Arts Lab - Drury Lane 1967- 69

Film screening schedules and some programme notes 1967-8
Some theatre and gallery schedules
Some press cuttings
Correspondence with filmmakers
Some original posters
Transcript by Nicholas Albery of the Nov 68 Arts Labs Conference in Cambridge.


Arts Lab - Robert Street 1969 - 71 aka IRAT: Institute for Research in Art and Technology aka New Arts Lab
Film schedules and some programme notes 1969-71
Some theatre, gallery and video department (TVX) schedules
Some press cuttings
Correspondence with filmmakers, funders,
Some minutes of internal meetings including company accounts and constitution; plans of the building (and others considered) etc
Some original posters
Curtis's report 'Subsidy to Independent Filmmakers ; the present situation and how it might be improved' [sent to BFI and Arts Council] 1969


Arts Council of Great Britain/England

[note The Arts Council's own records are held at the Archive of Art and Design at the V&A Museum http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/acgb/acgbf.html]
Artists' Films Sub-committee/Artists' Film & Video Committee 1972-2000
Some policy discussion papers
Arts Council Annual Financial Reports 1972-2000 listing awards to artists and membership of committees
Some committee agendas papers and minutes from the period 1986-90
Reports on exhibition tours (ACE organised; Film & Video Umbrella; LVA etc)
Sample application forms
Lists of awards to film/video artists and clients made from 1972 onwards
Artists' Broadcast TV scheme guidelines
Documents relating to Arts Council / BFI demarcation disputes
Papers for the senior Advisory Panel for FVB 1986-90
New Activities Committee 1969-70
Minutes of meetings of main committee and its working party (incomplete)
Minutes of FACOP (Friends of Arts Council Operative - activists critical of ACGB's priorities, arguing for an artists' committee among other reforms)
'The need for an Artists' Council' Circuit 9 1969
Report on FACOP's Artists' Conference (Circuit 10/11) 1969
Final report of the new Activities Committee 30.03.70.
Some letters from members and contemporary press coverage.


British Film Institute - Production Board

[research documents donated by Peter Mudie and Christophe Dupin; plus papers from the Le Grice collection]
Lists of committee PB members 1966 -
Lists of awards 1966-
Some policy papers post 66
Le Grice's report to the PB on Group Support c1975 - and his research papers towards this report c1973-4
'Theories and practices of Video Work' report by Frances J. Berrigan for the PB may 1975.
Papers relating to BFI / IFA negotiations over PB contracts with filmmakers
Board Papers & minutes 1972-5
'Funding Bodies and Funding Procedures in Relation to Independent Filmmaking' Peter Sainsbury & 'Interviews with PB members' - copied from BFI Production Board, ed. Alan Lovell
BFI Annual Report extracts 68/9; 71/2; 72/3; 73/4; 74/5; 75/6;76/7; 77/8;78/9; 79/80; 80/1; 81/2