Ged Jones
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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…
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Mountain Films
Read more: Mountain FilmsMuch of this story is just a hazy memory. Suspicion was Alfred Hitchcock’s first film on which he was both producer and director, it was also one of very few to be distributed by RKO Pictures. In the film, a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to be penniless, a…
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Hell Drivers
Read more: Hell DriversFull page from a Films and filming magazie: This 1957 crime thiller receives a 7.2 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Cy Endfield it stars Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan and William Hartnell. A BAFTA nominated film about a rookie trucker trying to expose the rackets run by his boss. PM Films…
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Genghis Khan
Read more: Genghis KhanA three page article from the August 1965 issue of ABC Film Review: This 1965 historical epic receives a 5.8 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Henry Levin it starred Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif and James Mason. Columbia Home Movies released a 200′ colour/silent sound/silent editions. Box art found on the internet.
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Harry Nadler & Delta #1
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Read more: Harry Nadler & Delta #1Many of the UK members will fondly recall the name of Harry Nadler, a quiet but energetic and affable gent who was more than a little consumed by his love of fantasy films. He was a film enthusiast through & through, who brought and sold 16mm, a hobby that would turn into a small business.…