UK Dealers

Just a few of the many smaller dealers, libraries and accessory Manufacturers

As with the U.K. dealers there was numerous distributors in Europe and the U.S. This was a name that was popular with many UK collectors and regularly advertised in the UK magazines. Well known for their unlicensed Disney releases, releases  that I believe proved to be their undoing.

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.