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257 - Country of Producing Entity for Archival Films (NR)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full

February 1999

First Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Country of producing entity for archival films (NR) $6 - Linkage (NR)	$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Name or abbreviation of the name of the country(s) where the principal offices of the producing entity(s) of an archival film are located.

Entity(s) in this instance is the production company(s) or individual that is named in the statement of responsibility (subfield $c) of field 245 (Title Statement).

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ INDICATORS

Both indicator positions are undefined; each contains a blank (#).

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Country of producing entity for archival films

Name or abbreviation of the name of the country(s) where the principal offices of the producing entity(s) of an archival film are located.

May contain the abbreviation [S.l.] when the country is unknown.


257	##$aU.S.
257	##$a[S.l.].


257	##$aItaly ; France.
500	##$aAvers Film has separate offices in Italy and France.

$6 - Linkage

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 257 ends with a period.

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(02/22/2008)