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OLD STOCK – Super 8mm F/L Features – Colour Optical Sound

 

OLD STOCK – Super 8mm F/L Features – Colour Optical Sound

18394 Conduct Unbecoming B+/B £75 (3x800’) P/N: slight fade Rare 1975 drama set in colonial India, during a party a widow of honoured Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the gardens, she accuses a newly arrived junior officer, it stars Michael York, Richard Attenborough & Trevor Howard

 

Super 8mm F/L Features – B/W Sound

17150 The Shadow Strikes B+/B £75 (4x400’) Rare 1937 ‘B’ movie starring Rod La Roque who plays “The Shadow” a masked crime fighter, who investigates a break in at an attorney’s office

17963 Swing High, Swing Low B/B+ £90 (5x400’) Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth & a young Dorothy Lamour in 1937 comedy drama

18509 Blossom Time B+ £80 (2x400’ & 2x600’) Nice DCR print of this 1934 biopic on the life of composer Franz Schubert, it stars Richard Tauber & Jane Baxter

18512 The Glass Mountain B+ £85 (5x400’) Nice DCR print of 1949 Drama set just after WW2, which has some splendid music, it stars Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison & Valentino Cortese

18604 Miracle on Main Street B+ £85 (4x400’) %are import of 1939 drama starring Margo, about a lonely dancer who finds an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve, which changes her approach to life

18733 Windbag the Sailor B+ £120 (2x1000’ adapted tape spools) Fine British comedy from 1936 starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott & Graham Moffatt. Hay plays a boasting sea Captain into commanding an unseaworthy ship so the owner can sink it and claim the insurance money on it

18739 The Bohemian Girl B+ £100 (4x400’) Rare print of 1936 Laurel & Hardy comedy musical, Stan & Ollie have been raising an abandoned child, but Ollie’s ex-wife stolen the baby from the local Count, years later she is caught trespassing on his land, will the truth get out!

18741 The Man of the Frontier (a.k.a. Red River Valley) B+/B £75 (3x400’) Gene Autry stars along with Smiley Burnette, the pair help the local irrigation company, as some locals want to block a new Dam, and some of their tactics are pretty nasty, plenty of action, with the odd song thrown in!

18751 Movie Struck (a.k.a. Pick a Star) B+/B £85 (4x400’) Made in 1937, it’s a Cinderella story of a country girl who goes to Hollywood, finds movie stardom, it stars Jack Haley & Rosina Lawrence, but more famous for the cameos of Laurel & Hardy (playing a comedy send up of themselves)

18785 The Adventures of Captain Marvel B+/B £240 (12x400’) Rare complete serial from 1941 starring Tom Tyler as “Captain Marvel”, as a young boy he is given the task to protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, all he has to say is “Shazam!” to turn into an adult super hero

18798 Reign of Terror B+ £90 (5x400’) F/L print of this 1949 costume drama set in the French revolution, ‘Robespierre’ has lost his black book which has a list of names marked for death by Guillotine, but if it got into the wrong hands, things might turn out very different

 

Super 8mm F/L Features – B/W Silent

16605 America (a.k.a. Love and Sacrifice) (runs at 18 f.p.s.) B+ £100 OB 1924 D.W. Griffith silent classic, Blackhawk Films import, it tells of a family caught up in the American Civil War

18287 The Wizard of Oz B+ £120 (4x400’) OB Niles Films import of 1925 version starring Dorothy Dwan (as Dorothy), it stars and directed by Larry Semon, it even has Oliver Hardy in it too!

18773 The Hunchback of Notre Dame print B+ master material B (printed through marks) £75 (9x200’) OB Collectors Club print of this famous 1923 production starring Lon Chaney (Sr.) as the Hunchback ‘Quasimodo’

 

 

 

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm Edited Features – Colour Sound

17930 Charly B+ £90 (5x400’) OB This stars Cliff Robertson in an Oscar winning performance of a simple man who after an experiment gives him super intelligence, but will it last? ABC films release which retains pretty good colour overall, it runs about 80 minutes in total!

 

Standard 8mm Edited Features – Colour Sound

17852 Hannie Caulder B/B+ £65 (3x600’) Walton print with good colour of this Raquel Welch, Robert Culp & Ernest Borgnine 1971 revenge Western adventure

 

Super 8mm Edited Features – B/W Sound

15825 The Sword of Monte Cristo B+/B £55 (2x600’) 1951 Swashbuckling tale set in France in 1858, Paula Corday & George Mongomery star, has she found the “Treasure of Monte Cristo”

17142 The Fabulous Dorsey’s B+ £65 (4x400’) OB Made in 1947 it stars Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey who play themselves in the story of their rise in American music of the 1940’s

17371 Casbah B/B+ £65 (4x400’) Tony Martin & Yvonne De Carlo star in this 1948 story of of a French Jewell thief in the Casbah in Algiers

18630 The Chiltern Hundreds B+ £85 (4x400’) Derann release of 1949 comedy starring David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker & Gladys Boot, Tomlinson gets leave from the Army after saying he was running as an M.P. but really wants to marry his girlfriend, things go wrong & he has to campaign!

18735 Top Hat B+/B £85 (2x800’) Mountain Films slightly edited edition of this Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers comedy musical from 1935, glorious music, and the dancing isn’t to bad either!

18736 The Hunchback of Notre Dame B+ to B+/B £85 (2x800’) Mountain Films release of this 1939 RKO classic starring Charles Laughton (‘Quasimodo’) and Maureen O’Hara (‘Esmerelda’), Gypsy girl Esmerelda is framed for a murder, and only Quasimodo can save her from the gallows

18740 The Naked and the Dead B+ £75 (4x400’) WW2 movie from 1958 starring Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson & Raymond Massey, the U.S. is fighting the Japanese in the Pacific as well as each other!

18742 Our Relations B+ £85 (2x600’) Super Laurel & Hardy comedy from 1936, two sets of long lost twin brothers collide in a series of hi-jinks and mistaken identity, also mixed up in the plot are some gangsters and a valuable ring, what more could you want from a L&H movie!

 

Standard 8mm F/L Features – B/W Sound

18707 Old Mother Riley M.P. B+ £65 (4x400’) Rare 1939 British comedy starring Arthur Lucan (Dragged up as OMR), OMR loses her laundry job and battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election battle, it also stars his real life wife Kitty McShane playing OMR’s daughter

 

Standard 8mm Edited Features – B/W Sound

16778 Rose of Cimmaron B+/B £50 (4x400’) 1952 Western starring Jack Buetel, a white girl raised by Native Indians sets out to find who murdered her adoptive parents, a white Marshall helps her out

16796 Tension at Table Rock B+/B £55 (4x400’) OB 1956 Western starring Richard Egan and Dorothy Malone, a gunslinger agrees to deliver a boy to his uncle in Table Rock

18500 The Enforcer (a.k.a. Murder Inc.) B+/B £65 (4x400’) Humphrey Bogart & Zero Mostel star in tough crime thriller from 1951, Bogart’s D.A. prosecutes the boss of crime syndicate Murder Inc.

18501 The Man in Grey B to B+/B £65 (5x400’) James Mason stars as Lord Rohan, a brute of a man, who only wants heirs, he marries a pretty girl (Phyllis Calvert), but has affairs on the side, and cares little for his actual wife, in this fine Historical drama

18502 The One That Got Away B+/B £70 (5x400’) True WW2 story of the only German escape from a British prisoner of war camp, Hardy Kruger stars as the cocky German fighter pilot, well made!

 

OLD STOCK – Standard 8mm Edited Features – B/W Sound

18508 To Be or Not to Be B+/B £65 (1x600’ & 2x400’) Comedic drama set in Poland during WW2, Jack Benny stars, an acting Troupe help a Polish soldier to find a German spy

 

Super 8mm Mini Features – Colour Sound

15149 The Gondoliers B+/B £30 (3x400’) Only fair colour on this DCR release of the Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta (condensed version), it has a few splices in places, but rare now

17467 25 Years (1952-77) B+/B £65 (3x400’) P/N: slight fade EMI Films documentary made for the Silver Jubilee in 1977, it looks at the first 25 years of the reign of the late Queen, Elizabeth II, with many rare private moments and big state occasions as well, very rare now!

15393 Ruddigore B+ £45 (1x800’ & 1x400’) DCR print of this condensed Gilbert & Sullivan light Operetta, great music, rare print now!

18506 The Longest Yard (a.k.a. The Mean Machine) B+ £95 OB Nice colour on well edited 1974 prison drama starring Burt Reynolds as a washed up American Football player who lands himself in prison, where the guards have a team, and Burt has to field a team from the cons to take them on

 

Super 8mm Mini Features – B/W Sound

18581 The Flying Deuces B+ £85 (3x400’) Laurel & Hardy’s 1939 comedy, Ollie joins the Foreign Legion to forget as he fell in love with a married woman, Stan comes along to help him forget too!

18597 All in Good Fun B+ £75 (3x400’) 1955 Bob Monkhouse film showing us some of the best stars from the silent era, comedy, drama etc. all featured, Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops and more!

 

Standard 8mm Mini Features – B/W Silent

17332 Seven Keys to Baldpate B+ £55 (2x600’) 1917 thriller starring George M. Cohan (Yankee Doodle Dandy composer) in his acting debut, he bets his friend he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours, he writes in his friends Baldpate Inn, supposedly closed for the winter, so there should be no interruptions, but people keep turning up, can he finish, but why are people coming now!

 

Super 8mm 30-35 Minutes – Colour Sound

16634 The Man and the Earth – The Virgin Forest of Venezuela B+ £30 (600’) OB Fine colour print to this fascinating nature documentary

17836 Golden Rendezvous B+ £35 (600’) Thriller based on an Alistair MacLean story, it stars Richard Harris & Ann Turkel, a gang is trying to steal Gold from a ship, still pretty good colour

17990 When The North Wind Blows Pt.s 1 & 2 B+ £45 (2x400’) Here’s the first two reels from the Walton adventure/nature film from 1974, nice colour on both parts as well

18553 The Groove Tube B+/B £60 (600’) Nice colour on this Iver Films print of this 1974 comedy which is a series of skits taking the pi** out of U.S. TV, has some adult humour though!

18612 Redneck B+ £45 (600’) Pretty good colour to 1973 crime thriller with Franco Nero & Telly Savalas, a heist goes wrong, turns into a kidnapping, well edited from Iver Films

18628 Black Beauty B+ £55 (2x400’) OB Nice colour Walton digest of this 1971 version of the famous story of a Horse, it stars Mark Lester (Oliver), Walter Slezak & Patrick Mower

18713 As Long as They’re Happy B+ £55 (600’) OB 1955 British comedy musical with Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott & Diana Dors, Good colour print too!

18762 Caravan to Vaccares B+/B £45 (2x400’) OB SCOPE Iver Films digest of the 1974 thriller based upon an Alistair Maclean book, it stars Charlotte Rampling and David Birney who are hired to escort a scientist to New York, but other people want him too, it has pretty good colour, typical 1970’s colour palette

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 30-35 Minutes – B/W Sound

16594 Evergreen B+ £35 (600’) OB PM Films digest of this 1934 British musical starring Jessie Matthews as a music hall star with a secret, nice print too!

17802 The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand – Chapter 1 B/B+ £35 (600’) Unusual find, 1st episode of a 15-part 1936 serial, simple plot fake gold, stolen notebook etc.

17979 Hollywood and the Stars – The Swashbucklers B+ £55 (600’) TV documentary looking at some of the best Swashbuckling films & their actors like Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn

18202 The Plow that broke the Plains B+ £45 (2x400’) OB 1936 documentary about how farming practices turned fertile land into dustbowls of the 1930’s, Blackhawk import, rare!

18256 Dark Waters B/B+ £45 (2x400’) 1944 mystery drama starring Merle Oberon & Franchot Tone, a survivor of a U Boat attack comes home to find someone wants her dead for her inheritance

18286 Shall We Dance B+/B £55 (2x400’) OB Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers musical from 1937, the pair pose as a married couple who actually end up falling in love, classic music & dance

18370 Sing as We Flow B+ £50 (2x400’) Documentary looking at waterways around the world, Venice, the Thames and Henley are both featured, made in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s, unusual!

18392 Under The River B+ £55 (500’) OB BTF production from 1959, it looks at the construction of the Severn tunnel, and the efforts using Cornish steam beam engines to keep the tunnel dry

18448 Hollywood and the Stars – The Immortal Jolson B+/B £45 (600’) TV documentary looking at the career & films of legendary Al Jolson, and how his voice was the very 1st heard in a feature film

18517 Footlight Parade B+ £55 (2x400’) OB Derann print of classic 1933 comedy musical starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell & Ruby Keeler, together with fantastic Busbey Berkeley numbers

18521 42nd Street B+/B £55 (2x400’) Fine Busbey Berkeley staged musical numbers, here edited in correct order, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels & Ruby Keeler star, nice B/W Derann print

18595 Hollywood and the Stars – The One and Only Bing B+ £55 (2x400’) TV documentary looking at the career in films of legendary crooner Bing Crosby, many clips as well!

18611 A Night at the Opera B+ £65 (2x400’) OB Superbly edited classic Marx Bros. comedy from 1935, Groucho is shanghaied into taking an aspiring Opera singer to America, just brilliant!

18627 Hollywood and the Stars – The Fabulous Musicals B+ £55 (600’) TV documentary that looks at the classic musicals from Hollywood, many clips, wonderous stars!

