Ged Jones

  • Collector’s Corner – John Clancy

    Collector’s Corner – John Clancy

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    If you have a story to tell then send it to my email, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter features a gentleman who was part of the clan that helped mount the BFCC in London for many years, he now presents a regular Blu Ray/4K review on You Tube, under the…

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  • Collector’s Corner – Chip Gelmini

    Collector’s Corner – Chip Gelmini

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    If you have a story to tell then send it to my email, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter features Chip Gelmini, a collector from the USA. Chip Gelmini It was 1963 and I was introduced to the Argus Showmaster 500 movie projector. My Dad unwound a few feet of white…

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  • Collector’s Corner – Mark Anthony

    Collector’s Corner – Mark Anthony

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    If you have a story to tell then send it to my email, and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter features a collector and a gent whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a the Blackpool convention where he was helping his dad out. He is a staunch Disney fanatic and…

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  • Collector’s Corner – Shorty Caruso

    Collector’s Corner – Shorty Caruso

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    If you have a story to tell then send it to my email and a photo or two would be nice. This chapter features a collector from the USA and a gent who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Blackpool conventions in 2021 & 2922. Joe “Shorty” Caruso Here goes….”What started in the…

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  • Collector’s Corner – Colin Malin

    Collector’s Corner – Colin Malin

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    This is the first in a series in which film and video collectors relate their tales. [If you have a story to tell then send it to my email and a photo or two would be nice. GED] Our first is from a collector and a kingpin of the original Derann workforce. Memories of my…

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  • Radio

    Radio

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    Even as far back as early as 1977 Derek was always finding new ways to promote Derann and in doing so he established its name in the minds of the people of Wolverhampton and Dudley. There was an large annual weekend fete that was held in Wolverhampton’s West Park and Derann was there selling film…

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  • Kays

    Kays

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    Here’s a post that came into existence due to a small jog of my memory cells, this time in the form of an advert for one of many new online mail-order catalogues that seem to be appearing in adverts on the TV. It’s something that probably only a handful will know about, unless they had…

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  • Sound

    Sound

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    In March, 1978 my Father passed away. He’d survived a number of heart attacks during his final 15 years, and then one came along and just snuffed out his life. He had been a difficult man, with a violent temper and we hadn’t seen eye to eye on many issues, (if any), but he’d mellowed…

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  • Data

    Data

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    Post #31 in this series outlined the printing of lists, newsletters etc and I stated that I didn’t recall a newsletter. However some deep thought, my memory has at last turned up the following facts. There was indeed a newsletter, although it wasn’t monthly and we had to record names and addresses with a typewriter.…

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  • Pazuzu

    Pazuzu

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    Following my meeting with Derek on the Talbot Hotel carpark in 1974, it took several months of dropping into the shop at 171 Stourbridge Road and the increasingly regular visits to his home where Anne and his two lads would make me feel like one of the family, before I noticed that both Derek and…

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