Hmn, well, the BFI is... Is it government funded? I'm not sure (checks site)
"Total income remained consistent at £30.9m. Grant-in-Aid income from the UK Film Council, at £14.5m, was unchanged from 2003, except that £1.33m of the 2005 grant was paid-over ahead of schedule in 2004 and is shown within deferred income. Commercial and sponsorship income increased from £11.6m to £13.1m. Other grants and lottery awards received in the year decreased from £2.1m to £1.6m, the difference largely being attributable to specific one-off grants from the late J Paul Getty, the New Opportunities Fund and TV Grants in 2002/03. In 2003/04 £0.7m was received to fund recording of TV programmes for the year, and the bfi received a £1.3m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the continuation of the restoration project at the Archive." So - it's a charity half funded by the film council, which is (I think) funded by the DCMS. Might be a similar case to the OS? Perhaps it should be added to the Free our Data list :) http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/about.html They're actively asking for feedback about how to improve their database... (Don't be too mean to them, they're a nice bunch. I used to use their library back in the day.) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Kerry Sent: 31 January 2007 08:04 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Movies Data Hi Kim, On 30/01/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW - stumbled across this last night > http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/ > Might be useful, or at least somewhere to poke to open up their data, > too? (Did the Movies Data list get set up?) The BFI data looks a little harder to acquire as it's not public domain information and would need to donated to this group. UCLAP has been put on hold after someone from the PA contacted me and is currently looking to make their cinema listings available to us. Apparently he's in talks with Ian or someone else at backstage, although UCLAP can be restarted if the deal falls through. Cheers, Rob - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
