25 Results A large amount of archive material that had not previously been available for research was traced and will be handed over to the AdsD in the near future. The most gratifying result has undoubtedly been that both Jean Vincent, Secretary General of the FIM, and John Morton, President of the FIM, have promised to pass on the archival collections which are currently being stored under rather makeshift conditions in the cellars of the FIM head office in Paris. The AdsD will soon receive the collection, once the necessary contractual procedures have been concluded 16 . From what we have seen so far, the FIM-files appear to be well-documented archive material of great historical value, more than 50 linear meters of them. The remaining files from ISETU/EGAKU from the period between 1974 and 1984, when the activities of the respective secretariats were carried out by the Austrian KMfB in Vienna, could be preserved as well. These files, roughly 1 linear meter, have already been handed over to the AdsD. The remaining FISTAV-files from Alan Sapper's private collection could also be acquired. Sapper, who was the President of FISTAV as long as the organization existed, promised to examine the private documents which he has stored at his home and to hand them over to the AdsD at the next opportunity 17 . It will then be the first time that a good archival basis is available for conducting the research of that organization. All in all, the largest gaps in the documentation about the international trade union organizations in the arts, culture, media and entertainment sector could be filled by the files from the FIM and the remaining files from FISTAV so that in future all the filed documents of the(former) 16 The FIM-files have arrived in the AdsD in the meantime. 17 Since the AdsD will in turn acquire files from the FIA-office which was located in London as well, it should not be difficult in respect of organi­zation.