Catalogue description Department for Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Film and Video: Registered Files (FV Series)

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Details of PF 308
Reference: PF 308
Title: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Film and Video: Registered Files (FV Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to the film industry (including distribution), used in DCMS and predecessors following the transfer of the policy portfolio from the Department of Trade and Industry.

Date: 1985-2003
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FV
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997

Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007

Physical description: 25 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2024 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Custodial history: Department of National Heritage 1995-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Upon the establishment of the Department of National Heritage in 1992, responsibility for film was transferred from the Department of Trade and Industry. The prefix FV (for Film and Video) was originally used by DTI. It remained in use under the Department of National Heritage and subsequently the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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