Ged Jones
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The First Rank Contract #1
Read more: The First Rank 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. Contracts & Rights Chapter 6 If you’ve been following the Friday posts you will know that in 1974 I’d been able to get a day off work at the…
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The Early Years #5
Read more: The Early Years #5A 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 5 Before the advent of our first contract with Rank Film Distributors, many of the titles that Derek picked up for 8mm and 16mm distribution/rental,…
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The Early Years #4
Read more: The Early Years #4A 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 4 Within a few days of my joining Derann, Derek had wound up negotiations with Sidney Tagar, of Ivy film in New York and had…
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The Early Years #3
Read more: The Early Years #3A 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 3 At some-point in late 1968 Derek Simmonds for Derann and Tony Powell of Powell Films were both able to clinch deals with MCA (Universal)!…
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The Early Years #2
Read more: The Early Years #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 2 Another old contact of Derek’s, and one I never had the pleasure to meet, was Tom Blakeley. At sometime in the late 60s or…
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The Early Years #1
Read more: The Early Years #1This is the first of a series of posts that will 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 1 But let’s start in the mid 60s, 10 or so years before I entered…
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Collector’s Corner – Humberto Martinez
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Read more: Collector’s Corner – Humberto MartinezIf you have a story to tell send it to my personal messenger, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter written by a resident of sunny Florida Humberto Martinez Ged, it all started when my Dad gave me an 8mm silent projector when I was 8 years old still living in Cuba…
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Collector’s Corner – Joachim Schmidt
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Read more: Collector’s Corner – Joachim SchmidtIf you have a story to tell send it to my email, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter written by a new friend from Germany, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the 2023 Blackpool convention. Joachim Schmidt Ged asked me to write here about my experience with Derann Film…
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Collector’s Corner – Jeff Kinzie
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Read more: Collector’s Corner – Jeff KinzieIf you have a story to tell send it to my email, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter written by Canadian Jeff Kinzie. Short but at least he was good enough to supply an entry. I could not find super 8 anywhere during 1989. So, I heard from a New York…
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Collector’s Corner – Andy Allard
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Read more: Collector’s Corner – Andy AllardIf you have a story to tell then send it to my personal messenger, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter written by Andy Allard who readily admits that it was mainly video cassettes that was his interest. His tale comes in two parts. Video collecting in the 1980s I’d been fully…