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A history of the ArchiveA history of the Archive

75 years of the BFI's mission to "maintain a national repository of films of permanent value"

Care of the collectionsCare of the collections

All film and video formats deteriorate over time - dealing with this complex chemistry requires a variety of strategies to ensure their survival

AcquisitionAcquisition

The policies and processes underlying the Archive's selection, acquisition and cataloguing fiction and non-fiction film and television

Sight & Sound

Sight and Sound cover

June issue: Moonrise Kingdom, The Turin Horse, Paul Laverty, Jean-Claude Carrière, Death Watch

New Horizons for UK Film

Have your say on the BFI's Future Plan 2012-2017.

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Last Updated: 07 Jul 2011