BFI Announces Terry Jones Archive Donation To BFI National Archive
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Carl Roberts 
The BFI announced that it received materials from The Terry Jones Archive, which will be preserved at the BFI National Archive.
The BFI is excited to announce that the Jones family has donated film materials from The Terry Jones Archive, which provide valuable insights into Terry’s professional work, to the BFI National Archive for preservation. The collection of film includes Terry’s personal 16mm copies of the Python feature films. It also includes a 35mm print of his film adaptation of The Wind in the Willows (1996). Additionally, there are early sketches from series such as The Late Show (BBC, 1966-67).
NEWS OF THE DONATION
On Saturday, attendees at the celebratory event “Terry Jones: The Renaissance Man” at BFI Southbank learned about the donation. The event, hosted by BFI Archive TV programmer Dick Fiddy, highlighted Jones’s contributions. The event remembered the late director, writer, historian, performer, presenter and Python’s multiple talents, five years after his passing. It looked back over his glittering career with memorable and rare clips from his own archive. Contributions came from friends, family, and colleagues. Contributors and guests included Sir Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, John Cleese, and Sanjeev Bhaskar. Also present were Terry’s daughter, Sally Jones, and comedy historian and close friend Robert Ross. The event celebrated the launch of the biography, ‘Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones,’ scheduled for publication on November 6.
LISA KERRIGAN
Lisa Kerrigan, Senior Curator of Television at the BFI National Archive, said of the donation,
“We are delighted to receive this collection of personal prints and film materials from The Terry Jones Archive. Like many film-makers Terry kept prints and film copies of his work and we are grateful to the Jones family for entrusting the preservation of these to the BFI National Archive. They are a testament to all of his many, many talents and will join programmes such as Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python’s Flying Circus that are already preserved as part of the national television archive, as well as the personal film collection of fellow Python Terry Gilliam.”
SALLY JONES
Sally Jones, Terry’s daughter, said,
“Dad was a longtime supporter of the BFI. I remember being brought along to screenings of classic films from an early age. From the wonderfully obscure to the almost forgotten, BFI Southbank shows films that you cannot see anywhere else and helps keep film alive. Dad had a huge place in his heart for the work of the BFI, so the BFI National Archive was the obvious choice to preserve and safeguard his film collection.”
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