Ged Jones

Run by husband and wife Tony and Beryl Shapps from their Marylebone premises, these two single-handedly put the word CinemaScope on the lips of collectors. Equipment and films and the organisers of the highly successful Widex conventions.

Many will recognise this regular advertiser in many popular magazines of the time. He offered a ready made range of titles and other products that his customers could use on their finished films. He would also produce bespoke material and Derann used him regularly, we would supply the wording and he would come back with…

Although Lee’s Cameras was well known to Derann and many of our customers would speak of their dealings with them (all good I should add), this is another dealer I haven’t been able to gather any information on…. so their adverts must once again do the talking. However as you’re able to see they were…

Keith Wilton is probably best known for being the organizer of the British Film Collectors Conventions but he also operated a film and video business by the name of Filmtek. This was established around 1981 after Keith took early retirement from his job as a BBC film editor although very soon after retiring he was…

A vast and complicated  industry and one that until the advent of DVD, was a thriving  and occasionally a rather sleazy part of the market, with adverts often taking up whole pages made up of small blocks, with headlines that might read ‘Uncensored Swedish Movies’ or ‘A Private Collection’. Walton Films where producing them as…

This Welsh based company was run by two confirmed film fanatics John Curtis & Ken Smith. John Curtis started with a Bing 35mm projector complete with oil lamp during world war 2 showing films to raise cash for Mrs Churchill’s Red Cross Appeal. Similar to the late David Guest, Ken Smith came from a fairground…

Active in the 16mm market for a number of years before adding 8mm to his ‘Star Movie Pack’ brand name, with the popular Wombles. Their 16mm library which was headed by the RKO product, was added to the Harris film library in 1976.

Based in Hornchurch, Essex, this was a specialist distribution company that catered for the sports fan. They  Issued an excellent selection of soccer movies as well as many other sports, including boxing and golf.

Operating from Wigan by Steve Ellison, this was a popular and busy company. Stocked a great many imports from numerous sources and by special arrangement with Barry Wiles Films these included an excellent selection produed by the National Film Board of Canada. As Steve’s a member of the group I’m hoping that he’ll tell us…

Based in Coventry and run by Peter Adams and his wife. With the demise of his small business Peter would become our head sales rep in the late 70s selling both our film and video releases.