170 fims from unknown sources released for free online.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a collection of more than 170 films known as the Orphan Works.
Source: BFI National Archive
The Little Match Girl (1914), D. Percy Nash, part of the Orphan Works collection
Including features, shorts, corporate films, adverts, animation and documentary, the collection is comprised of works that have unknown or uncontactable rights-holders.
The BFI archive team has performed due diligence on the films by attempting to contact the copyright owners, and as such the organisation is now able to show them for free online.
The digitally-restored films will be available to view on BFI’s Youtube channel in the UK and internationally.
Actors featuring in the works include Christopher Lee, David Jason, Honor Blackman, John Le Mesurier, Lupino Lane, Madeleine Carroll, Norman Beaton, Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton. There are also interviews with footballing legends such as George Best,...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a collection of more than 170 films known as the Orphan Works.
Source: BFI National Archive
The Little Match Girl (1914), D. Percy Nash, part of the Orphan Works collection
Including features, shorts, corporate films, adverts, animation and documentary, the collection is comprised of works that have unknown or uncontactable rights-holders.
The BFI archive team has performed due diligence on the films by attempting to contact the copyright owners, and as such the organisation is now able to show them for free online.
The digitally-restored films will be available to view on BFI’s Youtube channel in the UK and internationally.
Actors featuring in the works include Christopher Lee, David Jason, Honor Blackman, John Le Mesurier, Lupino Lane, Madeleine Carroll, Norman Beaton, Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton. There are also interviews with footballing legends such as George Best,...
- 12/21/2017
- by Tom Grater
- Screen Daily Test
170 fims from unknown sources released for free online.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a collection of more than 170 films known as the Orphan Works.
Source: BFI National Archive
The Little Match Girl (1914), D. Percy Nash, part of the Orphan Works collection
Including features, shorts, corporate films, adverts, animation and documentary, the collection is comprised of works that have unknown or uncontactable rights-holders.
The BFI archive team has performed due diligence on the films by attempting to contact the copyright owners, and as such the organisation is now able to show them for free online.
The digitally-restored films will be available to view on BFI’s Youtube channel in the UK and internationally.
Actors featuring in the works include Christopher Lee, David Jason, Honor Blackman, John Le Mesurier, Lupino Lane, Madeleine Carroll, Norman Beaton, Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton. There are also interviews with footballing legends such as George Best, Jack and Bobby Charlton...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a collection of more than 170 films known as the Orphan Works.
Source: BFI National Archive
The Little Match Girl (1914), D. Percy Nash, part of the Orphan Works collection
Including features, shorts, corporate films, adverts, animation and documentary, the collection is comprised of works that have unknown or uncontactable rights-holders.
The BFI archive team has performed due diligence on the films by attempting to contact the copyright owners, and as such the organisation is now able to show them for free online.
The digitally-restored films will be available to view on BFI’s Youtube channel in the UK and internationally.
Actors featuring in the works include Christopher Lee, David Jason, Honor Blackman, John Le Mesurier, Lupino Lane, Madeleine Carroll, Norman Beaton, Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton. There are also interviews with footballing legends such as George Best, Jack and Bobby Charlton...
- 12/21/2017
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Cleese and crew in 'secret talks', with a press conference imminent. Plus: is legendary comic Andy Kaufman really dead?
• Monty Python: five favourite sketches – video
This week's comedy news
The stars of Monty Python have announced a press conference this Thursday amid rumours of a reunion. They last worked as a team back in 1983, on the film The Meaning of Life. The Sun reports that the five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin) have spent months in "secret talks". Previous rumoured projects have come to nothing, with Idle once joking: "We would only do a reunion if [Graham] Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent." The press conference is scheduled for midday 21 November at London's Playhouse Theatre. Meanwhile, as the British Comedy Guide report, ex-Pythons Palin and Jones have been filming new material together for the DVD release of...
• Monty Python: five favourite sketches – video
This week's comedy news
The stars of Monty Python have announced a press conference this Thursday amid rumours of a reunion. They last worked as a team back in 1983, on the film The Meaning of Life. The Sun reports that the five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin) have spent months in "secret talks". Previous rumoured projects have come to nothing, with Idle once joking: "We would only do a reunion if [Graham] Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent." The press conference is scheduled for midday 21 November at London's Playhouse Theatre. Meanwhile, as the British Comedy Guide report, ex-Pythons Palin and Jones have been filming new material together for the DVD release of...
- 11/19/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
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