just You, Murray! (US, 1964) and Jean Harlow’s own bound copy of the script for her 1932 film Red Dust.
