London’s Museum of the Moving Image closed on 31 August 1999 and since then our cinema archive has been sold off, put in storage or forgotten
Any present-day visitor to the BFI Southbank in London, who’s killing time in the Mediatheque, browsing the bookshop or lounging on the sofas in the bar, smug about their choice of location for a date, might be very surprised to know that, 20 years ago, they were more likely to have found themselves flying over London, attending a magic lantern show, participating in a Hollywood shoot or experiencing life inside a Dalek.
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