Elvis
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Songs From Tickle Me
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Read more: Songs From Tickle MeWe’d already disscovered the ‘Elvis’ factor when it came to sales and rental with the highly successful package of films from Grand National so to find this in the EMI catalogue was a bonus. Some great musical numbers, all gleaned from early LPs in oder to save money. We released a 400′ a 4×400 and…
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Tickle Me
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Read more: Tickle MeWe’d already discovered the ‘Elvis’ factor when it came to sales and rental with the highly successful package of films from Grand National so to find this in the EMI catalogue was a bonus. Not one of his best films, but one I had enjoyed at the ABC in Wolverhampton when it was first released.…
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G.I. Blues
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Read more: G.I. BluesThis was the second most popular of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and…
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Blue Hawaii
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Read more: Blue HawaiiThis was the best seller of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘G.I. Blues’, ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced…
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Paradise Hawaiian Style
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Read more: Paradise Hawaiian StyleThis was another of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘G.I. Blues’, ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls!, Girls!, Girls!’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced by Hal Wallis…
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
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Read more: Girls! Girls! Girls!This was the third most popular of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘G.I. Blues’, ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced…
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The Early Years #1
Read more: The Early Years #1This is the first of a series of posts that will look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 1 But let’s start in the mid 60s, 10 or so years before I entered…
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Labs – Part 1
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Read more: Labs – Part 1Let me try to recall the production of a film in the early days of Derann. In 1976 Derann was printing in both Standard 8 and Super 8, with production of standard 8mm terminated by 1977/8. Most of our films were printed at Filmatic, a laboratory that had a reputation for variable colour and quality.…
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Elvis
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Read more: ElvisAs my life progressed it reached a few important junctions and here’s one of them. Elvis Presley entered my life in 1963 when I saw the film ‘It Happened At The World’s Fair’ at my local ABC. It wasn’t that I was unaware of his music, his 45s were always being played on the radio,…