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This week the British Film Institute unveiled its new digital media initiative, a dull phrase for something actually quite exciting. Most exciting of all is that the BFI is for the first time allowing the public to download movies from its archive. For the launch it will have around 30 titles, including Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera, Michael Powell’s The Edge of the World and early works from Ridley Scott and Stephen Frears.