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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, the National Film and Television Archive.
The net result of these meetings was the formation of the British National Films Company. The first commercial production by this company was Turn of the Tide (1935), a film based upon a 1932 novel by Leo Walmsley called Three Fevers .
The company was founded during 1927 by Scottish solicitor John Maxwell after he had purchased British National Pictures Studios and its Elstree Studios complex and merged it with his ABC Cinemas circuit, renaming the company British International Pictures. The Wardour Film Company, with Maxwell as chairman, was the distributor of BIP films.
BFI National Archive. The BFI looks after one of the largest and most important collections of film and television in the world. Its teams of experts ensure that the collection is preserved and developed for future generations and made widely accessible to today’s audiences.
British film company stubs (100 P) Pages in category "Film production companies of the United Kingdom" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 263 total.
The company had no relation to the British Grand National Pictures (although the British firm used the American company's logo). History and releases [ edit ] Edward L. Alperson , a film exchange manager, founded Grand National in 1936 on the basis of First Division Pictures , of which he was on the board of directors.
British National Films Company. In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank, Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood and producer John Corefield. Origin of the company . Joseph Arthur Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and the son of a millionaire flour miller.
