Catalogue description Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Film Branch: Registered Files (FM Series)

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Details of BT 335
Reference: BT 335
Title: Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Film Branch: Registered Files (FM Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Film Branch of the Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry.

Selected files mainly relate to legislation effecting the British film industry with particular reference to the 'quota' system and the film levy. Also covered are co-operation with foreign film companies, the proposal to establish a national film school and the future of the National Film Finance Corporation.

Some earlier files were inherited from the Industries and Manufacturing Division and were re-registered from the IM series in BT 258
Date: 1966-1972
Related material:

For files of the National Film School Planning Committee on a national film school see ED 243
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FM file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Films Branch, 1966-1970

Board of Trade, Films, Services, Distribution Division, 1971-1972

Board of Trade, Paper, Printing and Publishing, Services and Distribution Division, 1972-1973
Physical description: 37 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Films Branch was formed in 1966, to deal specifically with the encouragement of the British film industry. Previously this function had been part of the responsibilities of Division 3 of the Industries and Manufactures Department. By 1971 the branch had been renamed as Films, Services and Distribution Division and this was changed again in 1972 to Paper, Printing and Publishing Services Division. A small section within this division dealt with the film industry.

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