18710 Whirlpool B+ £55 (2x400’) Walton digest of this 1959 crime thriller starring Juliette Greco, O.W. Fischer & William Sylvester, a woman is on the run from her murderous former partner

18724 Hollywood and the Stars – The Swashbucklers B+ £55 (600’) TV documentary looking at some of the best Swashbuckling films & their actors like Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn

18734 Beau Hunks B+ £75 (800’) F/L imported Blackhawk Films print of this rare 1931 Laurel & Hardy comedy, Ollie is jilted by his girlfriend, so decides to join the Foreign Legion to forget, and Stan comes along to forget too!

18738 This is Your Life – Laurel & Hardy B+ £75 (600’) Extremely rare U.S. import of this 1954 American show which featured the great Laurel & Hardy, together with some adverts promoting the show, this is one for any true Laurel & Hardy fan!

18761 Dames B+ £50 (2x400’) Nice Derann B/W print of this 1934 Busbey Berkeley musical comedy starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, well edited too!

 

Standard 8mm 30-35 Minutes B/W Sound

16588 Hollywood and the Stars – The Immortal Jolson B+ £35 (2x400’) TV documentary looking at the career & films of legendary Al Jolson, and how his voice was the very 1st heard in a feature film

 

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 30-35 Minutes Colour Silent

16355 Vintage Aircraft No.2 B+ £25 (600’) Amateur footage that features many vintage aircraft, like the Harrier Jump Jet, a Flying Fortress Bomber, as well as the Red Arrows and much more

 

Super 8mm 30-35 Minutes B/W Silent

17815 Dollars and Sense B+ £45 (2x400’) Blackhawk print of 1916 comedy starring Ora Carew & Joseph Belmont, inheritance, money and marriage play a large part in this tale

18438 The Sawmill B+ £45 (2x400’ @ 500’ in total) OB F/L Blackhawk print of 1922 Mack Sennett comedy, Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy star, Semon is after his bosses daughter hand in marriage, while trying to avoid his bullying Foreman (Hardy), sight gags galore, well made as well!

 

Standard 8mm 30-35 Minutes B/W Silent

16694 Blood and Sand B+/B £30 (2x400’ @ 500’ in total) Highlights from the Rudolph Valentino from 1922, he plays a Toreador who has an affair, rare digest now!

17495 The Block Signal B+/B £45 (2x400’) Perry’s print of 1926 Railways thriller, the railways are changing from a moving arm signal to red and green lights, but nobody has thought about testing drivers for colour blindness, which leads to a spectacular head on crash between 2 Loco’s

17614 The Fighting Eagle B+ £45 (2x400’) Warner Bros./Pathe 1927 release about a Brigadier in Napolean’s army who exposes a traitor, the colourfully named Rod la Roque stars…Rare!

18025 Metropolis B+ £55 (2x400’) Rare digest version of Fritz Lang’s seminal 1927 Sci-Fi classic, it includes a lot of the famous images and scenes associated with this film

 

Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Sound

13500 The Virgin and the Gypsy B+/B £20 OB Iver print of this D.H. Lawrence adaptation, it stars Franco Nero and Joanna Shimkus, quite rare now!

17839 Mickey’s Memorable Moments B+/B £25 OB Nice colour, Disney Mickey Mouse

highlights reel with clips from ‘Magician Mickey’ – ‘Brave Little Tailor’ – ‘Mickey’s Delayed Date’ – ‘Mickey and the Seal’ & ‘Simple Things’

17851 Hannie Caulder B+ £25 Both Walton extracts from this revenge Western starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp & Ernest Borgnine, it still has nice colour too!

17906 The Freedom Train B+/B £25 P/N: slight fade Rare Interurban import that looks at a Southern Pacific 4-8-4 train that toured America during the Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976

17918 The Ten Commandments Pt.2 B+ £15 pretty good colour Marketing print of this 2nd part from the 3-part Charlton Heston Biblical classic directed by Cecil B. DeMille

17919 The Erotic Adventures of Zorro Pt.1 B+ £15 Pretty good colour on early Derann release with a sexed-up version of the Zorro story, one of Derann’s first big sellers!

17986 Superman the Movie B+/B £15 OB P/N: short titles Pretty good colour on this first outing for Christopher Reeve’s ‘Man of Steel’ it also stars Gene Hackman & Margot Kidder

18406 Lawrence of Arabia B+/B £15 OB P/N: slight fade Rare digest of this Columbia Home Movies release of the David Lean classic starring Peter O’Toole as ‘Lawrence

18050 Capital City B+ £15 P/N: slight fade Fletcher Films print of this 1950’s travelogue looking at the famous London landmarks, narrated by Eamonn Andrews

18055 Blue Hawaii £25 OB Pretty good colour on this Elvis Presley musical with many classic songs shoe-horned into the running time, nice reel!

18103 Mickey’s Memorable Moments B+ £30 OB Fine colour on this Disney highlights reel with sections from Mickey’s best cartoons – ‘Magician Mickey’ – ‘Brave Little Tailor’ – ‘Mickey’s Delayed Date’ – ‘Mickey and the Seal’ & ‘Simple Things’

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Sound

18157 Tarka the Otter B+ £25 OB Good colour on this rare Walton digest of this 1979 story of an Otter, narrated by Peter Ustinov as well!

18161 The Ten Commandments Pt.2 B+ £15 pretty good colour Marketing print of this 2nd part from the 3-part Charlton Heston Biblical classic directed by Cecil B. DeMille

18214 101 Dalmatians B+/B £25 Both Disney extracts together on 1 reel from the classic animated feature ‘191 Dalmatians’, pretty good colour too!

18274 Easter Parade B+ £14 OB P/N: slight fade Judy Garland and Fred Astaire star in this famous M.G.M. musical classic, well edited too!

18344 Royal Visit Newsreel – Isle of Wight B+ £25 (300’) Pretty good colour on this DCR release of a newsreel that covers Queen Elizabeth II visit on the 26th July 1965, unusual and now pretty rare!

18377 WW2 G.I. Diary: Okinawa – At the Emperor’s Doorstep B+ £25 OB This covers the last real battle of WW2, which started April 1st 1945, actual WW2 colour (reasonable) footage…Rare!

18378 WW2 G.I. Diary: Kamikaze - Flower of Death B+ £25 OB Japanese suicide pilots used as a last resort to try and stop (or slow down) the American Navy as it got nearer to Japan

18381 WW2 G.I. Diary: Return to the Philippines B+ £25 OB Actual WW2 footage of the Americans liberating the Philippines by the U.S. Navy in 1944

18383 WW2 G.I. Diary: The Toughest Targets B £20 OB This tells the story of the dangerous air raids carried out against the Nazi held Oil refineries in Romania in 1943

18385 WW2 G.I. Diary: The Battle of Saipan B+ £25 OB June 15th 1944 the Americans invade the island of Saipan where they eventually raised their flag on the 9th July after fierce fighting

18386 WW2 G.I. Diary: Iwo Jima – Eight Miles of Hell B+ £25 OB Perhaps one of the most famous and bloodiest battles between American and Japanese troops in 1945

18387 WW2 G.I. Diary: Peleliu – The Killing Ground B+/B £25 OB This was another blood-soaked Island battle in the Pacific between American and Japanese forces in 1944

18388 WW2 G.I. Diary: Desert War B+ £25 OB WW2 footage of the American tank campaign in the deserts of North Africa during the second World War

18458 Fantasia – Dance of the Hours B+ £35 (300’) Long ext. from Disney’s famous animation, it still retains good colour, it starts with the dancing Ostrich’s (that’s all I can tell you, not a fan myself)

18519 Sandokan – The Tiger of Malaysia B+ £25 OB Rare i.e. international release made in 1976 starring Kabir Bedi (Octopussy villain) as a Malaysian Pirate who attacks English & Dutch ships

18523 Mickey Mouse – The First 50 Years (Collector’s Edition – Red Box) B+ £25 OB Good colour on this rare Red Box edition, perhaps now a little squashed and battered, but it is over 45 years old now, this shows some of Mickey’s best bits from his first 50 years on screen

18551 Mickey’s Memorable Moments Volume 2 B+ £25 OB Pretty good colour on this rarer Mickey Mouse Disney highlight reel with clips from – ‘Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip’ – ‘Thru the Mirror’ – ‘The Little Whirlwind’ – ‘Mickey’s Parrot’ & ‘Mickey’s Garden’

18555 Alice in Wonderland B+ £30 Fine colour on both Disney extracts (here together on one reel) from their 1951 animated classic feature based upon the famous Lewis Carroll story

18576 True Grit B+ £30 OB Nice colour on this Marketing Films digest of this classic 1969 western, with Oscar winner John Wayne starring alongside Glenn Campbell, Kim Darby & Robert Duvall

18580 Donald Duck’s Dilemmas B+ £25 OB Pretty good colour on this Disney reel that highlights some of Donald Duck’s best cartoons, excerpts from: ‘Donald’s Golf Game’ – ‘Modern Inventions’ – ‘Donald’s Garden’ – ‘Dude Duck’ & ‘The Riveter’

 

 

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Sound

18599 Banger Boys B+ £25 (250’) OB Fine colour on rare Walton documentary looking at the world of banger racing (in the 1970’s, at least!), or more commonly known as a ‘Demolition Derby’

18602 New York, New York B+ £35 Still retaining good colour, this Liza Minnelli & Robert De Niro film is about a love affair that started on VJ day at the end of WW2, rare Derann digest now!

18626 Calamity Jane Promo B+ £35 Fine Derann print showing many scenes and songs from this much-loved Warner Bros. musical starring Doris Day & Howard Keel

18629 Love at First Bite B+ £25 OB Nice colour print of this 2979 comedy starring George Hamilton, Susan Saint James & Richard Benjamin, it’s well edited too!

18726 The Kentucky Fried Movie B+ £30 OB Rare Major8Movies release of this irreverent 1977 comedy, directed by John Landis it’s a series of adult skits, in similar vein to the ‘Groove Tube’ movie

 

Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Silent

16354 Vintage Aircraft No.1 B+ £25 Amateur footage that features many vintage aircraft, Avro, Anson, Lancaster and the Vulcan bomber are all featured on this reel

 

Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

15023 The World in Flames: Italy joins the Axis B £15 OB Actual WW2 footage as Italy joins Germany in declaring war in WW2

15250 Hallelujah I’m a Tramp (‘Bum’) Pt,1 B+/B £15 Al Jolson & Madge Evans star in this 1933 musical comedy, early Derann release which was originally a 4x400’ feature

15251 Hallelujah I’m a Tramp (‘Bum’) Pt,2 B/B+ £15 Al Jolson & Madge Evans star in this 1933 musical comedy, early Derann release which was originally a 4x400’ feature

15252 Hallelujah I’m a Tramp (‘Bum’) Pt,4 B+/B £15 Al Jolson & Madge Evans star in this 1933 musical comedy, early Derann release which was originally a 4x400’ feature

(If you buy all 3 parts at once pay of ‘Hallelujah I’m a Tramp’ and only pay £30 + p&p)

15752 The Hollywood Musical (Yankee Doodle Dandy) B/B+ £25 Nice extract from the James Cagney musical classic, taken mainly from the early part of the film, it’s a nice souvenir of the film

15762 The Golf Specialist B+ £22 The great W.C. Fields stars in this fun 1930 comedy short, he plays a Dentist who only really wants to play Golf, although there are many distractions on hand!

15766 Let’s Make Rhythm B+/B £20 OB Stan Kenton and his orchestra serves up music which was a big hit in 1947 (the year of this short), pretty rare now!

15845 Hollywood Laughter Makers – Blockheads (Laurel & Hardy) B+ £25 Fine extract from the boys’ feature, it starts with Stan sitting in a wheelchair, and Ollie thinks he’s lost a leg, brilliant!

15887 Fraternally Yours B+/B £22 Here’s a rare extract from the Laurel & Hardy 1933 comedy feature, it’s amazing how good these films are still!

16009 It’s Tommy Tucker Time B+ £20 OB Tommy Tucker and his Orchestra play some 1940’s melodies and tunes, pretty rare nowadays!

16298 Song of India B+ £20 OB Rare Columbia 8mm print of this India set adventure starring Sabu, Gail Russell and Turhan Bey

16356 Higher and Higher B+ £20 Frank Sinatra stars in this 1943 musical comedy, I think this must be one of his earliest acting roles!

16424 Secret Assignment B+ £20 OB Ken Maynard is assigned to run down a gang of stage coach robbers, plenty of western action!

16618 Way Out West B/B+ £17 This edition taken from the Laurel & Hardy classic comedy is taken from the first part of the feature, still very funny!

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

16698 The Music Box B+/B £17 Walton print of this classic Laurel & Hardy comedy, which is in English it has small French sub-titles (export print!)

16772 Shall We Dance Pt.2 B+/B £17 This comes with replaced titles which makes a self contained 400’ extract from this Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 1930’s musical

16754 The Dentist B+ £25 Rare F/L print of this 1932 W.C. Fields comedy short, he plays an unconventional Dentist, with patients to match, over 90 years old and still funny, can’t ask for more!

16919 Screen Snapshots – Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians B+/B £20 OB Columbia release of this 1952 compilation reel narrated by comic Joe. E. Brown, many clips looking back at some of the silent comedians at work and play, really interesting for lovers of Hollywood!

16943 The Big Band Sound – Piano Rhythm B+ £17 Made in 1949, it stars pianist Jan August and singer Kitty Kallan, great reel for lovers of 40’s and 50’s music

16945 The Golf Specialist B+ £22 The great W.C. Fields stars in this fun 1930 comedy short, he plays a Dentist who only really wants to play Golf, although there are many distractions on hand!

17141 The Elizabethan Express B+ £25 Walton release of this 1954 Railways short that looks at the nonstop express train from London to Edinburgh

17147 Two Tars B+/B £20 (270’) Laurel & Hardy comedy from 1928, here with an added music track, it has all its titles, but I think it may have been edited a bit, it starts with the boys stuck in a huge traffic jam with 2 girls they are taking out, this leads to cars being destroyed in tit for tat efforts

17265 You’re Telling Me! B+ £25 Pretty rare U8 print of this 1934 W.C. Fields comedy, he plays a hard drinking (as in real life!) inventor

17554 Born Yesterday B+/B £20 1950 Columbia comedy starring Judy Holliday, William Holden & Broderick Crawford, a Tycoon hires a man to teach his lover how to speak ‘Properly’…sparks fly!

17580 Hollywood and the Stars: The Great Lovers B+/B £25 TV Documentary (here slightly edited) that looks at some of the big screen heart throbs over the years, many clips included

17581 You Were Never Lovelier B+ £20 OB Columbia 1942 comedy musical starring Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth, set in Argentina a father urges his daughter to marry, can Fred fit the bill!

17665 The Dentist B+ £25 OB F/L Niles Films print of 1932 W.C. Fields comedy short, he plays an unconventional Dentist, with patients to match, over 90 years old and still funny, can’t ask for more!

17667 Genevieve B+ £20 OB Walton print of this famous British comedy starring Kay Kendall, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More & John Gregson, plus one vintage car (Genevieve)

17799 Calling All Girls B+/B £25 Warner Bros. short from 1942, showing the process the studios used to select girls for the chorus lines in musicals, there’s even clips from Busbey Berkeley films!

17828 Pal, Canine Detective B/B+ £20 OB Pal the Alsatian and Gary are playing detectives, but play turns into a real-life detective adventure, 1950 RKO Pal adventure

17849 Pennies from Heaven B+ £20 Bing Crosby comedy drama (with a touch of music!) from 1936, he helps out a struggling family

17859 Giants of Steam B+ £30 Both Walton parts of this BBC produced documentary from 1963 looking at some classic railway engines

17898 Pal’s Adventure B+/B £25 OB Rare RKO short from 1948 starring ‘Flame’ the dog who helps his young master clear his name of being a thief!

17970 Calling All Girls B+/B £25 OB Warner Bros. short from 1942, showing the process the studios used to select girls for the chorus lines in musicals, there’s even clips from Busbey Berkeley films!

17991 The Last Hurrah B+/B £25 OB Rare Columbia print of 1958 drama starring Spencer Tracey who plays an old political boss, who tries one last time to become Mayor of his town

18022 Fast Freight B+ £25 Made by RKO-Pathe this American made railway film shows how freight was moved around America back in the day (I’m guessing 1930’s or 40’s), DCR release

 

OLD STOCK – Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

18049 The Adventures of Captain Marvel B+ £25 OB Rare Derann digest of this 1941 multi part serial starring Tom Tyler who turns himself from a youth into adult ‘Captain Marvel’ …’Shazam!’

18063 Pest from the West B+/B £22 1939 Columbia comedy starring Buster Keaton who stars as a Millionaire on holiday in Mexico where he falls for a local girl, quite rare title!

18193 The Sky’s the Limit B+ £20 (210’ 0n 300’ reel) OB Film Office extract from 1943 musical starring Fred Astaire & Joan Leslie, they sing in English, but 1 or 2 words spoken in French

18257 Laurel & Hardy – A Day at the Studio B+ £35 (260’) OB Perry’ Movies rare segment from the 1937 film “Pick a Star” which sees Larel & Hardy make a cameo appearance, still funny!

18278 Li’l Abner B+ £25 OB Niles Films print of this 1940 comedy based upon on the American comic strip, it stars Jeff York and Buster Keaton

18284 Sing with the Stars – Carmen Miranda B+ £25 (210’) OB Rare Perry’s Movies print of this 1945 short filmed to be shown to American G.I.’s during WW2, great 1940’s music too!

18290 The All-Star Bond Rally B+ £25 Made in 1945 as an American War Bond Promo, it has music and skits from big stars like Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra & Betty Grable

18397 The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Germany B+/B £25 (250’) Rare documentary looking at the rise of Hitler and the Nazi’s in Germany, it uses actual vintage footage of all concerned

18442 Keystone Hotel B+/B £15 P/N: couple of splices at start of film 1935 comedy short starring Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin & Chester Conklin, the Hotel is hosting a big beauty contest, but when the cross-eyed judge (Ben Turpin) gives the 1st Prize to an elderly cleaning woman, carnage breaks loose!

18454 The Battle at Elderbush Gulch B+ £30 P/N: runs at 18 f.p.s. Rare 1913 D.W. Griffith western short, when the local tribe’s puppy eating feast (Yes ‘Puppies’!) is waylaid by 2 late Braves, there’s not enough to go around, they steal 2 from the local settlers, which leads to an all out battle in the town of Elderbush Gulch, rare and unusual Blackhawk Films print with added sound and music

18504 Pennies from Heaven B+ £20 Bing Crosby comedy drama (with a touch of music!) from 1936, he helps out a struggling family

18514 King Kong in New York B+ £25 Nice ext. - King Kong on stage in New York surrounded by press who start using flash photography, he bursts out of his chains & goes on the rampage

18520 Pygmalion B+/B £25 George Bernards Shaw’s famous story of a Phonetics Professor who has a bet with a friend he could teach a Cockney flower seller to speak proper English, later re-worked with songs into “My Fair Lady”, this stars Leslie Howard & Wendy Hiller, nice extract too!

18559 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town B+ £25 OB Rare Columbia digest of this screwball comedy from 1936, starring Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds) and Jean Arthur, a naïve country man inherits a massive fortune, but when he goes to New York to collect it, he is surrounded by ‘would be’ friends!

18573 It’s A Gift B+ £25 OB Fine U8 print of this 1934 W.C. Fields comedy, he plays a henpecked grocer who always seems to be in trouble with his wife

18579 The Fireman B+ £30 Rare (especially in the U.K.) Blackhawk import with music & effects of this 1916 Charlie Chaplin comedy, he plays a Fireman who always seems to do something wrong

18583 Popeye the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor B+ £25 OB Niles Films import, here’s a B/W copy from a colour original (most colour prints have badly faded) of this 1936 Fleischer 2 reele

18598 Melody Time B+ £25 OB DCR print of 1946 music short, at the request of Mrs. Miller, Tex Beneke leads the Glenn Miller band to play those Glenn Miller standards one more time, ‘In the Mood’ & ‘Midnight Patrol’ are just 2 of the tunes featured on this reel

18625 Alimony Aches B+ £25 Columbia print of this 1935 Andy Clyde comedy short, his ex-wife re-marries without telling him so he still keeps paying her each month!

 

 

 

OLD STOCK – Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

18631 Them Thar Hills B+/B £35 OB Rare F/L Blackhawk Films import of this classic 1934 Laurel & Hardy comedy short, the boys are going into the hills so Ollie can recover from gout, they pull up at a well for water, not knowing it’s Boot Leg Whiskey country, and the well has had plenty dumped into it because the Police were near, they start drinking the ‘Healthy’ water, and guess what happens!

18702 Hollywood Hotel B+/B £25 (300’) This is taken from the Busbey Berkeley directed 1937 musical starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane & Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

18703 We’re Wrestling Tonight B+ £25 OB If you were a fan of Saturday afternoon Wrestling in the 1970’s, this reel is for you, it’s a ‘Tag’ match between the Wild Man of Borneo and Mike ‘Hardboiled’ Haggerty Vs. ‘Judo’ Al Hayes and ‘Rebel’ Ray Hunter, nostalgia at its best from Walton Films

18705 The Live Ghost B+ £28 Walton print of 1934 Laurel & Hardy comedy short, a sea Captain is having trouble getting a crew because men think his ship is haunted, step forward Stan & Ollie to shanghai him a crew for him, this will not end well!

18723 Pathe Gazete Review of 1941 B+/B £30 (300’) Rare extra long WW2 newsreel end of year round-up, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz feature heavily, as you would imagine, powerful images!

18725 The Dentist B+ £25 OB F/L Niles Films print of 1932 W.C. Fields comedy short, he plays an unconventional Dentist, with patients to match, over 90 years old and still funny, can’t ask for more!

18739 Shall We Dance B+/B £20 (300’) OB Imported Film Office extract from the 1937 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers RKO musical comedy

18737 The Old Fashioned Way B+ £25 U8 print of this fun 1934 W.C. Fields comedy, a troupe of 3rd rate Vaudevillians try to stay one step ahead of bill collectors

18754 The Phantom Rides the Trail B+/B £25 OB Walton digest of 1940 Ken Maynard western “Phantom Rancher”, a despicable rancher aims to take over the whole valley, then Ken comes along!

18759 Andy Clyde Gets Spring Chicken B+ £25 OB Columbia comedy from 1939, Andy saves a woman from drowning, then crashes a party with beautiful girls, who snub him, but change their minds when they realize he’s rich!

18760 Going Bye-Bye! B+ £30 Walton print of this classic Laurel & Hardy short from 1934, the boys testify in court against a dangerous thug who has vowed to get even with them, and when he escapes custody, they plan to skip town, but can they in time!

 

Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Optical Sound

18217 The Vagabond B+ £25 OB Film Office import of rare Charlie Chaplin Optical print with music and effects from 1916 comedy classic, he’s a Violinist who rescues a girl from a band of Gypsies

 

Standard 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

17985 Mickey’s Tent Show B+/B £25 Musical comedy short from 1933 stars Mickey Rooney in one of his ‘Mickey McGuire’ shorts he starred in, here it’s the usual let’s put on a music show…unusual!

18020 Distant Drums B+ £20 OB Walton digest, Gary Cooper stars, it’s the early days of America, where he’s fighting hostile Indians in the Florida everglades, well edited too!

18216 The Hoose-Gow B+ £25 OB Blackhawk Films import of F/L Laurel & Hardy comedy from 1929, the boys are swept up in a Police raid, sentenced to Jail in a labour camp, mayhem ensues!

18609 History is Made at Night B+/B £20 OB Rare Walton print of 1937 comedy romance starring Charles Boyer & Jean Arthur, a wealthy divorcee falls for a charming Parisian

18610 The Lady Vanishes Pt.1 B+/B £20 1st Part from the Walton 4x400’ release of this classic Hitchcock thriller, it stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave & Dame May Whitty

18751 Churchill – Champion of Freedom B+ £30 (2x200’) Rank Film productions tribute made in 1965 telling the life and achievements of the great Winston Churchill, very well made too!

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Silent

18106 Modern Times B+ £30 Rare Super 8 print (easier to find in STD.8) of 1936 Charlie Chaplin comedy, ‘The Tramp’ struggles to live in modern times of the 1930’s

18107 Easy Street B+/B £25 Rare F/L print of the classic 1917 Charlie Chaplin comedy, the little ‘Tramp’ reforms and joins the Police force, where he has to deal with a big bully on ‘Easy Street’

18108 Shoulder Arms B+ £22 Classic Charlie Chaplin comedy from 1918, a boot camp private (Chaplin) dreams that he becomes a big hero of WW1…well he can dream, can’t he!

18151 Mary, Queen of Tots B+ £25 OB Our Gang comedy from 1925, lonely rich kid Mary is given 4 lifelike dolls, she falls asleep & dreams they come to life and romp in her bedroom…U.S. import

18505 Coney Island B+ £25 OB Niles Films import of 1917 Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle comedy directed & starring himself, this includes an early appearance from Buster Keaton as well!

18556 The Tramp B+/B £25 F/L imported Blackhawk Films print of 1915 Charlie Chaplin classic, the little ‘Tramp’ finds the girl of his dreams and works on her family’s Farm

18557 The Champion B+ £25 F/L imported Blackhawk Films print of 1915 Charlie Chaplin classic, the little ‘Tramp’ finds a lucky horseshoe, when passing a Boxing gym he uses in his glove!

18606 Cops B+ £25 Buster Keaton is on top form in this 1922 comedy, Buster after a series of mishaps has nearly the entire Police Force chasing him by the end of the reel, brilliant timing!

18624 The Haunted House B+ £25 Rare 1921 Buster Keaton comedy, a Bank clerk (Keaton) ends up in what seemingly in a haunted house, but is really a home for thieves and robbers

18704 That’s My Wife B+ £25 F/L Blackhawk Films print of this 1929 silent Laurel & Hardy comedy, Ollie can inherit a fortune, on one condition, he’s happily married, unfortunately he’s not!

18758 Early to Bed B+ £25 Laurel & Hardy comedy from 1928, Ollie inherits a lot of money and hires Stan as his Butler, and proceeds to torment him, Stan has finally had enough and goes berserk destroying all of Ollies valuable furniture, pretty rare copy now!

 

Standard 8mm 16-20 B/W Silent

13531 Pals in Buckskin B+ £20 OB Perry’s Movies print of part one of the 1930 Western serial “The Indians are Coming” starring Tim McCoy, I would suggest this is pretty rare now!

