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CodeDS/UK/1366
NameBritish Empire Film Institute; 1926-; British film organisation
Variations of NameBEFI
Dates1926-
Place of Birth/OriginUnited Kingdom
RelationshipsGrand Council - included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rabindranath Tagore
BiographySlogan: More British Films on British Screens.

'Among its aims, these bright jewels: to rouse a patriotic feeling sufficient to prevent the scandal of British Films being actually excluded from the great majority of film houses here and elsewhere... to confer Awards of Merit for films of Imperial value, to break down prejudive, to attact better brains to the industry.'

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