From the Sight and Sound archive
“Films constitute a valuable historical document”: Ernest Lindgren on the founding of the National Film Library
When the BFI announced the establishment of the National Film Library (now the BFI National Archive, which turns 90 this year), its first curator, Ernest Lindgren, outlined the need for its existence. From our Summer 1935 issue.
By Ernest Lindgren
“Films constitute a valuable historical document”: Ernest Lindgren on the founding of the National Film Library