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Crazy Comedies
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Read more: Crazy ComediesThe second label of this series is another rather obscure item. Like so many 8mm film distributors it would seem that Derann released a number of 200′ black and white comedies from the silent era. A simple music track would accompany the on screen antics. This label was not only printed in store it was…
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The Derann Labels: Pathe News
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Read more: The Derann Labels: Pathe NewsFollowing my chance encounter with Peter Brooke, at the 2019 Blackpool convention and the opportunity to scan some of my missing portfolio of box labels, this the first of a series of posts that will take a look at many of the labels we produced up to around 1978/9 and a section from later releases.…
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EMI: The Final Contract
Read more: EMI: The Final ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 34 By 1979 EMI had become a regular source of product, but when our contact Ken Troy decided to retire we, as always under such circumstances, had to establish fresh relations…
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Rank: The Later Years
Read more: Rank: The Later YearsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 33 Following the first three successful contracts with Rank Film Distributors, the powers that be virtually gave us their blessing to issue almost any of their product on Super 8 with…
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The Iver Deal
Read more: The Iver DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 32 Some things are never meant to be and our deal with Iver Film Services was one such case. I can’t recall how or why, but whatever the reason, all I…
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The Warner Brothers Deal
Read more: The Warner Brothers DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 31 I wasn’t involved at all in the negotiations that would lead to the Warner Brothers contract, as by now I’d been entrusted with the everyday running of the 8mm department…
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The ITC Contract
Read more: The ITC ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 30 The VHS and Betmax cassette market was booming and the 8mm market was at its lowest since I had joind the company. In order to keep Derann alive we had…
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Miracle Films Ltd
Read more: Miracle Films LtdA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 29 Another supplier of many 16mm titles for the Derann library was Miracle Films. Situated in Wardor Street, their offices were only small but they they were clean and beutifully tidy.…
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The Columbia Deal
Read more: The Columbia DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 28 The tale of the “Columbia” deal was one of our most spectacular, prior to the Disney contract, however it’s also one of our most heartbreaking! There had been long and…
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Avco Embassy
Read more: Avco EmbassyA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 27 Avco Embassy’s offices where situated on the ground floor of “Hammer House” in Wardour Street and as we entered I was more than just a little excited at the prospect…