Ged Jones
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The incredible melting man
Read more: The incredible melting manA page article from the March 1978 issue of ABC Film Review. This 1977 Sci-fi horror receives a 4 rating on the IMDb, but this didn’t stop the super 8 collectors making this a popular purchase. An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage. The 400′ release…
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The Disney Deal #2
Read more: The Disney Deal #2For almost 7 years, Derek and myself would make appointments to see a Disney sales manager at their London office, to introduce ourselves and keep our names and that of Derann in their minds. Once we felt that our names and faces had become known and reputable, we slowly began a series of talks, that…
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Drummer of Vengeance
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Read more: Drummer of VengeanceTy Hardin, best remembered as TVs ‘Bronco, a popular western series that ran for 5 years, stars in this Italian made movie. The original title was ‘Il Giorno del Giudizio’, but it has also been viewed under several other names, including ‘Day of Judgment’, ‘Doomsday’ and ‘An Eye for An Eye’. The plot wasn’t anything…
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The Pink Panther Cartoons
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Read more: The Pink Panther CartoonsIt wasn’t their lack of persuasion from United Artists that caused the absence of a selection of this Chaplinesque characters antics in the Derann sales catalogues, no this ‘Pink Pests’ name was constantly brought into every conversation we had with our contact at UA, (head of TV sales… as they didn’t have a 16mm/8mm sales…
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Labs #2
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Read more: Labs #2As the title of our films got bigger and better so did their print quality. We now began to use fine grain 16mm or 35mm prints for the labs to produce our negs from. Filmatic was by now a distant memory and we now used Rank Labs at Denham and Buck Labs in Slough. David…
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Collector’s Corner – Nick Dunn
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Read more: Collector’s Corner – Nick DunnIf you have a story to tell, send it to my personal messenger, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter is written by a former Derann staff member Nick Dunn, who worked along side Adrian Simmonds in the TV and Hi-Fi Department for more than thirty years. Nick Dunn Hi Ged. I…
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The Disney Deal #1
Read more: The Disney Deal #1There was already a friendly business relationship between Walt Disney and Derann or should I say Disney and Derek Simmonds, when I joined the company in 1975. At that time Walt Disney had their own world wide and well established 8mm sales catalogue and issued numerous 6-8 minute edited sequences and highlights from their theatrical…
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What a Carry On! – Carry On Sergeant: 1958
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Read more: What a Carry On! – Carry On Sergeant: 1958CARRY ON SERGEANT: 1958 In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a new comedy film series. ‘Carry On Sergeant’ was the UKs third most successful film of that year and the series would continue into the 1990s. There was some talk of a revival just a…
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Ten Fingers of Steel
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Read more: Ten Fingers of SteelIt’s full title was ” Wang Yu – Ten Fingers of Steel”, which played on the popularity of the star of this martial arts drama, Jimmy Wang Yu, who was already a superstar of some substance and had acheived great aclaim in blockbusters like ‘One armed Swordsman’ (1967), which had set new box office records…
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Lost – Part 3
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Read more: Lost – Part 3One of our most outrageous losses, and only because Derek didn’t understand their popularity or their notoriety, were the films of John Waters. Its possible that we may very well have been attending Cannes, Mifed or the AFM in L.A., but no, I believe we were in an office somewhere in London searching as was…