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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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National Film Theatre
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(NFT, London SE1) Cinema on the *South Bank, deriving from the temporary Telekinema set up nearby in 1951 as part of the *Festival of Britain. This had been organized by the British Film Institute, a body formed in 1933 to encourage the development of cinema. The Institute, which is also responsible for the National Film Archive, allowed the very popular Telekinema to continue after the Festival was over and moved it in 1956, with a new name, to a permanent home under the arches of Waterloo Bridge. The National Film Theatre has continued to show programmes of the best British and foreign films of all periods, and it is the setting each winter for the London Film Festival. A related enterprise, established next door in 1988, is the *Museum of the Moving Image.
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