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[…]e, very British way, by easy stages—nothing too ambitious. Our first camera, made for the Festival, the Newman Sinclair assembly, which we called the BFI Camera since the British Film Institute were really the owners—this had never been of adequate precision for the—for the precision necessary for a[…]

[…]p;that would have been 40 years work down the drain. Yeah so they that the BFI on national film like I've got I've got the whole shooting match really ever[…]

[…]- that's all I can say. It was 194...Sidney Cole: 1945?Kay Mander: No, no, no. It was after the War.Sidney Cole: Oh, 1946?Kay Mander: Well, I won the BFI award in 1949, so it must have been 1948. And the first one - they liked the first one, so Jacques Brunius was commontateur[?]. And this is anothe[…]

[…] history of the History Project and its relationship with the BFI ) is still zooming a nd getting on with […]

[…] Definition copy to be kept by the  BEHP and the bfi on  a hard drive. SD CARDS I think it […]

!!!!!!Page!1!of!4!!!ONLINE&MEETING:&BEHP&MEMBERSHIP&AND&WEBSITE&PERMISSIONS&&&!Discussions&week&commencing&5&June&2017&By!phone!on!5!June:!Sue!Malden!(SM),!Ian!Noah!(IN)!and!Alison!Bancroft!(AB)!By!phone!on!6!June:!Mike!Dick!(MD),!Ian!Noah!(IN)!and!Alison!Bancroft!(AB)!Via!Skype!Conference!0n!7!June:!David!Sharp!(DS),!Martin!Spence!(MS),!Ian!Noah!(IN)!and!Alison!Bancroft!(AB)!!1.&DISCUSSION&FRAMEWORK&!Discussions!referenced!questions!raised!in!the!draft!Online!Systems!Operations!Manual!(copied!below):!!MEMBERSHIP&AND&PERMISSIONS&Criteria!for!BEHP!mebership!and!joining!procedures!need!to!be!reviewed!and!agreed!by!the!Management!Committee!for!two!main!reasons:!•!Now!the!BEHP!is!formally!constituted,!all!members!have!voting!rights!and!the!BEHP!is!now!more!accountable!to!official!members,!and!open!to!legal!challenge!on!governance!and!administrative!matters.!What!conditions!need!to!be!met!for!someone!to!become!a!member?!•!BEHP!members!have!rights!of!acces!to!additional!information!and!actions!on!the!website,!and!this!right!needs!to!be!accompanied!by!appropriate!terms!and!conditions.!At!the!moment!only!BEHP!members!should!have!access!to!the!members!pages.!Is!there!a!need!for!a!category!of!users!who!are!not!BEHP!members,!but!who!are!given!access!to!the!database!on!specific!terms.!!Website&User!accounts!are!created!for!official!History!Project!members,!following!a!request!from!the!Secretary!(is!this!correct?).!Additional!permissions!are!set!by!Sysadmin!when!requested.!Membership!permissions!and!permissions!management!need!to!be!designed!both!to!facilitate!an!effective!workflow!and!to!limit!damage!in!worst!case!scenarios. The!process!for!adding!members!to!the!system!and!assigning!additional!permissions!is!currently!informal.!With!the!likelihood!of!significant!future!project!growth,!should!this!be!formalised?!Should!people!be!able!to!apply!for!membership!via!the!site?!!&2.&DISCUSSIONS&!Phone!calls!with!Sue!and!Mike!were!informal,!rather!than!agenda!based,!but!their!comments!were!noted!to!feed!into!the!Skype!discussion.!!!& BEHP!Meetings!!Page!2!of!4!!2.1&Membership&Criteria&!Anyone!who!expresses!an!interest!in!film!and!who!can!perhaps!add!to!information!to!that!has!already!been!collected.!(MD)!!With!the!recent!registration!of!BEHP!as!a!company,!we!are!in!a!hybrid!state.!We!need!to!reboot!in!light!of!our!new!legal!status.!Existing!practices!and!management!procedures!need!clarification!and!the!decisionYmaking!process!needs!review!and!updating.!(MS)!!In!terms!of!membership,!we!need!to!start!with!Mem!&!Arts!and!the!definition!of!where!we!stand!legally.!This!is!unlikely!to!allow!for!different!types!of!membership,!i.e.!corporate!membership.!(To!be!checked).!(MS)!!Once!the!question!of!voting!rights!is!clarified,!it!will!provide!a!framework!for!other!issues!and!a!basis!for!making!other!decisions!(e.g.!membership!categories,!permissions!and!who!can!authorise!access).!(MS)!!What’s!the!status!of!partners!like!BECTU!and!BFI!–!do!they!get!voting!rights?!(DS)!!2.2&Membership&Categories&!May!need!different!levels!of!membership!in!terms!of!website!access,!i.e.!volunteer!members,!active!members!and!legacy!(mailing!list)!members!(MD).!!It!is!clear!there!are!currently!different!types!of!members:!•!Mailing&list!–!some!of!the!core!membership,!but!also!silent!partners!who!don’t!appear!at!all!or!possibly!just!at!the!AGM!to!vote.!They!may!not!have!high!levels!of!computer!literacy,!but!certainly!don’t!want!to!upset!this!core!membership!or!restrict!their!ability!to!vote.!