[…]lms from the various 16mm Film Distribution Companies. The Secretary for that British Film Institute sub-branch at the time was Barrie Wood. With the BFI taking some initial steps into trying to test expanding the National Film Theatre concept out into the country they had set up three full-time tri[…]
[…]ons and the interviewer is Murray Weston and its being recorded on the 15th of July 2016.Well, starting right at the start Clyde, you joined the BFI at what sort of date? CJ: February 1969.MW: And prior to that?CJ: as a totally untrained film archivist. Prior to that I spent[…]
[…]asted about five months, I think, when I saw advertised a job to run the collection of stills and designs and posters in the archive.SF: Here? I mean BFI job?Yeah.SF: The National Film Archive.Yeah. And it said ‘degree preferred’ and I hadn’t got a degree, and I thought oh, there’s no point in... Bu[…]
[…]n enough work in the film archive world for it to be shared across the countries. I mean, I've always felt that and I and I have always felt that the BFI [British Film Institute] was slightly imperialistic.[laughs] In its attitudes and I personally tried not to not to be like that and to encourage t[…]
[…]e didn't seem to get it somehow. I said no, these are for a museum at he thought he thought I was because when I was at the filament, I worked at the BFI briefly.Mike Dick 45:30 Well, I think we'll just, I think I just want to keep that linear flowing a bit. Well,Speaker 1 45:34 &n[…]
[…] annotated costume sketches (held in the Special Collections of the BFI National Archive) and the films to which she contributed, […]
[…]nd if you could kind of draw upon your experiences as Chair or even, even before then, but I just want to explore relations with other organisations. BFI, what do you think has been the, and the BECTU History Project has had quite a close association, what do you think the gains have been from that […]
[…]roject? No, nothing at all. We, I suppose, I can’t remember precisely but I think we must have talked about it early on with people at The BFI and I think David Sharpe quite early on joined the group and again was a very useful contributor and contact. Mm, we took our time actually gettin[…]
