<P> In 2009, British films grossed around $2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7% globally and 17% in the United Kingdom . UK box - office takings totalled £ 1.1 billion in 2012, with 172.5 million admissions . </P> <P> The British Film Institute has produced a poll ranking what they consider to be the 100 greatest British films of all time, the BFI Top 100 British films . The annual BAFTA awards hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts are considered to be the British equivalent of the Academy Awards . </P> <P> The first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by British inventor William Friese Greene, who patented the process in 1890 . </P> <P> The first people to build and run a working 35 mm camera in Britain were Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres . They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out over the camera's patent . Soon several British film companies had opened to meet the demand for new films, such as Mitchell and Kenyon in Blackburn . </P>

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