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Topic: Africa Screams!! (Abbott and Costello)
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted January 06, 2009 06:42 AM
John-
Thanks for that very interesting information!
I bought a good number of Canterbury Films releases back in the very early 80's, and later I did buy films from Reel to Reel. The quality of Reel to Reel did seem a little different though.
While canterbury's quality was, I felt, a little better than Reel to Reel's, Reel to Reels prints have held up better in terms of color, since they used low-fade film, while Canterbury has some fade (except their b&w prints, of course, which were, and still are, some of the best b&w from that era).
James.
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Robert Crewdson
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From: UK
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posted July 02, 2013 04:45 AM
Osi, I remember seeing this in a Niles catalogue in the late 70s, they also had a short titled Abbott and Costello Bloopers. I wanted to own this at the time, but it was difficult at the time, you had to order through a company called Regent Films in Blackpool. Prices changed daily according to fluctuations in currency. I did get 2 films from Niles, Santa Fe Trail, with Errol Flynn, and Tumbleweeds, with William S. Hart, plus a couple of Blackhawk W.S. Hart films. Both Jack & the Beanstalk, and Meet Captain Kidd were available in the UK but only in B&W.
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