[…]were other people involved in the studio. I can't remember the I mean copies the films that exist anyway. But it had very great difficulty in getting distribution through ranks. I think they didn't want to distribute in wartime but it was. So then. I mean, I think, you know, as far as Merton Park go[…]
[…]d perhaps do something with the Americans. But I don't think they were really interested with the product they had. However, while on the question of distribution, there's one character who I didn't mention yesterday. I did mention Wardour Films, which the release outfit, but the Managing Director o[…]
[…]od time because right at the time it was 50 58.SPEAKER: M258 right. Of course were going great guns at the time in terms of their film production and distribution. And of course they had the clout the films I had Genevieve and doctor the house but they were also distributing Universal Pictures unive[…]
[…]ecauseMichael Legard 45:11 so I guess to the to the third river, I mean, did you was it properly used when it was made and you get proper distribution?John Hargreaves 45:19 Extremely widely out there, but it wasn't 35 and 16. It was showing every cinema in Iraq because really[…]
[…] I was, I tried to get into the industry for quite a long time, and it was not easy to get into, even though my, I had an uncle who was, you know, in distribution and stuff by then and exhibition and made movies and tings.
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[…]o Transylvania and that's where they got married and this is why I was born actually in Cluj and not in Hungary. My father then also took over a book distribution and publishing company which became like theW H Smiths of Romania. There was an amnesty so father could eventually go back to Hungary but[…]
BECTU History Project Interview with Philip Donnellan – documentary, writer, producerInterview Date(s): 28 & 29 June 1991Interview number: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Philip Donnellan: television doc[…]
[…]colour it would have been 3 strip. There was nothing else at that time.DA: How did they get shown these theatrical films, did they have a fairly wide distribution?JL: Yes, the theatrical ones were shown all over Canada in the cinemas, once a month Canada Carries On and World in Action and they were […]
[…]able to hold onAlan Lawson 22:12 long enough. Let's go back a second. Now, the fact that ACT Films made a loss. Do you think this was the distribution and exhibition side of the industry that didn't want them to succeed?Speaker 1 22:32 Well, we always thought that was true, b[…]
