Ged Jones
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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…
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Movietone News
Read more: Movietone NewsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 26 Known originally as British Movietone News, this popular weekly cinema newsreel ran from 1929 to 1979 and although I don’t recall these being as big a hit with our cutomers,…
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The United Artists: The Final Contracts
Read more: The United Artists: The Final ContractsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 25 Our second batch of U.A. titles proved just as successful as the first, with only the sales of the 1956 Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis movie ‘Trapeze’ failing to excite…
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Look At Life
Read more: Look At LifeA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 24 Rank Distributors were more than willing when it came to their ‘Look at Life’ shorts, a series of short documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and…
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The United Artists – The Second Contract
Read more: The United Artists – The Second ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 23 Derek’s soft spot for Ethel Merman, a Broadway star who’s voice could fill the Albert Hall without a microphone, really paid off. ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ was…
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Enterprise Pictures Ltd
Read more: Enterprise Pictures LtdA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 22 Although we now had a pretty good range of titles from the likes of United Artists, Rank and EMI, we never felt that we could sit back and and relax.…
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The Pathe Newsreels
Read more: The Pathe NewsreelsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 21 Derek was a great fan of cinema shorts, particularly Pathe Newsreels and Pathe Pictorials. At one time he had several 1600′ 16mm spools just full of newsreels and a handful…
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Scotia-Barber
Read more: Scotia-BarberA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 20 As far as I can remember, during all our regular visits to Soho, we only made two calls to this small but lively 35mm theatrical distributor…. and both times we…
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The United Artists First Contract: #2
Read more: The United Artists First Contract: #2A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 19 The first part of this U.A. post, oiled the cogs in my ‘brain’ and I can now add the following to the first entry in the series. My suggestion that…