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THE AFRICAN QUEEN The papers in the Film Finances Archive reveal the key role that the company played in the post-war development of independent picture-making around the world. Its involvement in the making of The African Queen (1951) was of huge symbolic importance because the film marked the successful comeback of distributor United Artists after […]

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FILM FINANCES AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK

INTO THE OPEN Until very recently few scholars knew of the existence of Film Finances. In spite of its crucial importance to independent film-making over more than sixty years, the company had received no academic attention whatsoever. So when the company granted access to its archive for a special issue of the Historical Journal of […]

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THE FILM FINANCES ARCHIVE

The Film Finances Archive contains production material relating to over 600 films that the company guaranteed before 1980. It is one of the largest and most significant collections relating to the British film industry. FILM FINANCES AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK Over the summer of 2013, Film Finances allowed some of Britain’s leading film historians to […]

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