A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers.
Contracts & Rights Chapter 22
Although we now had a pretty good range of titles from the likes of United Artists, Rank and EMI, we never felt that we could sit back and and relax. So it wasn’t at all surprising that we should find ourselves in the offices of Enterprise Pictures, who if I remember correctly had their smart and well maintained offices on the top floor of the same building as 20th Century Fox, in Soho Square. It’s Managing Director John Hogarth, was a friendly chap who loved to talk about his canal-boating holidays, during which he’d often passed beneath Dudley, using what is said by many to be the second longest canal tunnel in the UK apparently. However that didn’t make getting a deal any easier and he and his faithful secretary Anne, truly felt that his product was worth more that either Derek and myself were prepared to put up front. It took us several visits to secure ‘Kingdom of the Spiders’, 1977; ‘The Comeback’, 1978; ‘Space Cruiser’, 1979: ‘The Magic of Lassie’ 1978; , ‘Bruce Lee: The Man and the Myth’ 1976 and ‘The Redeemer’, 1978. All of the titles were issued as 400′ editions and received releases in our new plastic clam shell cases, which had been designed for our UA relases. ‘Space Cruiser’ was originally a Japanese TV series also known as ‘Star Blazers’ and was such an episodic affair that we were able to produce two entirely seperate releases with the second volume having the sub-title ‘Versus the Gorgons’.
…. to be continued.
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