[…] you like to do a management buyout? So in 1980, we said yes, please, we will do that. And there were really two divisions of Gateway at that time, a distribution division, which Imperial had moved to Bristol, and they weredistributing all the educational films run by a chap called Derek Littlechild[…]
[…]ision. We would then be able to sell that and that would be so in effect. It turned out a partnership made it much cheaper for them. And they got the distribution. In fact we were distributing outside of their orbit as it was and they had to pay for that service product exposure as well. Yeah it was[…]
[…]et a combined print for us within the month? Because if you can, we've got a six week West End spot we can put you in and it will give you world wide distribution ex-television." Wonderful deal! So we're all very pleased. Then Ken Shipman says, "Look here Vernon, my cousin, Mick Shipman (who was in […]
[…]umably the outlets were not only in the cinemas but, I mean, obviously some of the more specialised ones, they were probably... did you have your own distribution, sort of internal screenings, private screenings and so on?Pat Jackson: Well I think there was a non-theatrical circuit.John Legard: Non-[…]
[…]ocess blue film the nightshift unofficially to monitors were attached to the studios distribution side. You had because you had entered a very busy MGM had a lab&nbs[…]
[…]always doing something in the zoo. So, these were the four Fs. We did a lot of fashion stuff, a tremendous amount of football. This was important for distribution purposes because exhibitors reckoned football was the stuff that brought the public in and in certain areas it was, so you were often goi[…]
[…] and I got to know more people, and I got to know the way the film industry worked, technically, the financing of the film industry, box office, film distribution, production, the economics of film production. Film distribution was my specialty, so it served me in good stead and the encouragement I […]
