Ged Jones
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The Slipper and the Rose
Read more: The Slipper and the RoseA three page article from the April 1976 issue: This 1976 musical fantasy receives a 6.9 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie and Margaret Lockwood. An Oscar nominated musical retelling of the classic tale of Cinderella, with songs by the Sherman brothers. This received a…
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Credit
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Read more: CreditI’m sure I don’t need to remind you just what an expensive hobby film collecting was and trust me Derann, Walton and the other 8mm distributors were not raking in a fortune! By the time the cost for the rights for a title, the master material, the royalty for each print, the negative cost, the…
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At the Earth’s Core
Read more: At the Earth’s CoreA ½ page from the September 1976 issue: This 1976 adventure fantasy receives a 5.0 rating on the IMDb. This was the second of a number of adaptations of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and is a great piece of escapism. Directed by Kevin Connor it features Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro.…
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Tape #2
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Read more: Tape #2Our early video cassette releases were all acquired from the same trusted UK distributors and agents that we had been using for our 8 and 16mm releases. Miracle Films supplied titles like ‘Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle’; ‘Blue Belle’; ‘Monsters from an Unknown Planet’, ‘The Fiend’ and ‘Cannibal’, a quick phone call to Tom Blakeley would…
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The Black Stallion
Read more: The Black StallionA page article from the July 1980 issue: This 1979 family adventure receives an 7.4 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Carroll Ballard and starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney and Teri Garr. This Oscar nominated movie follows the the drama of a young lad is shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa…
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Simon McConway
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Read more: Simon McConwayIf you have a story to tell send it to my email and a photo or two would be nice. My interest in 8mm really started with film making on Super 8, something I continue to do to this very day. Hearing about Amateur Cine Enthusiast in around 1994, I decided to subscribe and it…
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Harry Nadler & Delta #2
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Read more: Harry Nadler & Delta #2We now fast forward to 1988 and Harry, still thirsting for all things film, is taking a course on genre movies at Manchester University. Here he makes the acquaintance of Gil Lane-Young and after a few months they decide to form a film society to show and discuss genre movies. Harry invites his old friend…
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Rabid
Read more: RabidA page article from the January 1978 issue of ABC Film Review: This 1977 Sci-Fi horror receives a 6.3 rating on the IMDb. Directed by the specialist in body horrors David Cronenberg and starred Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore and Terri Hanauer. Surgery leaves a Montreal motorcyclist with a bloodsucking appendage in her armpit and soon…