Children's Film Foundation

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The Children's Film Foundation was a non-profit-making organisation which made films for children in the United Kingdom, typically running for about 55 minutes. It was founded in 1951. For 30 years it was subsidised by the British Government, but it had its subsidy removed in 1981. It made a few further films in the mid-1980s, by which time it had been renamed the Children's Film and Television Foundation. Many of its films, dating back to the 1960s, were shown on the BBC in the 1980s, as Friday Film Specials. It has made no films of its own since the mid-80s, but it still exists under its revised name, and in recent years it has provided funding for other projects.

Its archive is now owned by the British Film Institute.

[edit] Filmography (selected)

For a fuller list see Filmography for the Childrens Film Foundation

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• Cup Fever
• Hide and Seek (1972)
• The Battle of Billy's Pond(1976)
• The Boy Who Turned Yellow
• The Glitterball
• Sitting on the Fence
• 4-D Special Agent (1981)
• Tightrope to Terror (1982)
• Cry Wolf (1968)
• Fern the Red Deer (1976)
• Paganini Strikes Again (1973)
• A Hitch in Time (1978)
• One Hour to Zero (1976)
• Haunters of The Deep (1984)
• Friend or Foe (1982)
• The Stolen Plans (1953)
• The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
• Soapbox Derby (1958)
• The Adventures of HAL 5 (1958)
• Hunted in Holland (1960)
• The Last Rhino (1961)
• Go Kart Go (1963)
• Runaway Railway (1965)

[edit] External links

• ScreenOnline entry for the CFF
• ScreenOnline entry looking at some of the CFF's work
• TV Cream's nearly complete listing of every CFF film
• The CFF at the BFI and also Childrens Film and Televison Foundation

[edit] Sources

• Rank Film Library 16mm Catalogue ,1978, (pp183-193)]