The Cultural Trust operates under the guidance of Arts Steward Waxon Wayne, as a censorship bureau dressed up as a grant-giving arts foundation in Blough City. It censors everything, even "reality itself".[1] It is separated into satellite offices divided by sub-section of the arts, including Architecture, Journalism, and Film, among others.
The seal of the Cultural Trust is a government-style seal with the words ‘The Cultural Trust’ and a Lady Justice-style figure with an eagle head, holding scales in one hand. The scales have a feather on the high side and little lead balls on the other. The figure has a blindfold in the other hand that she is holding “like a sword” as though she is “going to blindfold you”.[2]
History
The Cultural Trust is suspicious of Blake Blossom and Gale Green, correctly believing that they are funded by subversive members of the Concern such as Hector Hu in order to turn people against their censorship. They impounded the Teardrop Coupe after the death of Blake Blossom (as they believed it contained the Blossom Tape), and the car was then stolen by Achilles Apollo.
Film Office
The Film Office is a satellite office of the Trust. The front of the building says 'TRUST' in big impact serif font. The inside of the building itself is modeled after a bank building, with the seal of the cultural trust on the lobby floor as you enter reception desk, desks where people are working in the reception area, a place where you can deposit and withdraw things, a vault, viewing rooms on the floor above, reading nooks to look over files with magnifying glasses and microfiche readers.
Inside the personnel file room, one wall is one long space heater, and the room contains rows and rows of filing cabinets with the files themselves sorted in a confusing way (by section (director, actor, etc), but also alphabetical and genre (i.e. western, drama, war film).