Kronos

An original pressbook heads this entry. A science fiction thriller from 1957, starring Jeff Morrow and one from our contract with Ivy Film.  Ivy Film had purchased many of its titles from NTA (National Telefilm Associates), which had closed down its TV distribution the previous decade. Much of NTAs product was from  Twentieth Century Fox (who owned 50% of NTA), and Republic, hence the choice of titles and TV programming was pretty diverse. ‘Kronos’ had been produced by Robert L Lippert, with his company “Regal Pictures” which in reality was part of 20th Century fox and shot using CinemaScope lenes loaned from Fox, but due to 20th Century-Fox insisting that only its “Top” films would be labelled CinemaScope, Regal’s product used the term “Regalscope” in its films’ credits, however our master material would turn out to be flat. A fine Sci-fi thriller, even in it’s non CinemaScope format, and better than most of the Sci-fi offerings available on Super 8 at the time.

It was sold in plain boxes for at time and some time later these insiped and uninspired labels were introduced, but for one reason or another it was never given the full colour label it richly deserved.