“Increasingly some of the greatest international film archives–currently the CinÈmathËque franÁaise and Britainís National Film and Television Archive–are under acute threat from official economic cut-backs and the incursion of ill-informed new bureaucracies.
The most acute current crisis is the threat to the National Film and Television Archive. The British Film Institute, the body currently entrusted with its administration, has drawn up an ill-considered ìPlanî for financial cut-back and reorganisation of the Archive.”
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