15059 Movie Memories (1910-1928) B+/B £20 Columbia short that looks at events and people which includes William S. Hart, The Great Caruso and many more of that time period

18622 Time Freight to Tidewater B+ £25 (2x200) OB Blackhawk Films import of this American steam Railway short, the story of the Norfolk and Western’s No.86 from Columbus to Norfolk

 

Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18459 Colour Logos B+ £25 (100’) Derann print with logos from ‘Paramount’-‘20th Cenury-Fox’-‘RKO’-‘Warner Bros.’ etc., quality is a bit variable as the masters have come from many sources

18482 Pathe News Review of 1965 B+ £25 Fine colour print (probably Derann) of this end of year news round-up of all the big stories from 1965

18484 The Cat Concerto B+ £25 P/N: French titles One of the best Tom & Jerry cartoons ever made from 1947, Tom is playing brilliantly at a Piano until Jerry interferes, still has good colour too!

18488 Visit to London B+/B £25 Fine colour on this Walton travelogue of London, visiting many of the famous historical sights, made I’m guessing in the early 1970’s, pretty rare now!

18525 Island of Mystery B+/B £15 Good colour on this action-packed extract from the Disney live action feature “Swiss Family Robinson” starring John Mills

18528 Funny Girl Promo B+/B £25 Rare promo from the 1968 Barbra Streisand musical, and shows clips and behind the scenes footage as well, colour is only acceptable (master used I think!), unusual!

 

 

OLD STOCK – Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18537 Grease B+ £20 Nice colour to this extract which takes place in the school gym as the cameras of a popular dance show turn up at Rydell High, John Travolta & Oliva Newton John star

18541 Muzzle Trouble B+ £17 OB Good colour on this Disney extract from the classic feature “Lady and the Tramp”, Lady has had a pesky muzzle fitted and Tramp helps her out to remove it

18544 The Milky Waif B+/B £16 OB Good colour Walton print of this classic 1946 Tom & Jerry classic, Jerry is looking after baby Nibbles who really likes Tom’s Milk, Tom gets annoyed!

18561 Look at Life: Under Your Feet B+ £35 OB Excellent colour on this short which looks at under the feet of Londoners in the 1960’s, the old Royal Mail railway, sewers etc. is all shown

18562 Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby B+ £25 OB Extract taken from the now controversial Disney film “Song of the South” it’s a mix of live action and animation, I doubt we will ever see more again!

18565 The 10th Anniversary of the Red Arrows B+/B £20 OB Nice colour on this documentary looking at the famous R.A.F. display team, brilliant mid-air camerawork as well

18566 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo B+/B £17 Pretty good colour on this Disney extract from the 1977 sequel featuring the VW Bug with a mind of its own

18569 Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too B+ £20 Good colour on this Disney animated classic made in 1974, Tigger is causing trouble bouncing everyone, what can be done!

18588 The Tree in a Test Tube B+ £25 War propaganda film from 1942 featuring Laurel & Hardy in their only colour film the different uses of wood, reasonable colour print from (I’m guessing) 16mm

18614 The Beatles Mod Odyssey B+ £40 P/N: has red fade though some colours remain First copy I’ve ever had of this American import, it’s the making of the animated “Yellow Submarine”

18620 Le Merle (The Blackbird) B+ £25 (100’) OB Experimental 1958 animated short from the National Film Board of Canada, set to the French song ‘La Merle’, good colour too! Rare & unusual!

18718 Thunderbird Musical Trailer Reel B/B+ £25 Pretty good colour on 4 trailers to: ‘Words and Music’-‘Oklahoma’-‘South Pacific ’&’The King and I’, some classic musicals!

18733 The Belstone Fox Trl. B+ £20 (100’) OB SCOPE Long trailer to this 1973 family film about a Fox so intelligent he can outwit the dogs that are chasing him

18742 Look at Life: Turn of the Wheel B+ £30 OB Fine colour Derann print of this 1964 edition which shows the modernisation of transport systems across the U.K. & what happens to all the old buses and trains and the end of their lives!

18743 Look at Life: Holiday Camps B+ £30 Fine colour Derann print of this 1963 edition which looks at the booming Holiday Camp industry here in the U.K. and abroad

18753 The Dapper Dalmatian B+/B £17 Good colour copy of this excellent Disney animated extract from the F/L “101 Dalmatians”

18728 A Day at Disneyland B+ £15 Pretty good colour on this trip around Disneyland (1970’s, I’m guessing), as we see some of the attractions that were being offered then!

18729 Out to Punch B+ 325 OB Film Office print of this 1956 Popeye cartoon, while Popeye is training for his big Boxing match against Bluto, all he wants to do is sabotage Popete before the match, good colour print too!

18730 Gopher Spinach B+/B £25 OB Film Office print of 1954 Popeye cartoon, he’s battling a pesky Gopher over his precious Spinach plants, good colour too!

18737 Elvis Trailer Reel B to B/B+ £15 P/N: has fade Rare Derann reel with 3 Elvis trailers on it: ‘Easy Come Easy Go’ – ‘Girl Happy’ & ‘Loving You’

18766 Shout at the Devil Trl. B+ £20 (100’) Long Iver Films trailer to this 1975 Roger Moore & Lee Marvin action adventure set during WW1, good colour too!

18772 Posse Cat B+ £17 Good colour on this classic 1954 Tom & Jerry, Jerry is rustling food, so Tom’s owner won’t let him eat until the mouse problem is dealt with, I think he might starve then!

 

OLD STOCK – Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18776 Cat Fishin’ B+ £25 Late re-print with fine colour to this classic 1947 Tom & Jerry, Tom wants to go fishing, Spike is in his way though, and Jerry is live bait!

18777 Tennis Chumps B+ £20 Nice colour on this 1949 Tom & Jerry, Tom is playing a Cigar chomping bully at Tennis, but Jerry (of course) gets the better of both of them!

18778 Alice and the White Rabbit B+ £25 Nice colour on this extract (which is getting rarer, especially with good colour) from Disney’s F/L animated feature “Alice in Wonderland”

18787 Look at Life: Turn of the Wheel B+/B £30 Fine Derann print of this 1964 edition which looks at the modernisation of the U.K.’s transport systems, and looking at what happens to all the old outdated Buses and Trains, usually they are cut up as scrap metal!

18788 Coming Home (The Flying Scotsman) B+/B £25 OB Derann print of this short about the world-famous locomotive as it returns to Britain after starring overseas

18732 Popeye – The Billionaire B+ £20 OB TV Popeye cartoon from 1961, Popeye gives each of his friends a Million Dollars to see who will use it best, but as they all squander it, he leaves it to charity

18733 The Cat Concerto B+ £20 OB German Piccolo print of this Oscar winning 1947 Tom & Jerry cartoon, Tom is playing the Piano superbly till Jerry intervenes! Colour is not too bad, has a slight dupey look to it, most probably the master used for the 8mm prints!

18735 Look at Life: The Spirit of Brooklands B+ £30 OB Good colour on this 1965 edition which looks into the history of the Surrey motor racing circuit and aerodrome, many vintage clips as well!

 

Standard 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour

13092 The Super Nanny B+ £17 OB Good colour extract from the Disney mix of live action and animation classic “Mary Poppins” starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke

13204 Island of Mystery B+ £17 Nice colour print of this action-packed extract from the Disney live action feature “Swiss Family Robinson” starring John Mills

14753 Bambi Falls in Love B+/B £17 Lovely extract, with good colour, from the Disney animated classic feature “Bambi”

17011 Free Fall Falcons B+ £20 OB Fine colour on this Walton release looking at the R.A.F.’s free fall Parachute display team the Flying Falcons, some amazing aerial shots

18496 Cruise Cat B+/B £17 Nice colour Walton print of this 1952 Tom & Jerry classic, Tom the official Cat on the ship, but his status is on the line if the Captain finds just one Mouse, cue Jerry!

 

Super 8mm 6-10 Minute Colour Silent

18727 Bullied Light Pacific’s B+/B £25 (100’) OB Good colour on this Meteor Films release which looks at unconverted Light Pacific’s from 1961-67, rare 100’ release from Meteor Films!

 

Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

10219 South Africa’s Animal Kingdom B+/B £15 OB Walton release of this African wildlife short where we see Elephants, Lions, Hippo’s etc. all in their natural environment

12718 Top Hat B+/B £13 (110’) This is the full ‘Top Hat’ number starring Fred Astaire from the marvellous RKO musical of the same name

15213 The Desert Fox B+ £15 James Mason stars here as the wily German Field Marshall Irwin Rommel, who was a thorn in the side of the allies in the African desert in WW2

15561 The Brutal Brothers B+ £15 OB Fine Walton extract of this revenge western starring Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine & Robert Culp

15583 The Dentist B/B+ £14 OB Rare Collectors Club abridged version of the W.C. Fields comedy from 1932, I’ve not seen this edit many time he plays an unconventional Dentist…great fun!

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

15597 South Africa’s Animal Kingdom B+ £17 OB Walton release of this African wildlife short where we see Elephants, Lions, Hippo’s etc. all in their natural environment

15739 Terror of the Jungle B+ £15 OB Here we see the lives of the various and sometimes unusual animals who inhabit the Jungle in Sumatra

15851 British Movietone News Review of 1934 B+ £20 P/N: sepia look End of year round-up of all the top stories from home and abroad from 1934

15952 Dumb Patrol B+ £14 OB 1964 W.B.’s Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs is a Pilot in WW1 battling Baron Sam (Yosemite) von Shamm in the skies over France, you guess who wins out!

15964 Top Hat B+ £20 OB Fine Film Office release with extracts from the classic RKO musical starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

15999 British Movietone News Review of 1934 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of all the top stories from home and abroad from 1934, here on B/W stock as well!

16202 Moonlight Serenade B+ £20 P/N: sepia look The great Glenn Miller & his Orchestra play their music in this extract from the musical “Sun Valley Serenade”, nice CR print!

16398 The Challenge of the Alps B+/B £14 OB Castle Films release of this short looking at a majestic Balloon trip taken over the Alps with all the difficulties that comes with it

16477 The Lady has Plans – Rings on her Fingers Trl.s B+B £20 (100’) 2 trailers from 2 1942 movies, 1st up stars Ray Miland & Paulette Goddard, the 2nd stars Henry Fonda & Gene Tierney

16580 Days of Thrills and Laughter – The Dashing American B+ £20 This extract from the Robert Youngson production looks at Douglas Fairbanks (Snr.) and some of his famous silent films

16731 Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller B+ £20 Famous singer Fats Waller sings 4 songs including “Honeysuckle Rose” and of course “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, nice Collectors Club release

16954 Free Fall Falcons B+ £20 OB Walton release looking at the R.A.F.’s free fall Parachute display team the Flying Falcons, here with some amazing aerial shots to boot!

17090 British Movietone News Review of 1937 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of all the top stories from home and abroad from 1934, Derann print here on B/W stock as well!

17125 The Three Caballeros B+ £15 OB Really fun Disney animated reel starring Donald Duck and friends who take a trip to exotic Mexico, nice B/W print as well!

17126 I Surrender Dear B+/B £20 Taken from the 1931 musical short starring legendary crooner Bing Crosby, he sings a couple of songs as well, but it’s the early 30’s setting that wins big here!

17131 Hawaiian Holiday (Disney) B+ £20 OB 1937 Disney cartoon starring Mickey, Donald, Goofy & Pluto, German release but has the original English track, quite rare

17207 Power Boats Are-Go! B+ £17 OB Walton documentary looking at exciting (and dangerous) world of Speed Boat racing, here filmed in the 1970’s, all action, and quite rare now!

17208 British Movietone News Review of 1947 B+ £20 P/N: sepia look End of year round-up of all the big stories from home and abroad in 1947

17220 Ant Pasted B+ £14 Brilliant W.B.’s Elmer Fudd cartoon from 1953, it’s the 4th July, he’s on a picnic & throws a fire cracker into an ants nest, who then declare war on him! Great sight gags!

17280 Flicker Flashbacks B+ £20 Here we look back at the early days of the 20th Century, New York in 1908, Paris fashions etc., this is a rarity as most of these ‘Flicker Flashbacks’ are only on STD.8

17284 Flip the Frog - Techno-Cracked B+ £25 Made in 1933, Flip is a lazy inventor who only invents things to make his life easier. Ub Iwerks cartoon, pretty rare now!

17285 Willie Whopper – Stratos-Fear B+ £25 Made in 1933, Willie dreams of being lifted into outer space by a host of balloons, Ub Iwerks cartoon, rare now!

17300 Swing Time B+ £20 Nice extract from the 1936 RKO musical comedy starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

17302 Movietone Melodies – Red Ingle and his Gang B+ £25 Rare (especially in the U.K.) Blackhawk print of 1950 Movietone (U.S.) short, unusual import of lively musical item!

17355 British Movietone News Review of 1938 B+ £20 P/N: sepia look End of year round-up of all the top stories from home and abroad from 1938

17411 Laurel and Hardy’s Musical Moments B+ £20 OB Fine Walton reel which contains musical moments from the Boys comedies, ‘Trail of the Lonesome Pine’ from “Way out West” etc.

17464 British Movietone News Review of 1938 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of all the top stories from home and abroad from 1938, B/W stock as well!

17635 The Road is Open Again B+ £25 1933 W.B.’s short, Dick Powell plays a songwriter who falls asleep & dreams that Washington, Lincoln & Teddy Roosevelt appear to him and asks why he’s writing this song (the title of the short!), they reassure him that although the country is in a deep depression, President FDR was on the right ‘Road’ out of the trouble, flag waving pick-me-up!