•!Volunteers!–!these!tend!to!be!very!active!for!short!period!and!then!go!away.!They!should!have!access!to!website,!but!would!not!necessarily!be!voting!members!from!the!outset.!This!could!change!if!they!stay!with!the!project,!with!them!becoming!a!full!member!or!even!a!Director.!!Editing!rights!and!voting!rights!are!different!issues!and!need!to!be!dealt!with!separately.!(DS)!!Divisions!need!to!be!made.!Effective!board!member!might!not!have!any!access!to!edit!the!website.!(MS)!!With!volunteers,!it!may!be!that!their!permissions!should!be!date!limited!say!to!6!months!and!then!their!interest!needs!to!be!renewed!for!their!access!to!the!website!to!continue.!(DS)!!We!need!a!volunteer!signYoff.!Martin!Sheffield!has!recently!started!volunteering!at!a!museum!and!might!have!info!on!their!volunteer!agreements/arrangements.!(DS)!! BEHP!Meetings!!Page!3!of!4!!Until!proper!procedures!are!in!place,!it!was!agreed!that!volunteers!should!use!offline!methods!of!collecting!data!(e.g.!spreadsheets),!and!that!their!findings!should!be!checked!before!being!handed!to!confirmed!person/s!for!uploading.!(DS,!MS,!IN,!AB)!!Agreement!is!needed!on!file!naming!protocols!(for!photos,!transcripts,!etc.)!and!volunteers!need!to!be!aware!of!copyright!issues.!(AB)!!2.3&Application&process&!Consider!an!online!form!(plus!printed!option!for!those!without!email).!(MD)!!2.4&Forward&planning&!Possibility!of!institutional!membership,!subscriptions!for!academics/universities!(like!IMDB).!We!would!need!to!justify!in!terms!of!value!for!money!and!would!potentially!then!need!to!charge!everyone!for!access.!We!could!also!look!at!possibilities!such!as!a!commercial!relationship!with!IMDB,!so!people!looking!for!information!could!click!straight!through!to!interviews.!We’re!not!ready!yet!and!would!need!to!sit!aside!others!who!charge,!not!compete.!We’d!also!need!to!check!whether!commercial!arrangements!would!conflict!with!Heritage!Lottery!applications.!(SM)!!Corporate!(e.g.!Talking!Pictures),!partners!(e.g.!BECTU,!BFI),!and!academic!(e.g.!BUFVC)!relationships!all!need!to!be!revisited.!Academic!institutions!may!want!access!via!Athens!protocol!–!with!licenced!universities!to!have!access!to!various!materials!created.!Can!see!increasing!demand!from!academic!institutions!and!corporate!organisations!–!may!need!to!deal!with!on!case!by!case!or!set!up!higher!payments!to!allow!use!of!materials!on!an!annual!basis.!All!needs!discussion.!(DS)!!!Discussion!also!needed!about!position!with!BFI,!who!are!relaunching!media!tech!later!this!summer,!and!the!position!with!unYdigitised!data.!(DS)!!3.&NEXT&STA G E&!Proposed:!Based!on!the!outcome!of!discussions,!and!subsequent!feedback!from!other!members!of!the!Management!Committee,!a!draft!membership!policy!to!be!drawn!up!for!approval!at!the!next!meeting.!In!addition!to!the!above!points,!this!policy!would!cover!online!!roles!and!permissions.!!It!was!agreed!at!the!Skype!meeting!that!current!legal!position!and!voting!rights!need!clarification!before!other!issues!can!be!addressed.!!&& BEHP!Meetings!!Page!4!of!4!!Immediate&actions:!!•!MS!to!lead!on!Mem!&!Arts!discussions!!!•!DS!to!send!through!draft!BEHP!Online!Systems!Operations!Manual!with!his!notes,!for!circulation!to!the!Management!Team!!•!The!possibility!of!Ian!(and!Alison!when!appropriate)!joining!the!Management!meeting!via!Skype!to!be!explored,!and!a!Skype!connection!set!up!for!Wednesday’s!meeting!(14!June)!if!agreed.!!•!Management!agreement!to!sought!on!a!regular!programme!of!Skype!meetings.!DS,!MS,!IN!and!AB!agreed!that!this!is!likely!to!be!the!only!practical!way!to!get!through!the!issues!needing!urgent!consideration.!

[…]into production, and very kindly asked if I would get involved in this film that they were doing called Crystal gazing, and it was 100% funded by the BFI. And so I left crosswind and I went and worked for them officially as production manager, weirdly, but it was sort of more like being the location[…]

[…] at the BBC on Yesterday’s Witness, so she had a good production record and as you say she’d been a senior player in the National Film Archive at the BFI for some time. I think she left the BFI to have a family and then had gone into television as her boys grew up a little bit. I think that was roug[…]

[…], the last film I shot there. Since then - when was that? It was in 2001. But - Sixth Happiness we haven't mentioned, which was a film I shot for the BFI and the BBC. Darrol Blake  1:24:02  Oh, in '97, it says here. In '97. Waris Hussein  1:24:07  So[…]