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Film Regulation and The BBFC: 1) Publishes short but detailed information about the content of every film. It is aimed particularly at parents and offers as summery as to why a film was rated at any given category. In 1884 Parliament passed the videos recording act - subject to certain exemptions offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the sectary of the state.  It was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body. Statutory powers remain with local councils which ave the ability to overrule any of the BBFC's decisions. President and Vice President of the BBFC were so designated and charged with applying the new teat of 'suitability of viewing at home'. After this the broads title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to show how classification plays a bigger part than censorship. 2)When each film is submitted, each work is checked by compliance officers who log details of what the film

A field in England T his article explores how difficult it can be for low budget films as most blockbuster films spend millions.It talks about how .It also explores the distribution of films and how there are different ways a film can be distributed,depending on what will have the most effective outcome. The distributor has to take many factors into account, for instance finance and the target audience. It touches on the fact distribution costs are dominated by Hollywood. Furthermore it states the the film was hard to film as it was shot in one external location.  Industrial evolution:Andy Strak influences A field in England's release strategy and how it shows the evolution and democratisation of film distribution. It talks about how it was released on TV, cinema VHS and DVD simultaneously. Screening/radical release  The commissioning executive Anna Higgs on screening an early cut of the film for the first time to her fellow executives at Film 4 and the ground-breaking rel