17659 Bob Crosby and his Orchestra B+ £20 OB Very full spool (@ 230’), this is Bing’s younger brother’s 1930’s Orchestra ‘The Bob-Cats’, Jazz numbers like “The Pagan Love Song” etc., rare!

17807 Ziegfield – Gloryfying the American Girl B/B+ £25 U.S. import of 1929 short that shows how Ziegfield put on a musical, we even see the first night with loads of stars on show…Rare!

17880 The Mail Goes Through B+/B £25 OB Rare Walton print of this 1947 animated short, two reckless villains try and rob a mail train, but are foiled in the act

17884 The Power of Innocence B+ £25 1912 Drama short, here with an added sound track, Lucy Davis lives in small-town Indiana who decides to move to New York, on the train she meets a dubious Travelling salesman, who says he has contacts in N.Y….is it too good to be true…what does he want!

17885 Animaland – Platypus B+/B £20 Walton print of 1948 animated film, we visit Australia and see some of the strange wildlife on offer ‘Down Under’, nothing as strange though as the ‘Platypus’

17954 The Sky’s the Limit B+ £20 OB Film Office release of this 1943 Fred Astaire & Joan Leslie comedy musical, pretty rare extract from this film

18027 Charlie the Champ B+ £20 Walton print with an added music & effects track of this 1915 Chaplin comedy, he becomes a winning Boxer thanks to a ‘loaded’ Boxing Glove

18039 Pathe News Review of 1963 B+ £25 Rare Pathe Newsreview of the year, it features tye Queen’s visit to Fiji & Australia, Gordon Cooper blasts off into space etc,

18041 The Kids Last Stand B+ £20 OB ‘Baby Burlesk’ short from 1932 featuring Shirley Temple and other young actors in a tale of a big Boxing match

18080 The Champion B+ £20 OB Walton print with an added music & effects track of this 1915 Chaplin comedy, he becomes a winning Boxer thanks to a ‘loaded’ Boxing Glove

18120 Newsreel Triumphs B+ £25 (120’) Stories featured inc. – Royal tour of Canada – Egyptian Crisis and even a feature on Newcastle winning the F.A. Cup final at Wembley…very rare now!

18139 First and Foremost B+ £25 Sport review from 1935, Bi-Plane Air Display, Pigeon Racing, the Derby Horse race, even a Motor Race on the Isle of Man, plus more items…boy is this rare!

18166 Easy Street B+ £20 Added sound edition (music & effects) of this famous Charlie Chaplin from 1917, the little Tramp joins the Police Force and heads to ‘Easy Street’ & the bully who runs it!

18425 Disaster Fighters B+ £25 This Robert Youngson produced short from 1951 looks at natural disasters (Floods, Earthquakes etc.) and looks at the people who help to save lives

18426 Derann Trailer Reel No.3 B+ £30 OB 3 Serial trailers: ‘The Adventures of Captain Marvel’ – ‘Federal Agents Vs. the Underworld’ & ‘King of the Texas Rangers’, rare and in Original Box too!

18427 Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby B+ £20 Extract taken from the now controversial Disney film “Song of the South” it’s a mix of live action and animation, I doubt we will ever see more again!

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

18444 Pinch me Please B+/B £20 OB Fine Abbott & Costello extract from Walton, the boy’s are in trouble and think it would be safer behind bars, but can they get arrested, who knows!

18700 The Mummy’s Tomb B+ £25 Castle Films release of this 1942 Universal horror starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Dick Foran, the Mummy heads out for revenge on those who desecrated the tomb

18701 Psycho – The Shower Sequence B+ £20 (100’) Complete shower sequence from Hitchcock’s thriller masterpiece, is their anymore to really say!

18715 News Parade of the Year 1942 B+ £25 OB Rare Castle Films American view of WW2 year, the year in which the U.S.A. really comes into WW2, really rare here in the U.K.

18719 Movie Milestones No.2 B+ £25 OB Clips from classic silent movies: ‘The Ten Commandments (1925)’ – ‘Behind the Front (1926)’ – ‘The Way of all Flesh (1928)’ & ‘Old Ironsides (1926)’ here with added sound and narration, nice Walton release

18721 Gaumont British News Review of 1935 B+/B £25 OB End of year re-telling the big stories of 1935 like the Silver Jubilee of George V, plus other big events of the year

18722 Hitler’s Germany B+ £25 OB P/N: sepia look Derann print of this short looking at Hitler’s time in charge of Germany and how WW2 started because of his actions

18733 Oh! My aching Tooth B+ £20 OB Abbott & Costello comedy extract, Lou has a raging toothache, Bud takes the unwilling Lou to a Dentist, which is hilarious!

18734 I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (Popeye) B+ £25 Fleischer Films 1936 Popeye cartoon, Popeye takes Olive Mountain climbing, but Bluto sets traps along the way

18739 British Movietone News Review of 1951 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of the biggest stories of the year, home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18740 British Movietone News Review of 1952 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of the biggest stories of the year, home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18741 British Movietone News Review of 1953 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of the biggest stories of the year, home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18742 British Movietone News Review of 1954 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of the biggest stories of the year, home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18743 G.B. News-WW2-The Outbreak B+ £25 OB Footage from 1939 as Germany’s “Blitz Krieg” (Lightening War) in Poland triggers the outbreak of WW2, we see preparations for the allies, as well as footage of the early part of WW2, sometimes dubbed ‘The Phoney War’

18744 Gaumont News Review of 1942 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of news from the WW2 affected year, all the big stories from home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18745 Gaumont News Review of 1943 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of news from the WW2 affected year, all the big stories from home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18746 Gaumont News Review of 1944 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of news from the WW2 affected year, all the big stories from home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18747 Gaumont News Review of 1945, Pt.1 B+ £25 OB End of year round-up of news from the WW2 affected year, all the big stories from home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18748 Gaumont News Review of 1945, Pt.2 B+/B £25 OB End of year round-up of news from the WW2 affected year, all the big stories from home and abroad, and it’s on B/W stock as well!

18761 The Jazz Singer Promo B+ £30 Fascinating look back at the groundbreaking 1927 “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, the 1st feature length film with any synchronized sound, you hear all the songs, a little bit of dialogue, this film is really a time capsule, as it features early test footage as well

18763 Wings B+ £20 OB 1927 WW1 war film starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers & a young Gary Cooper, here with an added music track, which works surprisingly well!

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

18780 Popeye – Customers Wanted B+ £25 OB Nile Films import of this 1939 Fleischer Popeye cartoon, Popeye & Bluto compete with each other in their Penny Arcade’s for Wimpy’s money

18782 Stars on Parade B+ £25 OB Derann print of this 1948 gala day at Morden Hall Park, we see the likes of John Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Petula Clark & a young Bill Owen + many more

18789 The Bride of Frankenstein – The Creation B+ £20 (100’) U8 Great scenes release, here’s the complete sequence with Elsa Lanchester & Boris Karloff

18790 Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman B+/B £25 Universal horror from 1943 starring Lon Chaney Jr.  as the “Wolfman” & Bela Lugosi as the “Monster”

18791 Classic Trailers No.1  B+ £25 Classic Home Cinema release of 3 vintage trailers: ‘Dinner at Eight’ – ‘David Copperfield’ & ‘’Anna Karenina’, all good quality trailers too!

 

Standard 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

17317 Crazy Flying B+ £15 This tells the early attempts from Man to fly, crazy contraptions, and brave daring men who literally hurl themselves of  high buildings holding onto homemade wings

17491 The Crusades B+ £15 Castle Films extract from the Cecil DeMille’s 1935 production starring Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon

17493 Hollywood and Bust B+ £15 Fine Castle Films extract starring Abbott & Costello, I must admit I still like the humour of Abbott & Costello, some of their routines are timeless

17953 Hog Wild B+ £15 Walton release (here in edited form) of this classic Laurel & Hardy comedy, Ollie has been tasked to put up a new aerial, unfortunately for him, Stan wants to help!

18029 Mr. Magoo – Bwana Magoo B+/B £15 OB Mr. Magoo cartoon from 1959, here the short sighted Magoo is on Safari in Africa with nephew Waldo, the troubles he gets into!

18031 Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing B+/B £15 1939 music short featuring Artie Shaw and singer Helen Forrest who perform a class in the current swing music…extremely rare on any gauge!

18072 Trailer and Avert Reel B+/B £25 (100’) Trailer to Sabu 1948 adv. ‘Man-Eater of Kumaoan’ then 3 1950’s U.S. T.V. adverts, ‘Listerene Mouthwash’ – ‘Ipana Toothpaste’ & ‘Vilalis Hair Tonic’

18295 Pathe Review of 1954 B+ £17 End of year look at all the big stories foreign and domestic in 1954, these are really well done too!

18320 Pathe News – End of Decade Review (The 1960’s) B+ £25 Only ever released on STD.8 this is a cracking reel of stories, the emergence of the Beatles, the assignation of JFK + loads more

18321 Carmen B+ £15 OB Film Office release that looks at the famous Opera, with musical extracts, it has a little French narration, but made up for with the classic Opera music to be heard

18720 Movie Milestones No.1 B+ £20 OB Walton, silent classics, music & narration: ‘The Miracle Man (1919)’ – ‘Blood and Sand (1922)’ – ‘The Covered Wagon (1924) & ‘Beau Geste (1927)’

18732 London to Brighton at 500 M.P.H. B+ £17 (100’) Made in 1953, we see from the Driver’s cab using trick photography the route from London to Brighton by rail, still great fun!

18737 Fireball XL5 – Flight to Danger B+ £25 OB Gerry Anderson’s famous puppet series, here a digest from a 1963 episode, you can see why it’s still well liked

 

Super 8mm 6-10 Minute B/W Silent

12762 Don Juan B+ £20 OB John Barrymore stars in this extract from the 1926 silent classic, it’s a nice Perry’s Movies print too!

15092 The Cure B+ £15 OB Charlie Chaplin’s famous comedy, here slightly edited, the little Tramp is a drunk who attends a spa for the ‘Cure’…Walton’s last ever 8mm release (re-release!)

17852 Hungry Hearts B+ £25 OB Blackhawk Films import of 1916 comedy which stars a young Oliver (Babe) hardy whose one of a pair of starving artists both in love with the same pretty model

 

OLD STOCK - Standard 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Silent

16689 Allied Advance Through Salerno B £20 September 1943 Italy, the allies make great advances through Salerno in WW2, actual war footage on show, pretty rare now!

16784 Catching a Giant Lizard B+/B £15 OB Perry’s Movies release of this nature short, catching a fast moving Lizard isn’t as easy as it sounds, in fact they are very hard to catch!

16965 Hitler and the Dictators B+ £15 OB Actual archival footage of Hitler meeting and greeting the likes of Mussolini during WW2, one for the history buffs!

17305 The Undead B+ £15 This is taken from the 1957 Roger Corman horror movie which starred Pamela Duncan & Richard Garland

17951 The Female of the Species B+/B £15 Biograph short made in 1914 starring Mary Pickford, Charles West & Claire McDowell are trying to traverse a Desert to safety…Rare and unusual!

18153 The Desperate Scoundrels B+ £15 OB Taken from the 1915 Keystone Cops short ‘Dirty Work in a Laundry’, typical plot, scoundrel takes Milk from a Baby, & tries to kill the girl with a Mangle!

18436 That Ragtime Band B+ £20 Blackhawk Films import of 1913 Ford Sterling & Mabel Norman comedy, Sterling is a Band leader trying to woo a pretty girl (Norman), is she impressed or not!

18764 The Iron Mule B+/B £25 Rare on any gauge, this 1925 railroad set comedy stars Al St. John, it’s 1830 the passenger train ‘The Iron Mule’ sets off loaded with passengers, but it faces many obstacles and delays on the way, even an ambush by local Indians!

 

Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes Colour Sound

18137 Calamity Jane Trl. B+ £25 Fine Derann trailer to this famous comedy musical western starring Doris Day & Howard Keel

18417 Annie Get Your Gun Trl. B+/B £20 Good colour trailer to this 1950 musical starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel

18535 The Virgin and the Gypsy Trl. B+ £20 OB Fine trailer from Iver Films of this 1970 adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel, Franco Nero, Joanna Shimkus & Honor Blackman star

18767 The Diamond Mercenaries Trl. B+/B £15 Iver Films trailer to this action thriller about stealing Diamonds from a Diamond mine, it stars Peter Fonda, Telly Savalas & Christopher Lee

18768 Meet Me in St. Louis Trl. B+ £17 Good colour trailer to this 1944 M.G.M. musical starring Judy Garland & Margaret O’Brian, snippets of some great music in this trailer

18769 The Pirate Trl. B+ £17 Fine trailer to this 1948 comedy musical drama starring Judy Garland & Gene Kelly, I’ve not seen many prints of this title before, good colour also!

18770 Les Girls Trl. B+ £15 Trailer to the 1957 M.G.M. comedy musical starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor & Kay Kendall, colour a little pale, I’m guessing the master used for the 8mm prints

18771 The Harvey Girls Trl. B+ £17 Cracking trailer to the 1946 M.G.M. musical starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and a young Angela Lansbury, good colour as well!

18784 Singin’ in the Rain Trl. B+ £20 Derann print of this trailer to the 1952 M.G.M. musical classic starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Retnolds

 

Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Sound

17095 Sepia Cinderella Trl. B £15 Comedy musical from 1947, struggling songwriter leaves his girlfriend for a flashy other woman, now this is a rare trailer, to a rarely seen movie!

