Ged Jones
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What a Carry On! – Carry On Cruising: 1962
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Read more: What a Carry On! – Carry On Cruising: 1962In 1958 a British institution was born with the release of the first in a long series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Cruising’ was the sixth in the series. It was the first to be filmed in colour and saw the return of many of the regular team, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Kenneth Williams.…
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Conventions #2
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Read more: Conventions #2In the first of this three part post I tried to outline the work that went into preparing for a visit to a ‘BFCC’, ‘Widex’, ‘Film Fun Day’, ‘The Wessex Film Collectors Convention’ or the like and stated that we would begin at least ten weeks prior to the show. However any event were we…
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Dave’s Story
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Read more: Dave’s StoryIf you have a story to tell send it to my personal messenger, and a photo or two would be nice. Dave Worrall was Derann’s advertising manager and created artwork for newsletters and film labels. It was such a long time ago – almost 30 years ago – when I first went to work for…
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40 Million Bucks
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Read more: 40 Million BucksAnother title we picked up while in the US and one of a fairy large package. Originally released as ‘The Treasure Seekers’, it was also known as ‘Jamaican Gold’, ‘Contraband’ and ‘On A Deadman’s Chest’ and any film with that number of titles spells only one thing, old hat banality! It was a low budget…
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400′ Generic Label
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Read more: 400′ Generic LabelAlong with a number of other designs, this was a label that was used on and off for many years. Label designed by Marianne Frost and printed at Derann by myself. Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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The Disney Deal #6
Read more: The Disney Deal #6Once Maggie was satisfied of Derann’s integrity it wasn’t always necessary to make the journey to the Disney offices in order to agree on the next feature release. It was only natural that we had enquired whether there was any chance of releasing any of their shorts and this opened up a fantastic range of…
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What a Carry On! – Carry On Regardless: 1961
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Read more: What a Carry On! – Carry On Regardless: 1961In September 1958 a British institution was born with the release of the first in a series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Regardless’ was the fifth in the series. By now a fairly regular team was established with Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams all having appeared in previous entries.…
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Mardi Gras Massacre
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Read more: Mardi Gras MassacreAfter all this time I’ve no reccollection of who we purchased the rights for this piece of exploitation, but I know it was acquired on one of our business visits to the States. I’ve read that the film is a loose remake of the Herschell Gordon Lewis film ‘Blood Feast’ and there’s no doubt there…
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Shalako
Read more: ShalakoA two page article from the December 1968 issue: This 1968 western drama receives a 5.6 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins this western features a group of European aristocrats who while hunting in New Mexico in the 1880s come into conflict…
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Conventions #1
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Read more: Conventions #1Many of those who attended “The British Film Collectors Convention”, at any of it’s many venues, or made their way to “Widex” or perhaps even Derann’s own “Northern Film Collectors Convention”, must think we probably just loaded our van, made our way to the site of said show, put the films on a table, watched…