Ged Jones
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The 3rd Rank Contract
Read more: The 3rd Rank ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 16 Things were moving fast and business was even brisker, but every thing was beginning to feel the effect of VHS & Betamax video. We no longer took all the titles…
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The Pathe Pictorals
Read more: The Pathe PictoralsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 15 Beginning in 1918, Pathe Pictorial was the longest running series in the history of the British cinemagazine, being in continuous production for over fifty years. It established the general format…
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Grand National Pictures
Read more: Grand National PicturesA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 14 Derek was no stranger to the office of Maurice Wilson, the MD of Grand National Pictures, together they had completed a dozen deals and counting. Just a quick glance in…
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Supreme
Read more: SupremeA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 13 You’d assume that we would take time off and concentrate on the numerous titles acquired from EMI, Rank and Tigon, that wasn’t Derek’s style at all and we never ceased…
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EMI: The Second Contract
Read more: EMI: The Second ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 12 It would seem that EMI were more than pleased with the way things were moving with the batch of titles from the first…
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Rank Film Distributors… The Second Contract
Read more: Rank Film Distributors… The Second ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 11 The ‘royalty returns’ following our first deal with Rank must have hit the right note at their offices, because in less than six…
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EMI: The 1st contract. #2
Read more: EMI: The 1st contract. #2A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 10 Our first contract with EMI was for just six titles, however as most of you will remember a number of episodes of the…
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The Tigon Deal
Read more: The Tigon DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 9 Our adverts in Movie Maker show that the number of new titles we were producing was now enough to fill an entire page…
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EMI: The 1st contract. #1
Read more: EMI: The 1st contract. #1A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. EMI: The 1st contract. #1Contracts & Rights Chapter 8 Once we had our foot in the door at Rank Film Distributors and the sales of most of their…
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The First Rank Contract #2
Read more: The First Rank Contract #2A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 7 We spent many hours poring over that catalogue, and remember the Rank catalogue contained vast quantities of titles they distributed theatrically from Universal,…