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What did they do in PnP films?

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Nothing directly, but he made many donations to the BFI. The British Film Institute received £20m which helped finance the transfer of old British films from perishable nitrate stock to a modern medium at the BFI's Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted. He also helped in the purchase of the institute's headquarters at Stephen Street in London and, in recent years, assisted in the creation of the London Imax Cinema and the Museum of the Moving Image.

It is not known for certain (yet) but it is suspected it was his donations that enabled the preservation and restoration of many P&P titles.

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