- The British Film Academy was launched as a membership organisation for industry professionals in 1948.
- It fulfilled a role akin to that of Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- The BFA's first chairman was the director David Lean.
- The Journal of the British Film Academy was launched in the autumn of 1954 and ran until spring 1959 (issue 17), at which point TV was incorporated into the Society and its journal became The Journal of the Society of Film and Television Arts.
(All Info: Alan B.)
