A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers.
Contracts & Rights Chapter 35
G.T.O. Films Ltd and Arcade Records had been founded by Laurence Myers in the early 1970s. I have no memory of where their offices were located, but an appointment was made and after some research by our young contact, it seemed that they had only a handful of films on their roster that included 8 or 16mm rights. Two of them were ‘Phantasm’ and ‘Elvis’ both having had successful theatrical releases. There was nothing else on offer and Derek and I could see that they weren’t very interested in doing a deal for just two titles. However their office walls were plastered in ‘Arcade’ record album sleeves and he kept on showing us the soundtrack album from ‘Elvis’ and quite innocently I mentioned that we could put an advert on the reverse of our extract from ‘Elvis’, and the same for ‘Phantasm’…..and the deal was done!
…. to be continued.
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