United Artists
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42nd Street – Part 2
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Read more: 42nd Street – Part 2With the line “you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!” being remembered to this day, this film was the beginning of a series of movie musical extravaganzas that has never been equaled. This was the very first film from our highly successful UA deal that was edited and hit…
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Key Largo
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Read more: Key LargoAs far as I recall this title along with ‘New York, New York’ and ‘Trapeze’ were the only films from the UA deals that received a single 400′ release. Claire Trevor won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, but this picture belongs to Edward G. Robinson as Rocco and Humphrey Bogart. It…
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Rollerball – Part 1
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Read more: Rollerball – Part 1One of the UA titles from the first contract and one that Derek edited using a portable 35mm projector! It was this film and the now regular use of 35mm as master material that lead us to use Ken Locke & Keith Wilton to do much of our editing. Label was designed by our regular…
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The Sea Hawk #2
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Read more: The Sea Hawk #2The quality of our black and white prints of this magnificent Errol Flynn swashbuckler was out of this world, as were the majority of the films that we issued from United Artists. UA themselves felt they were special when we presented them with the new plastic clamshell cases and the classy label, which was designed…
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The United Artists: The Final Contracts
Read more: The United Artists: The Final ContractsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 25 Our second batch of U.A. titles proved just as successful as the first, with only the sales of the 1956 Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis movie ‘Trapeze’ failing to excite…
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The United Artists – The Second Contract
Read more: The United Artists – The Second ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 23 Derek’s soft spot for Ethel Merman, a Broadway star who’s voice could fill the Albert Hall without a microphone, really paid off. ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ was…
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The United Artists First Contract: #2
Read more: The United Artists First Contract: #2A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 19 The first part of this U.A. post, oiled the cogs in my ‘brain’ and I can now add the following to the first entry in the series. My suggestion that…
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The United Artists First Contract: #1
Read more: The United Artists First Contract: #1A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 18 The road we traveled in order to aquire the United Artists deal was prolonged, stressful and only came about because I’d suggested “that we should give UA a try, we’d…
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Rights – Part 2
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Read more: Rights – Part 2We never gave up hunting for film rights and very soon signed a contract with Enterprise, who I’m sure had offices on the top floor of the same building as 20th Century Fox, where we picked up ‘Kingdom of the Spiders’, ‘The Comeback’, ‘The Magic of Lassie’, ‘Bruce Lee: The Man and the Myth’ and…