17806 Tyrone Power American Red Cross Appeal – U.S. War bonds – American Brotherhood Appeal (Edward G. Robinson) B+/B £20 Unusual WW2 patriotic reel, 2 big stars of the day!

 

 

 

 

OLD STOCK - Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Sound

17808 Ziegfield Successor – Host to “Show Boat” B/B+ Producer A.C. Blumenthal is lauded for carrying on the great Ziegfield’s work after his death, we see some of the 1930’s stars as well

18013 Maytime Trl.  B+ £20 Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and John Barrymore star in this well put together trailer to the 1937 musical

18094 Broadway Melody of 1940 Trl. B+ £20 Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell & George Murphy star in this fine M.G.M. trailer

18095 Strike Up the Band Trl. B+ £20 Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney musical from 1940, this was one of those typical ‘lets put on a show’ movie that was popular in America in the early 1940’s

18096 Wake Up and Live Trl. B+/B £20 This trailer to the 1937 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy satire movie based around real-life Radio personalities of the day in America…Unusual in U.K.

18536 Gold Diggers of 1935 Trl. B+ £20 P/N: sepia print Fine musical trailer to classic Busbey Berkely movie, it stars Dick Powell, Aolphe Menjou & Gloria Stuart

 

Standard 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Sound

18073 Scrooge Trl. Fine trailer to this British Christmas classic based upon the famous Charles Dickins story, it stars Alistair Sim as “Scrooge”…Bah! Humbug! And all that!

18322 The Flying Deuces Trl. B+ £15 It’s not often a Laurel & Hardy trailer pops up on STD.8 which I haven’t seen a Super 8 version, well I’ve never seen this on Super 8, fun and unusual!

 

Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes Colour Silent

18730 Trains: Southern Region B+/B £20 OB Good colour on this Meteor Films railway release, which shows a variety of Loco’s, and a railfans special featured “Golden Arrow”

18731 Maunsel Hauled B+ £20 OB Meteor Films railway film shot between 1961-66 with shots of “U”, Class “N” & “Q” and Class “S.15” loco’s, good colour also!

18744 Double Headed B+ £20 Fair colour on Meteor Railways film, it shows “Exmouth” Loco approaching Evercreech Junction on the Somerset & Dorset joint railway (closed 1966)…rare scenes!

18748 N.E. Region B+ £20 OB Good colour on this 1963 filmed Railway short, South of Durham is shown as well as the Darlington Loco shed etc.

18750 Western Region (2) B+/B £20 OB Pretty good colour Meteor Films railways release with shots of Reading station, Paddington etc. in 1959-60

 

Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Silent

18234 Rocket Films – Le Mistral B £15 Rocket Films short looking at the famous French train that ran between Paris and Nice, filmed (I’m guessing) in the 1960’s

18729 Holy Terminus B+ £20 OB Meteor Films which shows shots of the Stanmore branch which opened in 1890 and closed to freight in 1964, the station was built to resemble a Church…Unusual!

Bargain Basement Films

All films in this category will be listed at one price only, there are no discounts on them, but will be priced keenly, as usual P&P must be added, there are a mix of sizes and gauges, Standard 8 films are listed as STD.8, all other films listed are Super 8

 

BB015 Techno Jungle Doc No.1 200’ B/W Italian Sound NEW £4 OB

BB017 Techno Jungle Doc No.3 200’ B/W Italian Sound NEW £4 OB

BB018 Boys in Blue 200’ B/W Silent B+ £5 STD.8 Laurel & Hardy comedy short

BB028 The Music of Benny Goodman 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 slight fade Swing music

BB029 Easter Parade 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 slight fade Judy Garland & Fred Astaire

BB030 Doctor Hairbreadth Harry 100’ B/W Silent £5 OB Fun silent comedy short

BB031 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 200’ B/W Silent £5 Lon Chaney (Sr.) classic

BB041 Rubber Lips Len sings ‘Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey’ 50’ B/W Sound B/B+ £5 STD.8

BB043 I Wan’na Be Like You 200’ Col Sound £8 OB has some fade Disney animation

BB045 Private Life of the Cuckoo 200’ Col Sound £8 OB has some fade Nature short

BB048 The Simple Things 200’ Col Silent B+ £6 OB Mickey Mouse toon from 1953

BB049 The Cure 200’ B/W Silent B+/B £9 OB Walton Charlie Chaplin comedy

BB063 Jubilee Day 200’ Col Silent B+ £7 OB Fine colour on Royal celebrations in 1977

BB066 Dillinger 200’ Col Sound B+ £5 has fade Warren Oates as notorious Bank robber

BB068 The French Connection 200’ Col Sound £8 slight fade Gene Hackman Police thriller

BB070 Movietone News-Power Boat Racing 200’ Col Sound B+/B £8 slight fade 1970’s Doc

BB071 Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 200’ Col Sound B+/B £8 OB has some fade 1978 F.A. Cup Final

BB078 Where There’s a Will 200’ B/W Silent £7 Harold Lloyd silent comedy short

BB080 Sword in the Stone 200’ Col Sound B+/B £8 P/N: no title card Good colour print

BB081 Seen in a Nudist Paradise 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £9 OB Walton release

BB082 Ugly Duckling 200’ Colour Sound B+ £10 slight fade Disney’s 1939 cartoon

BB085 Words and Music Trl. 50’ Col Sound £8 Only average col, music biopic trailer

BB086 Spellbound Hound 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £7 Mr. Magoo cartoon from 1950

BB089 The Lost World 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 Wallace Beery stars, Dinosaurs etc.

BB091 It’s a Gift 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £7 Snub Pollard silent comedy short

BB092 Aerobatic Flying 200’ Col Silent B+/B £7 slight fade See the ‘Red Arrows’ routine

BB093 Call out the Keystone Cops 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 Manic silent short comedy

BB094 Keystone Cops-Taxi Dolls 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £8 Another manic silent comedy

BB095 Keystone Cops-Love, Loot and Crash 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £8 Comedy from 1915

BB098 The Bank 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 OB Charlie Chaplin silent comedy short

BB099 High Hopes 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 OB Walton print of Harold Lloyd comedy short

BB103 New York the Dynamic City 200’ Col Silent STD.8 B £5 OB some fade Castle Films

BB106 Goofy Golfer 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £7 Woody Woodpecker toon Castle Films

BB107 Spook and Spam 200’ Col Silent B+ £10 OB Rare Casper the friendly Ghost cartoon

BB109 Stepping on the Gas 200’ B/W Sound B+ £8 OB 1927 comedy, added music & effects

BB110 The Flying Scotsman 200’ Col Silent B+/B £10 Famous Loco on show…Walton print

BB111 Noah’s Ark 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 Featurette telling the Bible story, unusual!

BB113 The Monster Strikes 200’ B/W Silent B+/B £5 P/N: no titles Ext. ‘The Lost World’

BB114 Parachute Flying 200’ Col Sound B+/B £5 OB has fade Mountain Films release

BB120 F.A. Cup Final 1977 200’ Col Sound B+ £8 has fade Man Utd.2-Liverpool 1

BB122 The Three Caballeros 200’ B/W Sound B+ £9 Donald Duck goes to Mexico

BB123 An Evening with Lady & the Tramp 200’ B/W Sound £9 Disney animated classic

BB124 Misguided Missile 200’ B/W Sound B+ £10 OB 1958 Woody Woodpecker U8 print

BB130 Flicker Flashbacks No.3 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+ £10 Fashions 1920’s etc.

BB132 The World in Flames-Hitler’s Rise to Power 400’ B/W Silent (see description) B+ £6 OB Although this is a sound print, it has poor muffled sound, so selling as silent

BB135 I’m Just Curios 200’ Col Silent STD.8 B+/B £6 Little Lulu cartoon…good colour too!

BB136 Clown of the Jungle 200’ Col Silent STD.8 B+/B £5 Donald Duck cartoon

BB137 Mouse in the House 200’ B/W silent STD.8 B+/B £5 1967 Walter Lantz cartoon

BB139 Crazy Mixed Up Pup 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £6 Tex Avery cartoon

BB142 Donald Duck in the High Andes 200’ Col Sound B £4 P/N: green scratch occasionally

BB145 The Rescue 200’ Col Sound B+ £8 OB slight fade Disney animated extract

BB146 Tarzan to the Rescue 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £8 Elmo Lincoln early Tarzan on screen

BB147 Chaplin-In the Park 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £8 Fun with the little ‘Tramp’

BB148 Pluto’s Christmas Tree 200’ Col Silent STD.8 B+/B £6 OB Disney Xmas short

BB151 Sunset over the Forest 200’ B/W Sound B+ £5 Nature in the raw

BB152 Sing Bing Sing 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+ £10 OB Bing Crosby musical short

BB153 The Whale that Became a Star 200’ Col Sound B/B+ some fade Rare colour print

BB155 Hof Pacifics 200’ Col Sound B £8 some fade 1973 filmed German Railways

BB156 High Society-The Wedding (Pt.2) 400’ Col Sound B+ £7 OB some fade Musical

BB157 High Society-The Wedding (Pt.2) 400’ Col Sound B+ £7 OB some fade Musical

BB158 High Society-The Romance (Pt.1) (280-300’ on a 400’ reel) Col Sound B £4 OB some fade + missing ‘True Love’ song Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly & Frank Sinatra star

BB159 Sing Bing Sing 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+ £10 OB Bing Crosby musical short

BB160 Bee Bother 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+/B £8 OB Ginger Nutt cartoon – Walton

BB161 Nutty Pine Cabin 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £5 Walter Lantz Andy Panda toon

BB162 Keystone Cops to the Rescue 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £7 Manic fun

BB165 The Fireman 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 OB Charlie Chaplin silent classic

BB167 The Best of W.C. Fields 400’ B/W Silent B+ £6 U8 compilation reel, well edited

BB169 Lady and the Tramp 400’ Col Sound B+ £10 slight fade Classic Disney animation

BB171 Rooster Cogburn 400’ Col Sound B+ £10 slight fade John Wayne stars

BB172 Crazy Motoring 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 Walton release looking at whacky cars

BB173 The Man Who Loves Giants 2x400’ Col Sound B+/B £15 OB red hue James Stewart narrates doc. About artist David Shepherd & his loves for steam engines & Elephants

BB174 The Killer Instinct 400’ Col Silent B+ £10 Pretty good colour, Snakes etc.

BB175 I Married a Woman, Pt.3 400’ B/W Sound B+/B £10 SCOPE Odd reel Diana Dors

BB176 I Wan’na Be Like You 200’ B/W Sound £8 Ext. Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’

BB177 Whistle While You Work 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade ‘Snow White’ extract

BB178 Albatross Airlines 200’ Col Sound B+/B £9 OB slight fade The ‘Rescuers’ extract

BB180 America on Parade 200’ Col Sound B+ £10 OB slight fade Disneyland float parade

BB182 The Petty Girl 400’ B+/B £10 OB slight fade Robert Cummings & Joan Caufield

BB187 The River of Doubt 120’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £5 Animated Aesop fable story

BB188 Art for Art’s Sake 120’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £5 ‘Little King’ toon from 1934

BB189 The Naked and the Dead 400’ B/W Sound B £7 OB WW2 film, Aldo Ray stars

BB190 Stagecoach 400’ B/W Sound B £7 Not the ‘Wayne’ classic, it’s a western OK but centres around Geronimo attacking a stagecoach for revenge, as the Cavalry tricked him

BB193 Strange Report-Shrapnel Pt.2 400’ Col Sound £5 slight fade Anthony Quale

BB194 On the Side Pt.1 400’ Col Sound B/B+ £10 Good colour on dubbed sex comedy 1971

BB195 The McMasters Pt.2 400’ Col Sound B/B+ £10 Good colour, IFS double album part

BB196 The Cinderella Story 2x400’ Col Sound B+ £20 OB slight fade Behind the scenes look at the making of the musical ‘The Slipper and the Rose’ Richard Chamberlain stars

BB203 The Heat’s On 400’ B/W Sound B+ £9 OB has a splice, thus price Mae West comedy

BB204 Higher and Higher 400’ B/W Sound B+/B £11 Musical comedy, Frank Sinatra 1943

BB208 Donald Duck-Chip N’ Dale 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £7 Disney cartoon classic

BB209 Charlie the Thief 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 Good print of Chaplin silent comedy

BB210 World War II-Target Tokyo 400’ Col Sound B+/B £8 OB WW2 footage, poor sound

BB211 Never Say Die 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 OB Harold Lloyd silent comedy

BB212 Oh! Mr. Porter 200’ B/W Silent B+ £6 OB Walton ext. from Will Hay classic comedy

BB221 Man Eater of Kumaon 200’ B/W Silent B £3 OB Sabu, Jungle drama/adventure story

BB222 Anchors Aweigh Trl. 50’ Col Sound B £9 Nice colour, green scratch M.G.M. classic

BB226 Muzzle Trouble 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade ‘Lady & the Tramp’ extract

BB227 Bambi and his Friends 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade Disney ‘Bambi’ extract

BB228 Me Big Fight-Popeye 200’ Col Sound £9 OB some fade Robin Williams is ‘Popeye’

BB229 The Dwarf’s Dilemma 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade ‘Snow White’ extract

BB230 Robin Hood & Little John 200’ Col Sound £9 OB slight fade Disney animated extract

