Talk:British Film Institute

The Save The Children Fund Film
This was a very popular release by Ken Loach and should be listed on this wikipedia page. I've also created a separate page for this film here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Save_the_Children_Fund_Film — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 16:06, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Quotes
Re "mind-boggling inaccuracies":

My quote was a direct quote from paragraph two of their Royal Charter, so it is not inaccurate, whether it boggles your mind or not. Where are you quoting from? Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:30, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually those weren't the inaccuracies to which I was referring, although I did think the original Charter quote excised too much content to give a rounded impression of their activities, excluding the "promotion of greater understanding and appreciation" which is such a key part of their remit. The material I was quoting from was the statement printed in every BFI publication, on the copyright page (in the case of books) or packaging (in the case of DVDs or videotapes). The inaccuracies I actually had in mind were contained in the sentence "The BFI is the United Kingdom's chief custodian of the "high art" end of the British movie industry." 1: This again elides mention of their exhbition wing, the phrase "movie industry" suggesting production, and 2: The NFT, contrary to your comment on the History page, have programmed commercial films, in addition to television programmes, documentary and news material, and assorted cult interest stuff (they're currently running a Diana Dors season!), none of which can be comfortably bracketed as "high art". In fact, tommorrow evening they are showing Hable con ella, funnily enough (according to the schedule available at www.bfi.org.uk). You were, I understand, dealing with it primarily as a film production entity rather than as an exhibition entity, and if we're talking about production, then of course your statement is correct (though less so than it used to be). However, as the BFI (to my knowledge, at least) no longer produces films "off it's own bat" (i.e., without associate producers) the statement is potentially misleading as to their real significance. The uninformed reader might well think that the BFI is, like the AFI, a production entity with only tangental involvment in exhibition.

I'm not moaning: those problems have been resolved by your current edit. As it stands, with a much longer Charter quote, and without the "high art" comment the article is now accurately representative of their activities. The only alteration I've made is the removal of "promote" from just before the Charter quote, simply because it seemed grammatically awkward. On reflection, the "mind-boggling" comment was unduly provocative, and I apologise if it was offensive. --Chips Critic 11:40, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

BFI template
Just wondering if we have a BFI template for links to the BFI website along the lines of the used for the IMDB. If we don't there should be one as it would be very useful. Paul Largo (talk) 13:52, 21 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I found a series of Bfidb for this site, but not before I'd started to create some of my own at Bfi (what a chump!) Anyway I've redirected mine to the existing ones and created a main template page for bfidb templates as there wasn't one. I've also created a couple of /doc pages. The main bfidb one is just a page with a series of links though so will need some details adding to it. I think I've managed to fix any confusion I might have caused. Paul Largo (talk) 19:12, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

MOMI section neutrality
To me this sounds like advertising: 'MOMI was acclaimed internationally and set new standards for education through entertainment ...'

And this isn't substantiated: 'it did not receive the high levels of continuing investment that might have enabled it to keep pace with technological developments and ever-rising audience expectations'.

Does it matter? Maybe this section should be re-written for NPOV.

Sam Dutton (talk) 12:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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