Ged Jones
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The Quatermass Xperiment
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Read more: The Quatermass XperimentThis was the full colour label produced by our regular artist Marianne Frost and it replaced the quickie standard 8 label designed by Derek. Based on the 1953 BBC 6 part TV series ‘The Quatermass Experiment’ it exploited the use of the ‘X’ certificate by dropping the ‘E’ and renaming it “The Quatermass Xperiment”, and…
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Tin Pan Alley
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Read more: Tin Pan AlleyThis was one of the Pathe Pics we issued under licence from EMI and was made in black and white. It was a short documentary film featuring the activities taking place in London’s famous Denmark Street, also known as ‘Tin Pan Alley’. The idea of the film was to show cinema audiences just how a…
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The Avengers
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Read more: The AvengersWe all knew that episodes from TVs The Avengers would be popular, but we never thought that they would be the success that they were! We had a hard time picking our first titles (The Positive-Negative Man, The Living Dead, The Return of the Cybernauts, From Venus with Love, The Winged Avenger and The See-Through…
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‘The Nazis’ & ‘The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Germany’
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Read more: ‘The Nazis’ & ‘The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Germany’I can offer very little in the way of information on these two black and white one reel subjects. They were already available for sale when I first joined Derann in 1975 and I do recall Derek telling me about their origins. However that was a long tome ago and all I can bring to…
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Read more: Gulliver’s TravelsThis title along with ‘Hoppity Goes To Town, Copacabana’, ‘Wake of the Red Witch’, ‘Kronos’ and the serial ‘The Adventures of Captain Marvel’ were all part of the contract we had signed with Ivy Film of New York and when I joined in mid 1975, Derek had already printed a simple label for the super…
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Sixty Glorious Years
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Read more: Sixty Glorious YearsAs this colourful historical drama was originally released in 1938. I assume that this was a title Derek had acquired from a UK distributor for a re-release… possibly Grand National. It may have already have been released as a feature in black and white (someone out the may know the answer), however this was a…
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Above Us the Waves
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Read more: Above Us the WavesI can’t for the life of me recall which of the two Rank Distributors ‘submarine’ dramas we issued first. This title or ‘We Dive at Dawn’, but one of them was edited by myself, Derek said try to ‘eliminate as much as possible from the first reel and the rest should be easy!’. This wasn’t…
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The Dead of the Night
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Read more: The Dead of the NightThis 1945 horror drama was made by the studio that had given us so many wonderful comedies and has become a classic of this form of multi story genre, one that Amicus revived in 1965 with ‘Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors’. It was decided to completely omit the golfing tale altogether (for possible release as…
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
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Read more: The Titfield ThunderboltOne of the titles from our first contract with EMI this was a winner in every way. Released theatrically in 1953, it had been made in Technicolor by the Ealing Studio and had a veritable plethera of British actors including Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne, George Relph, Hugh Griffith, Sid James, Reginald Beckwith, John Gregson, and…
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Off the Dole
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Read more: Off the DoleThis 1935 production stars George Formby and was the final film he made at the Manchester based Mancunian Film, before signing up with Associated Talking Pictures. It had been available on both Standard & Super 8 for some time but had never had it’s own label. After the release of ‘No Limit on Super 8…