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Coping with Cupid (1991) - extract
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Three blonde extra-terrestrial investigators have just 48 hours to find love on Earth whilst trying to avoid the deadly "loneliness virus" in this agreeably loopy BFI short...
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Winter (1923)
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An early entry in the popular 'Secrets of Nature' series (1922-33): modestly hovering near the bottom of the bill, these shorts were some of the best British films of their...
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Uneasy Dreams: The Life of Mr Pickwick (1970) - extract
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For more on the BFI's Dickens on Screen project go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/dickens
This short impressionistic film by Jeremy Marre, a director better known for making m...
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Laurel and Hardy Visit Tynemouth (1932) - extract
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Shot by an enthusiastic amateur on 16mm film, this silent newsreel extract provides a valuable glimpse of the rapturous welcome legendary comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver H...
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The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper (1908)
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Cecil Hepworth's Rescued by Rover (1905) was the international blockbuster of its day, a gripping tale of a kidnapped baby saved by an intrepid canine hero - played by the ...
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Alexandra Day in Peckham (1913)
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Alexandra Rose Day is a charity fundraising event, inaugurated in 1912 on the 50th anniversary of the arrival in England of Alexandra of Denmark for her marriage to the fut...
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Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern
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The earliest films might not have been made until the mid 1890s but that didn't stop people in Victorian Britain enjoying all sorts of visual spectacles and wonders, create...
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Love's Presentation (1966) - extract
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Love's Presentation is a study by filmmaker James Scott of the British artist David Hockney at work in April 1966, when he began a series of etchings based on love poems by...
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After the Blizzard (1926)
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North Wales is transformed into a picturesque Narnia in this beautiful snowy hike through the countryside. After some pretty shots of semi-frozen streams and snow-covered f...
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What Do You Do On Friday Night? (c.1926)
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An amateur advertisement for the Varsity Dance Club in Cambridge, made for screening in local cinemas. Its tone parodies the recruitment film, urging ladies to join the gen...
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Welcome to the BFI National Archive Channel, presenting hundreds of free films from the BFI National Archive, plus expert commentary and interviews.
You can watch over 2000 complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of...
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