The Motion Picture Industry Council records span the years 1943-1958 and encompass 0.7 linear foot. The records contain clippings, correspondence, press reports, in-house reports, speeches, and essays. The clippings are pro-Hollywood articles and do not chronicle the organization's activities. Likewise, the correspondence contains only a handful of letters to executive secretary Art Arthur. Of note is a letter regarding the merchandising of Walt Disney characters. Other material documents the 1949 joint conference of the Motion Picture Industry Organizations in Chicago, including material regarding issues to be addressed, minutes of meetings, and texts of addresses. In addition, there are minutes of the conference committee for a 1950 motion picture industry meeting. Files on the MPAA and Movietime U.S.A. show related interests of the organizations. A draft of the bylaws of a similar organization, the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, Inc., is present. Other items of interest include offsets of the "Congressional Record" with text of various film-related addresses, 1949-1953; a file on Dorothy B. Jones with Office of War Information (OWI) material (Jones was chief of the film reviewing and analysis section of the OWI during World War II); an information packet compiled in 1949-1950 in response to attacks on the film industry's representations of the national character, including an essay by Valentine Davies titled "American Films—Ambassadors of Democracy"; and material on the proposed Theatre Square, Inc. (to house all film industry unions and advocacy groups).

The Motion Picture Industry Council, Inc. (MPIC) (1948-1959), was formed by ten member groups that included producers and the talent guilds and unions. Although the MPIC's original mandate was to promote better public relations for the entire film industry, its broader aims embraced lobbying against censorship, trade barriers, and other timely issues. Management (the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers was a member group) and labor worked side by side to promote harmony within the industry so that a united front could be presented to the media. Dore Schary served as chairman, succeeded by Cecil B. DeMille. Ronald Reagan's activities within the organization were an important catalyst in his early political career. The organization, located in Beverly Hills, California, suspended operations in July 1959.