BFI Most Wanted

2,317 views · Published 10 September 2010 · 6:43 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: BFI · 2010 · Film & Animation

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BFI Most Wanted is a part of the BFI National Archive's 75th anniversary celebrations, and is an initiative to find 75 lost films which need to be preserved and protected. Jo Botting, Fiction Curator at the BFI National Archive, discusses some of the selected films, highlighting Hitchcock's 1926 work The Mountain Eagle and some of Michael Powell's early features, including Two Crowded Hours, The Man Behind The Mask and The Price of a Song, as evidence of their evolution in filmmaking. Nathalie Morris, Curator for the BFI's Special Collections, also explains here the importance of collecting all sorts of documentation and promotional material in order to help us better understand these lost films. 

You can find out more at http://www.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/

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