Miscellaneous
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The Magnetic Slurry Applicator
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Read more: The Magnetic Slurry ApplicatorThis first image shows the view of the applicator from the side. One third of this is lowered into the slurry reservoir and is spinning anti-clockwise. It was 5 centimeters wide and had 4 raised ridges which will be covered in the slurry. Then a comb passes over the applicator and removes the slurry from…
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What a Carry On! – Carry On Nurse: 1959
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Read more: What a Carry On! – Carry On Nurse: 1959In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Nurse’ was the second in the series, but despite it being the UKs most successful film of that year it didn’t receive a page to itself in the ABC Film Review, just…
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The Pink Panther Cartoons
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Read more: The Pink Panther CartoonsIt wasn’t their lack of persuasion from United Artists that caused the absence of a selection of this Chaplinesque characters antics in the Derann sales catalogues, no this ‘Pink Pests’ name was constantly brought into every conversation we had with our contact at UA, (head of TV sales… as they didn’t have a 16mm/8mm sales…
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What a Carry On! – Carry On Sergeant: 1958
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Read more: What a Carry On! – Carry On Sergeant: 1958CARRY ON SERGEANT: 1958 In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a new comedy film series. ‘Carry On Sergeant’ was the UKs third most successful film of that year and the series would continue into the 1990s. There was some talk of a revival just a…
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Derann and its Standard 8 Prints of Psycho… Uncensored?
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Read more: Derann and its Standard 8 Prints of Psycho… Uncensored?There will be a number of readers who know the story concerning our deal from 1968/9, a landmark contract for Derann in which we acquired the rights to several Universal/Paramount titles that included ‘The Evil of Frankenstein’, ‘Magnificent Obsession’, ‘Flower Drum Song’, ‘The Mummy’, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘To Hell and Back’, ‘Blue Skies’ and its…