About me
Charles Fairall has served the BFI National Archive for 35 years as a technologist and as Head of Conservation over the past decade, took primary responsibility for leading the technical teams who pioneered innovative techniques to conserve, preserve and make accessible through digitisation and photographic processes, the extensive moving image collections which constitute the BFI’s Film & Television Archive. Currently working in an advisory capacity following a period of ill health, Charles is mostly involved with legacy video tape replay and digitisation, focussing closely on archival quality aspects and in particular the small percentage of ‘exceptions’ recordings which require the most specialised attention.