EMI
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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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Plague of the Zombie
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Read more: Plague of the ZombieThis was one the titles chosen for our second contract with EMI. The contract was a trail blazer and contained some cracking titles, ‘Spare a Copper’, 1940; ‘Dracula Prince of Darkness’, 1966; ‘Quatermass and the Pit’, 1967; ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’, 1951; and ‘Godzilla Vs the Thing’, 1964, which was never released and was replaced…
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Pathe Pictorial
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Read more: Pathe PictorialDerann had almost 30 Pathe Pictorials by the time we closed our doors, but had started with just a handful from various sources even before I joined in 1975. During that same year we would succeed in signing a contract at EMI which would include a number of Pathe Pictorials: ‘Hollywood’, ‘Auto Cine’, ‘Steamboat Down…
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Horror of Frankenstein
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Read more: Horror of FrankensteinA title from our first EMI contract and in all truth not one of Hammers best Frankenstein outings, but the market was starved of Hammer horrors and this filled that gaping hole admirably. Atmospheric artwork from Marianne Frost and a label that I printed with some satisfaction. Labels courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’ …
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The Lavender Hill Mob
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Read more: The Lavender Hill MobA true Ealing comedy classic and yet another title from our first contract with EMI and like our other Ealing productions was released with the “EMI Golden Classics” umbrella label. This 1951 comedy caper was a film I’d not seen up to that time and It turned out to be a firm favourite of mine.…
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Scars of Dracula
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Read more: Scars of DraculaThis was the best selling title we’d ever released up to that time. A title from our first EMI contract and in all truth not one of Hammers best Dracula outings, but the market was starved of Hammer horrors and this filled that gaping hole admirably. Fantastic artwork from Marianne Frost and a label that…
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The Cruel Sea
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Read more: The Cruel SeaThis Oscar nominated WWII drama was one of the titles from the first deal we did with EMI and due to 125 minute running time it was edited down to 5×400′ and was also available as a 1×400′ highlights edition. An Ealing Studios production that we issued under our “EMI Golden Classics’ umbrella label. The…
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Tin Pan Alley
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Read more: Tin Pan AlleyThis was one of the Pathe Pics we issued under licence from EMI and was made in black and white. It was a short documentary film featuring the activities taking place in London’s famous Denmark Street, also known as ‘Tin Pan Alley’. The idea of the film was to show cinema audiences just how a…
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The Avengers
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Read more: The AvengersWe all knew that episodes from TVs The Avengers would be popular, but we never thought that they would be the success that they were! We had a hard time picking our first titles (The Positive-Negative Man, The Living Dead, The Return of the Cybernauts, From Venus with Love, The Winged Avenger and The See-Through…
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The Dead of the Night
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Read more: The Dead of the NightThis 1945 horror drama was made by the studio that had given us so many wonderful comedies and has become a classic of this form of multi story genre, one that Amicus revived in 1965 with ‘Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors’. It was decided to completely omit the golfing tale altogether (for possible release as…