Paramount
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Cartoon Time
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Read more: Cartoon TimeAs well as the Tom and Jerry’s Warner Brothers and Disney animated shorts we issued a number of titles from Columbia, Paramount and Universal. To save money this label was created and was used from time to time. Designed by Marianne Frost and printed by Ann Ellis in Penkridge. Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at…
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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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Hoppity Goes to Town
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Read more: Hoppity Goes to TownReleased in 1941, under its original title ‘Mr Bugs Goes to Town’, much of this movie’s financial failure was blamed on the fact that it was released on 5 December, just two days before Pearl Harbor was bombed and as a result of that failure Paramount fired Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer and took over…
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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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Lost – Part 1
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Read more: Lost – Part 1In last weeks post I mentioned the American International Pictures (AIP) product we missed out on when AIP closed their London office. Even though, like most London based offices their London agent, a good looking middle-aged lady whose name I can’t remember, had to constantly confer with her US offices, she had insisted that we…