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Decades before the video revolution of the late 1970s/early 1980s, there was a small but devoted market for home films in the 16 mm, 9,5 mm, 8 mm, and Super 8 mm film market. Because most individuals in the United States owning projectors did not have one equipped with sound, vintage silent films were particularly well-suited for the market.
Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via independent film stores. Black-and-white 8 mm film is still manufactured in the Czech Republic, and several companies buy bulk quantities of 16 mm film to make regular 8 mm by re-perforating the stock ...
Derann was founded in 1964 by Derek Simmonds (23 December 1935 - 19 September 2002) [4] and his wife Anne, whose first names made up the company title. Originally renting out 8 mm films from a spare bedroom in their Stourbridge home, their business gradually grew, and eventually they relocated to offices to downtown Dudley.
Blackhawk Films, from the 1950s through the early 1980s, marketed motion pictures on 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film. Most were vintage one- or two-reel short subjects, usually comedies starring Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and other famous comedy series of the past.
The Samuel Goldwyn Company; Screen Guild Productions Inc. Selznick International Pictures; The Solax Company; Sono Art-World Wide Pictures; Sony Pictures; Strand Releasing; Striped Entertainment; Technicolor; Thanhouser Company; The Weinstein Company; THINKFilm; Tiffany Studios; Trans-Lux; Transatlantic Pictures; Triangle Film Corporation ...
Pages in category "Film distributors of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 333 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Official Films continued to fill orders for its home-movie line until 1980. The catalog was then restricted to the company's all-time best-sellers, with many titles from the late 1940s still in print. [citation needed] From 1969 to 1971, the company was known as Official Industries.
8mm 2, a 2005 direct-to-video thriller film Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination.