HC Deb 21 September 1915 vol 74 c431

21. Resolved, That on and after the twenty-ninth day of September nineteen hundred and firteen until the first day of August nineteen hundred and sixteen, there shall be charged on all films imported into Great Britain or Ireland for the purpose of the exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other similar apparatus the following Customs Duties, namely:—

s. d.
Blank film, on which no picture has been impressed, known as raw film or stock, per linear foot 0
Positives, i.e., films containing a picture and ready for exhibition, per linear foot 0 1
Negatives, i.e., films containing a photograph from which positives can be printed, per linear foot 0 8
—[The Chancellor of the Exchequer.]