COI films come to BFI.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-20 February 2008-UK Government: COI films come to BFI(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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The BFI (British Film Institute) has secured an agreement with the Central Office of Information (COI) to manage and commercially represent its collection of public information films. The arrangement, which comes into effect immediately, will create a combined collection of 20,000 films; the biggest single source of moving image material produced by the British Government, which is now being cared for by the BFI National Archive.

The COI collection charts the attitudes and preoccupations of British society through every decade from the 1930s and provides a unique insight into Government's changing priorities for public...