BB231 Preserved Locomotives in North America 200’ Col Sound B+/B £7 has fade

BB233 South African Steam 200’ Col Sound B+/B £7 OB has fade PM Films railway film

BB237 Hawaiian Aye Aye 200’ B/W STD.8 B+/B £8 Tweety & Sylvester W.B.’s cartoon

BB238 Robin Hoodwinked 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+/B £10 Rare Tom & Jerry cartoon

BB239 Prince & the Dragon 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade Disney animated extract

BB241 The Wasp Woman 100’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+/B £4 no titles Mountain horror extract

BB244 The Electric Horseman 2x400’ Col Sound B+ £18 OB some fade Fonda & Redford

BB245 Dance Little Lady 5x400’ Col Sound B £30 has fade & occ scratch F/L ftr. For £30

BB246 A Dog’s Life 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 OB Charlie Chaplin 1918 silent comedy

BB247 A Farewell to Arms 400’ Col Sound B+/B £8 OB has fade Rock Hudson stars

BB248 Carousel 400’ Col Sound B+ £10 OB slight fade Shirley Jones & Gordon MacRae

BB251 Donald Duck in the High Andes 200’ Col Sound B+/B £8 slight fade Disney animated

BB253 Peter Pan meets Captain Hook 200’ Col Sound B+ £8 some fade Disney animation

BB254 The Reluctant Rebel 200’ B/W Sound £9 James Stewart in American Civil War film

BB256 The Eagle’s Nest 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 NEW £10 OB Hitler’s Mountain retreat

BB257 Ask A Policeman 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 NEW £10 OB Will Hay comedy classic

BB258 The Early Bird and the Worm 100’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+ £8 OB Harman-Ising toon

BB259 White Christmas Trl. 50’ Col Sound B+ £10 red hue Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye star

BB260 Boxing: Ali Vs., Chuvalo 400’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade 29th March 1966

BB261 Boxing: Ali Vs. Patterson 400’ Col Sound £10 OB 22nd November Las Vegas

BB262 Boxing: Ali Vs. Dunn 400’ Col Sound £7 OB some fade May 24th 1976 Munich

BB263 Boxing: Ali Vs. Shavers 400’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB some fade 29th Sept New York

BB264 Boxing: Liston Vs. Ali 400’ B/W Sound B+/B £11 February 25th 1964 Miami Beach

BB265 Boxing: Ali Vs. Spinks 400’ Col Sound B+ £7 OB some fade September 15th 1978

BB266 Boxing: Skill, Brains & Guts! Pt.4 400’ B/W Sound B+ £9 OB no titles Ali doc.

BB267 Boxing: Skill, Brains & Guts! Pt.5 400’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB red hue Rare col reel

BB268 Boxing: Ali Vs. Bugner 400’ Col Sound B+ £11 OB pretty good colour July 1st 1975

BB269 Boxing: Ali Vs. Wepner 400’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade 24th March Cleveland

BB270 Balloon over the Alps 200’ B/W Silent B/B+ £9 OB BBC film, Switzerland to Italy

BB271 Aviation Oddities 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 OB Early attempts to fly, vintage footage

BB272 Challenge of the Alps 200’ Col Silent 200’ Col Silent NEW £7 OB U8 documentary

BB273 Peter Pan meets Captain Hook 200’ B/W Sound B+ £8 Disney animation at its best

BB274 Dual of the Wizards 200’ B/W Sound B+/B £8 Extract from ‘The Sword in the Stone’

BB275 Snow 200’ Col Sound B/B+ £13 some fade 1963 BTF Oscar nominated short

BB277 Rocket and Roll 200’ B/W Silent B+ £5 OB Abbott & Costello from ‘Go to Mars’

BB278 Big Business 200’ B/W Silent B+ £6 Laurel & Hardy comedy extract

BB279 Bone Trouble 200’ Col Sound STD.8 B+/B £9 no titles Nice colour STD.8 print

BB280 Laurel & Hardy’s Musical Moments 200’ B/W Sound STD.8 B+/B £5 poor sound

BB284 Charlie the Count 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £9 OB Walton Chaplin comedy reel

BB285 Mother Gooseland 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £7 OB Fleischer cartoon from 1934

BB286 The House-Cat 200’ Col Sound STD.8 B+ £6 has fade David Hand cartoon 1948

BB287 Charlies Elopement 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £9 OB Walton Chaplin comedy reel

BB288 The Dixie Fryer 200’ Col Sound B+/B £7 OB Foghorn Leghorn toon from 1960

BB289 The Red Arrows 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 has fade R.A.F., display team on show

BB290 Safety Last 100’ B/W Silent B+ £4 Harold Lloyd in short extract from famous comedy

BB293 Pete’s Dragon 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 OB some fade Disney mix live action/animation

BB294 Cat Fishin’ 200’ Col Sound B £8 Good colour on Tom & Jerry classic

BB295 Jerry and Jumbo 200’ Col Sound B+/B £7 short titles pale colour, couple of splices

BB296 The Truce Hurts 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 pale colour Tom, Jerry & Spike make a pact!

BB297 Soup’s On 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade 1948 Donal Duck & nephews cartoon

BB299 The Royal Wedding of Charles & Diana 400’ Col Sound B+ £10 OB pretty good col

BB300 Mickey Mouse the 1st 50 Years 400’ Col Sound B+ £11 OB some fade Mickey Mouse

BB301 Disney’s Greatest Chases 400’ Col Sound B/B+ £10 OB slight fade Cars, Cars, Cars!

BB302 Charlie the Fiddler -Modern Times 400’ B/W Silent B+ £12 2 Chaplin’s on 1 reel

BB304 Dumbo Makes the Big Top 200’ Col Sound B+/B £6 OB sounded sub-title print

BB305 Herbie the Love Bug 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade The loveable VW’s debut

BB306 Yukon Have It 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 slight fade Walter Lantz Chilly Willy toon

BB307 Dumbo the Flying Elephant 200’ Col Sound B £6 OB slight fade Disney classic

BB308 Best of Woody Woodpecker 200’ Col Silent B+ £4 slight fade Walter Lantz toons

BB309 Channel Swimmers 200’ B/W Silent B+ £6 Keystone comedy short

BB310 Pluto’s Playful Pranks 400’ Col Sound B+/B £13 OB slight fade excerpts 5 toons

BB311 Movie Headlines 1900 to 1950 200’ B/W Silent B+ £9 Walton history reel

BB312 Ginger Nutt’s Christmas Circus 200’ Col Silent B+ £8 OB Fine colour, alas silent

BB313 Rudolph Valentino-Idol of the Jazz Age 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 OB Castle

BB314 Keystone Railroad 200’ B/W Sound B+ £7 OB no titles Silent comedy, Cops & Locos

BB315 Dual of the Wizards 200’ Col Sound B+/B £9 slight fade ‘The Sword in the Stone’

BB316 Roger Corman’s The Undead 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+/B £7 Horror extract

BB317 The Super Nanny 200’ Col Sound B+ £8 some fade Julie Andrews & Disney!

BB318 The Whale that became a Star 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 OB slight fade Rare col copy

BB319 Pastry Panic 200’ Col Sound B+ £10 OB Pretty good colour, ‘Little Ro1uefort’ toon

BB320 Ferry to Hong Kong 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B £3 Walton drama extract

BB321 Royal Visit to New Zealand 1953-54 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 B+ £8 Royal footage

BB322 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade

BB323 Crash Cavalcade 200’ B/W Silent B+ £8 OB Destruction Derby’s etc., cars, cars!

BB325 Can Can 200’ Col Sound £9 OB slight fade Frank Sinatra & Shirley MacLaine film

BB326 Desiree 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade Marlon Brando as Napoleon

BB327 Southern Pacific Steam 400’ Col Silent B/B+ £13 some fade Sunday River U.S. rail

BB328 Day of the Monsters 200’ Col Sound B/B+ £9 OB no titles Fine colour, Raquel Welch

BB329 Clash by Night 200’ B/W silent B+/B £4 OB Marilyn Monroe & Barbara Stanwyck

BB330 No Flys on Us 200’ B/W Sound B+/B £9 OB no titles L&H ‘Flying Deuces’ ext.

BB331 Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman 200’ B/W Silent STD.8 £8 Lon Chaney Jr. horror

BB333 California the Golden State 200’ Col Sound B+ £7 some fade Castle Films

BB334 Colorado High Country 200’ Col Sound £7 some fade Castle Films travelogue

BB336 Terror of the Jungle 200’ B/W Sound NEW £8 OB U8 adventure animal film

BB337 Three Little Words Trl. 100’ Col Sound B £6 has neg scratch thus price

BB338 An Evening with Lady & the Tramp 200’ Col Sound B+ £10 slight fade Disney

BB339 Band Concert 200’ Col Sound £10 slight fade Mickey Mouse & friends

BB340 Sennett All-Stars-Joyriders 200’ B/W Silent B+ £9 Brilliant sight gags featured

BB341 The Whale that became a Star 200’ B/W Sound NEW £8 OB Aquatic fun!

BB342 Escape From Astragard 200’ Col Sound NEW £12 OB Fine Disney extract

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BB343 The Anderson Tapes 400’ Col Sound B+ £7 OB has fade Sean Connery hist movie

BB344 Movietone News Vol.27 (1964) 200’ Col Sound B/B+ £15 SCOPE has an odd neg mark printed through Opening of the Forth Bridge, scenes being filmed for “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’ etc, all in glorious scope, good col too!

BB345 The Mad Tea Party 200’ Col Sound STD.8 B+/B £11 pretty good colour Disney ext.

BB346 Ugly Duckling 200’ Col Sound B+ £11 slight fade Disney F/L cartoon

BB347 King Solomon’s Mines 200’ Col Sound B+ £9 slight fade M.G.M. African adventure

BB348 Patton 200’ Col Sound B+/B £7 OB slight fade George C. Scott WW2 Biopic

BB349 Me Big Fight 200’ Col Sound £10 OB slight fade Robin Williams is ‘Popeye’

BB350 Pathe Pic.: 50th Anniversary of the R.A.F. 200’ Col Sound B+/B £11 slight fade

BB351 Spanish Steam 200’ Col Sound £13 slight fade Wilf Watters railway 1968

BB352 More from Emmanuelle 400’ Col Sound £13 OB slight fade Sylvia Kristel sex film

BB353 Goofy’s Golden Gags 400’ Col Sound £14 slight fade Highlights from Disney toons

BB354 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing 400’ Col Sound B+ £12 OB slight fade Love story

 

 

 

New Stock 8mm Films

New Stock Super 8mm F/L Features B/W Sound

18801 Ride Ranger Ride B+ £65 (3x400’ OB Collectors Club release of this 1936 Gene Autry western (with a song or two thrown in), he’s just been made a Lieutenant in the Cavalry, he falls for the Colonel’s daughter, there’s also jealousy with another Lieutenant, he’s sent into an ambush, but can he overcome all the odds! Well, what do you think!

New Stock Super 8mm F/L Features B/W Sound

18815 Bonnie Scotland B+ £180 (3x600’) One of the rarest Laurel & Hardy comedy features, here presented F/L on B/W stock, it was made in 1935, Stan & Ollie make there way to Scotland thinking Stan was going to get a big inheritance, which turns out to be an old set of Bagpipes and a snuff box. The boys are tricked into enlisting in the British Army and are sent to India, is India really ready for Laurel & Hardy, brilliantly funny and inventive!

 

New Stock Super 8mm Edited Features B/W Sound

18800 Stagecoach B+/B £85 (4x400’) Walton print of this 1939 classic western that turned John Wayne into a star, it also stars Caire Trevor & Andy Devine, a group of strangers travelling together find the going gets tough with Geronimo on the warpath

18852 Victory at Sea B+ £70 (2x600’) This cinema shown WW2 documentary from 1954 tells the story of the allied war efforts on the high seas, with vintage footage on show

18853 Follow the Fleet B+/B £85 (4x400’) OB Brilliant comedy musical from 1936 starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and a young Randolph Scott tagging along, it’s the story of a Sailor (Astaire) who tries to rekindle a romance while on leave in San Francisco

18859 Doctor in The House B+ £75 (4x400’) Fine British comedy made in 1954 set in St. Swithin’s teaching Hospital as we watch a group of medical students trying to become Doctor’s, it stars Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlov, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall etc.

18860 Son of Sinbad B+ £65 (1x600’ & 3x400’) RKO Arabian fantasy from 1955, Dale Robertson & Vincent Price star in this story of Sinbad after just only 2 things, Women (which there are many on show) and the substance Greek Fire (akin to Gunpowder!)

 

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm Edited Features B/W Sound

18661 Man-Eater of Kumaon B+ £75 (4x400’) Walton print of this 1942 adventure film set in India as a Doctor tries to hunt down a man eating Tiger, it stars Sabu, Wendell Corey (as the Doctor) and Joanne Page

 

New Stock Standard 8mm Edited Features B/W Sound

18809 Way Out West B/B+ £65 (2x600’) Super comedy from Laurel & Hardy, the boys are tasked to hand a deed to a Goldmine to their late friends daughter, the trouble is they have never seen her, and a greedy bar owner gets wind of it, and tries to con Stan & Ollie!

 

New Stock Super 8mm 25-30 Minute Colour Sound

18804 Underwater B+ £45 (2x400’) OB Mountain release of this 1955 story of sunken treasure in a recently found shipwreck, and the dangers it brings, it stars Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland & Richard Egan, the 8mm print still retains pretty good colour too!

