The Times (04/Apr/1981) - £62,500 aid to save historic films

(c) The Times (04/Apr/1981)

• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, British Film Institute, Murder! (1930)

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£62,500 aid to save historic films

A grant of £62,500 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund will help to save an important group of historic British films made between 1895 and 1950, including Alfred Hitchcock's 1930 film, Murder, and a newsreel of the funeral of Queen Victoria.

The grant was announced yesterday by Mr Paul Channon, Minister for the Arts, when he opened the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians in London.

A British Film Institute official said it was necessary to carry out the work of copying the material by next April.

"We can only cope with half the expenditure from our annual budget and the remaining £125,000 has to come from outside sources."