Derann Contracts and Rights
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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…
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The Iver Deal
Read more: The Iver DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 32 Some things are never meant to be and our deal with Iver Film Services was one such case. I can’t recall how or why, but whatever the reason, all I…
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The Warner Brothers Deal
Read more: The Warner Brothers DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 31 I wasn’t involved at all in the negotiations that would lead to the Warner Brothers contract, as by now I’d been entrusted with the everyday running of the 8mm department…
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The ITC Contract
Read more: The ITC ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 30 The VHS and Betmax cassette market was booming and the 8mm market was at its lowest since I had joind the company. In order to keep Derann alive we had…
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Miracle Films Ltd
Read more: Miracle Films LtdA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 29 Another supplier of many 16mm titles for the Derann library was Miracle Films. Situated in Wardor Street, their offices were only small but they they were clean and beutifully tidy.…
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The Columbia Deal
Read more: The Columbia DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 28 The tale of the “Columbia” deal was one of our most spectacular, prior to the Disney contract, however it’s also one of our most heartbreaking! There had been long and…
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Avco Embassy
Read more: Avco EmbassyA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 27 Avco Embassy’s offices where situated on the ground floor of “Hammer House” in Wardour Street and as we entered I was more than just a little excited at the prospect…
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Movietone News
Read more: Movietone NewsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 26 Known originally as British Movietone News, this popular weekly cinema newsreel ran from 1929 to 1979 and although I don’t recall these being as big a hit with our cutomers,…
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The United Artists: The Final Contracts
Read more: The United Artists: The Final ContractsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 25 Our second batch of U.A. titles proved just as successful as the first, with only the sales of the 1956 Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis movie ‘Trapeze’ failing to excite…
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Look At Life
Read more: Look At LifeA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 24 Rank Distributors were more than willing when it came to their ‘Look at Life’ shorts, a series of short documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and…