18805 The Tiger and the Flame B+ £30 (2x400’) OB Mountain release of the first ever Indian film to be shot in Technicolor, made in 1953 (English dub 1956) here we have the English version, it’s the story of an Indian Queen who stands op for herself against British rule in the 19th Century, I can’t say I’ve ever seen this title before, colour is acceptable (a little faded) but this has a few printer marks that come and go, but boy is this rare!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 25-30 Minute B/W Sound

18814 Armand & Michaela Denis – Safari to Asia B+ £35 (2x400’) Made in the late 1950’s (I think it was 1958, not 100% though!) this was one of the first nature programmes to venture to more exotic places in the world, Husband & Wife team Armand & Michaela this time visit many Asian countries to look at the wildlife…I’ve had this a couple of times on STD.8, but this is the first Super 8 print I’ve encountered

18872 Hollywood and the Stars – A Man Called Bogart B+ £55 (600’) Made for TV in the early 1960’s and narrated by Joseph Cotton this looks at the life and career of one of Hollywood’s biggest ever stars, plenty of clips as well

 

New Stock Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Sound

18806 Slap Shot B+ £17 OB Good colour Universal 8 print of this Ice Hockey comedy starring Paul Newman, it’s very funny in places, but beware there is some adult language

18810 Herbie Rides Again Promo B+/B £20 (250’) Pretty good colour on this neat little Disney promo, which is really a mini cut of the 1974 movie about the little VW with a mind of its own which starred Helen Hayes, Ken Berry and Stefanie Powers

18811 Ride of the 480 B+ £35 Derann print with nice colour of this New Zealand Film Unit neat railway documentary, this shows the restoration of the 480 Loco for use on one of their narrow-gauge Railway lines, it includes vintage clips of its early days as well

18813 A Train for Christmas B+ £25 (250’) Excellent colour Derann print of this 1975 New Zealand railway short about the vintage ‘Kingston Flyer’ Loco’s (there’s 2 of them) that takes tourists on trips through some picturesque New Zealand countryside mainly in December

 

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes Colour Sound

18851 Discovering Railways B+ £35 (300’) Fine colour print of this 1977 Railway short presented by Peter Purves who takes us on a rapid tour of the British network, from high-speed trains, the continued electrification of the tracks, rush hour at Waterloo etc. BTF

 

New Stock Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

18802 The Flying Scotsman Runs Again B+ £35 OB Walton print of this 1963 BBC film celebrating the famous steam locomotives 40th Birthday with her first nonstop trip from London to Edinburgh, nice 8mm print on B/W stock too!

18803 Wrong Direction B+ £25 OB Derann release of this 1934 Edgar Kennedy comedy short, he’s an assistant Director who is under pressure to finish a film, but he’s got a temperamental star, and he’s got his obnoxious in-laws to cope with as well…great fun!

18812 Train Time B+/B £35 BTF from 1952 showing how the railways distributed goods and livestock around the U.K., on B/W stock too!

18855 This Was Yesterday B+ £30 Robert Youngson production that looked back 40 years (this was released in 1954) to the events and stars of earlier times, we see the likes of actress Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford & Harry Lauder, this is a Reel Image release, most probably imported into the U.K. via Perry’s Movies back in the day…rare & unusual

18857 Britain’s Three Years – British Movietone News B+ £30 (@ 270’) sepia look, colour stock This covers the war years of 1940, 1941 & 1942, and shows many of the most memorable stories from those years, including Dunkirk and America entering the war after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor plus lots more

18858 Near Victory – British Movietone News B+ £25 (250’) sepia look, colour stock Made at the end of 1943, looks at the efforts of the allies getting to the point of ‘Near Victory’

 

New Stock Standard 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Sound

18856 Liberty B+ £25 Blackhawk Films import here with an added music track of the 1929 Laurel & Hardy comedy, the boys are on the run since escaping Jail, they change clothes in a getaway car only to be wearing each other’s trousers, they try and change trousers during the whole film, even ending up in the girders of a construction site

 

New Stock Super 8mm 16-20 Minutes B/W Silent

18807 Double Whoopee B+ £25 OB Blackhawk Films import of this F/L Laurel & Hardy short from 1929, the boys play a Footman & a Doorman at a swanky Hotel, where they wreak havoc upon the Hotel’s guests…one of the last silent comedies from L&H…It’s a gooden!

18842 The Musical Marvel B+ £25 (2x200’) Rarely seen 1917 Ben Turpin comedy, here released by Blackhawk Films, he plays a Piano player (cum one man band) who has girl troubles out west, as he falls in love with the wife of a bad man

18854 Easy Street B+/B £25 OB Here’s the unusual F/L Walton print of this classic Charlie Chaplin comedy from 1917, the little Tramp decides to join the Police Force, he’s given Easy Street (which it isn’t!) as his beat and must face up to a very large bully who runs it!

18869 From Soup to Nuts B+ £22 (2x200’) OB Laurel & Hardy comedy from 1928, inexperienced waiters Stan & Ollie are hired for a swanky party, chaos ensues!

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18819 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse B+ £20 Good colour print of this 1947 Tom & Jerry classic, Tom is fed up of Jerry stealing his Milk so poisons a bowl full, but instead of killing Jerry it transforms him into a muscular Beast…brilliant fun!

18822 Mickey’s Trailer B+ £20 Good colour on this Disney from 1938, Mickey, Donald & Goofy are on a trip in Mickey’s trailer, when the car pulling it and the trailer part company

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18823 Triplet Trouble B+ £25 Good colour on this rarer Tom & Jerry cartoon from 1952, Mammy agrees to look after 3 seemingly innocent Kittens, who then make T&J’s life a misery

18824 Donald Duck and the Gorilla B+ £20 Good colour on this Disney Donald Duck cartoon from 1944, Ajax the killer Gorilla escapes the Zoo, guess where he shows up!

18826 Hot Stuff B+ £25 Rare copy of this 1971 National Film Board of Canada animated short, which shows gives a humorous look at the origins and benefits of FIRE! Nice Col!

18827 Congratulations Its Pink B+/B £20 Pretty good colour on this 1967 Pink Panther cartoon, PP is working in a National Park when he finds an abandoned Baby left behind accidentally by some hurried campers, can PP get the baby back to them in time!

18828 Movietone News Vol.27 (1964) 200’ Col Sound B+ £30 SCOPE Opening of the Forth Bridge, scenes being filmed for “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’ etc, all in glorious scope, Portland Films re-print with fine colour too!

18829 Patton – The Opening Speech B+/B £15 OB slight fade I’ve not seen this many times, George C. Scott playing General Patton gives his famous speech to camera

18830 Rock-A-Bye Pinky B/B+ £17 OB Good colour Walton print of this 1966 PP cartoon, a man staying in the woods keeps PP awake with his snoring

18831 Pink Valiant B+ £25 Nice colour print of this 1968 PP cartoon set in the Middle Ages, a King’s daughter has been kidnapped by an evil Knight, PP volunteers to rescue her

18832 Look at Life: Alpine Rescue B+ £35 OB 1959 LAL this looks at the work of rescuing people in the Alps using specially adapted planes and equipment, fine colour LPP print

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes Colour Sound

18846 Los Angeles, Hollywood & Beverly Hills B+ £20 slight fade Here’s a nice Panorama Int. production looking at this famous Californian city and its rich suburbs

18848 Music Land B+/B £25 Derann print of this 1935 Disney Silly Symphony cartoon, based around living instruments, the Princess Violin from the sleepy Symphony land falls in love with a more lively Alto Sax from the land of Jazz, will it work out!

18849 The Aristocats meet Scat Cat B+ £20 OB Nice colour print to this lively extract from the Disney animated feature “The Aristocats”

18850 The Jolson Story – Jolson Sings Again Trl.s  B+/B £25 (100’) Pretty good colour on these two Biopic trailers starring Larry Parkes as ‘Al Jolson’ (who sings all the songs!)

18863 The Treasures of Tutankhamun B+/B £20 Pretty good colour print of this Walton release that looks at the treasures found in the ‘Boy King’s’ Tomb

18870 One Million Years B.C. B+ £25 Excellent colour Walton extract from this prehistoric Dinosaur movie starring Raquel Welch

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

18818 British Movietone News Review of 1935 B+ £25 Shown at the end of each year, these newsreels looked back at the biggest stories of that year, this edition is 1935

18820 Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman – Filming the Big Thrills B+ £25 Blackhawk Films import of this rare 1937 short that showed how many disaster stories and natural catastrophes are filmed, with actual footage shown, rare in the U.K.

 

 

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

18821 Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman – Filming the Fashions B+ £25 Blackhawk Films import of this 1930’s produced look at how the latest fashions of the day were filmed for the American newsreels, again with actual vintage footage, rare in the U.K.

18825 Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame B+ £25 Made in 1934, we see Dave and Max Fleischer being interviewed about cartoon sensation Betty Boop, Max paints Betty who comes to life, and we see little excerpts from 3 of her cartoons, really unusual set up!

18847 Pathways of Perfection – Four British Trains B+ £35 Filmed in 1935 this neat Railway film focuses on 4 famous Locomotives being used in the 1930’s, we see ‘The Royal Scot’, ‘The Flying Scotsman’, the ‘Cornish Riviera’ & the ‘Golden Arrow’, B/W stock too!

18662 This is British Movietone B+ £25 OB Presented in its original clamshell case (usually used for 400’ releases) this is No.565 of a limited-edition release, it’s actually the last ever British Movietone edition from 1977 and looks back over it’s 50-year history of telling stories from home and abroad, so a perfect time capsule of news

18664 The Mummy’s Tomb B+ £25 Castle Films release of this 1942 Universal horror starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Dick Foran, the Mummy heads out for revenge on those who desecrated the tomb

18665 British Movietone News Review of 1975 B+ £25 OB Quite a late end of year review (Movietone stopped in 1977), telling the big stories from home & abroad

18866 Universal Newsreel of 1947 B+ £25 Rare newsreel from Universal, it shows the bitter winter of ’47 and the floods afterwards, coal strikes, Grand National, Elizabeth marrying etc.

18867 Harry Roy and his Band B+ £16 OB Music short from the 1930’s which highlights British bandleader Harry Roy

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Sound

18868 Ginger Nutt’s Bee Bother B+ £15 OB Walton print of this 1949 cartoon, Ginger the Squirrel is trying to bring his girlfriend some flowers, but an angry Bee has other ideas

 

New Stock Super 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Silent

18817 Alice’s Egg Plant B+ £25 Very early (1925) animation and live action mix directed by Walt Disney himself, Little Alice & Julius the Cat run an Egg factory, they get a big order, but can they fulfil it on time, one for any lover of Disney animation, especially the early days!

18837 Transports of Delight B+ £25 (100’) OB Rare 100’ Meteor Films release compilation film, with sequences of the Humber ferries, engines in steam at Steamtown Carnforth, and steam activity on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite line

18863 Hollywood the Dream Factory B+ £25 OB Blackhawk Films import which looks back to the early days of Hollywood and its many stars

 

New Standard 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Silent

18843 Donner Pass on the Southern Pacific B+/B £25 OB Filmed in 1958 this shows the 7,056-foot-high Donner Mountain Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada in California

 

 

New Standard 8mm 6-10 Minutes B/W Silent

18844 Alice the Toreador B+/B £25 OB Another of the Walt Disney directed “Alice” series of mixing live action & animation, this time Alice and Julius the Cat enter a Bull fighting competition, but all they have is a broken-down old Cow…what will they do! U.S. Import

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes Colour Sound

18834 Cover Girl - Tonight and Every Night Trl.s B+ £15 slight fade Two Rita Hayworth trailers from 1944 & 1945, pretty good too, although the 2nd one ends abruptly

18845 King of Jazz Trl. B+ £25 (75’) Boy this is a super rare 1930 trailer to the 2 strip Technicolor comedy musical, considering the age of the material used this has good colour, it’s a real oddity, considering the age of the movie, it stars Bandleader Paul Whiteman

 

New Stock Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes Colour Silent

18838 Metropolitan and District B+ £20 OB Photographed between 1963 to 1972 we see Electric Loco No.5 “Sarah Siddons”, then “Jubilee No.45709” at Amersham etc. in this Meteor Films railway release

18839 South Western Limited B+ £20 OB Pretty good colour on this Meteor Films photographed in 1962 we see in detail the “Lord Nelson Class” and scenes of the Salisbury Sheds etc.

18840 Rhodesian Garratts B+ £20 OB Filmed by Wilf Watters, this Meteor Films release looks at class 15A Garratts arriving & shunting around Victoria Falls Station…Good col!

18441 4472 B+ £20 OB Meteor Films release formerly BR Class A3 No.60103 this is the privately preserved & restored “Flying Scotsman”, filmed at “Kings Cross” and other stations like Southampton, Eastleigh, Basingstoke & High Wycombe

 

New Stock Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Sound

18833 MacBeth – Gunga Din Trl.s B+ £25 Two rare B/W trailers, 1st up is the 1948 production of Shakespeare’s famous play Directed & Starring Orson Welles, then we’re onto the 1939 actioner starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen & Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

 

 

 

New Stock Super 8mm 2-5 Minutes B/W Sound

18835 Yankee Doodle Dandy Trl. B+ £20 Nice trailer to this 1942 Hollywood musical inspired by the life of musical composer George M. Cohan

18836 Ceiling Zero Trl. B+ £20 Rare trailer to this James Cagney & Pat O’Brien adventure from 1936 about daring pilots and their exploits

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