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Long John Silver
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Read more: Long John SilverThis 1954 Australian made swashbuckler, is a sequel of sorts to Walt Disney’s first live action movie “Treasure Island”, released four years earlier in 1950. Robert Newton’s performance as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of today’s stereotypical “Arrrrr”-laced pirate and he would continue in…
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The Quatermass Experiment
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Read more: The Quatermass ExperimentThis is perhaps one of the most celebrated Science Fiction thrillers of all time and was the one that put back the word ‘Great’ in Great British films, but it’s also the thriller that put Hammer Films on the road to becoming the worlds favourite horror movie studios. Based on the 1953 BBC 6 part…
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Invaders From Mars
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Read more: Invaders From MarsI know that like myself this will surprise many of you! This was a title that I’d always associated with Mountain Films, but it would seem that Derann was the original owner of the 8mm rights and that at some point, Derek and Peter Burt, of Mountain Films, traded the rights of some their titles.…
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Read more: The Fall of the House of UsherThis film, which is somewhat of an oddity and and is now getting regular showings on ‘Talking Pictures’ in the UK. It was made by the low-budget company, GIB Films, produced by Ivan Barnett, who also worked as director and cinematographer. The film was made in 1948, but it wasn’t released until 1950. It was…
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The Flesh Eaters
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Read more: The Flesh EatersThis little gem was released to theaters in the USA in 1964, however it wasn’t until it was re-released in 1968 that ‘Grand National Pictures’ (GNP) got around to releasing it in the UK. Over the years the film has developed a cult following due to its gruesome, if somewhat primitive, special effects, including some…
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Psycho
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Read more: Psycho“Derann Film Services, that very enterprising library, enters the package movie market with a bang – or do I mean scream? For here is one of the most famous modern shock sequences in modern cinema, now available for shrieking at, or dissective study, in your own home. Very nicely abridged into eight minutes that include…
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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…