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

Recently acquired and/or catalogued Special Collections include:

Katrin Cartlidge. Actor (1961-2002)
Joan Morgan. Actor (1905-2004)
John Schlesinger. Director, writer, producer (1926-2003)

Catalogues for these collections are available to consult in the BFI National Library Reading Room.

Script Acquisitions

Recent additions to our collection of over 30,000 unpublished scripts include:

Happy-Go-Lucky (GB, US, 2008)
Puffball (GB, CA, IR, 2008)
The Last King Of Scotland (GB, 2007)
London To Brighton (GB, 2006)
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)
Venus (GB, 2006)
Stormbreaker (Dl, GB, US, 2006)
Red Road (GB, DK, 2006)
Life & Lyrics (GB, US, 2006)

Other new additions to the 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.