Arts Council of Great Britain / England

“The Arts Council of Great Britain / of England (ACGB/ACE) was the main funder of artists’ moving image in England from the early 1970s. The Study Collection holds papers relating to its Artists Film & Video Committee and Arts Films Committee, covering policy development, funding schemes, exhibition-organising. These are catalogued here in summary-form only. See also ‘Exhibitions and Events’ and Michael Maziere’s study ‘Institutional Support for Artists' Film and Video in England 1966 – 2003” (http://www.studycollection.co.uk/maziere/paper.html). Distribution catalogues; Publications.
[attached ‘object records’ = hanging files]
- ACGB New Activities Committee
Papers from 1969 & FACOP [location hanging files, office]
- ACGB Artists Film & Video Committee 1986
Papers [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Advisory Panel for Film (Docs) 1986
Papers from meetings [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Artists Film & Video Committee 1987
Papers [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Advisory Panel for Film (Docs) 1987
Papers from meetings [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Artists Film & Video Committee 1988
Papers from meetings plus ACGB/Channel 4 ‘11th hour awards’ [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Advisory Panel for Film (Docs) 1988
Papers from meetings [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Artists Film & Video Committee 1986-90
Papers from some meetings 1986-90 [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB Policy Documents
Includes National Arts & Media Strategy [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB – V&A Documents
list of film committee documents held by V&A [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE Film Lottery
list of awards to artists from Lottery Film 1996-99 [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE lists awards to artists from Artists Film & Video Committee 1973- [location= hanging files, office]
- ACE artists broadcast schemes
Various papers relating to joint funding schemes with C4 and BBC [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE Film & Video artists on tour
Various reports – see also publications [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE relationship with the BFI
Includes Attenborough report (1973) Wilding Report (1990); Film Council and BFI support for the regions; correspondence [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE policy papers
Various policy papers submitted to Artists Film & Video Committee, Panel for Arts Films, Art dept et al. [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE film clients reports
(Film & Video Umbrella) [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE annual reports
Various annual reports – listing overall spend on different artforms etc. [location= hanging files, office]
- ACGB / ACE ‘Abandoned exhibition proposals’.
Poignant collection of good ideas that failed for forgotten reasons…[location= hanging files, office]