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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

- posted October 13, 2017 04:40 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I am currently reading "The Richard Burton Diaries" edited by Chris Williams and published by the Yale University Press in 2012.
I thought that 16mm collectors might be interested in Richard's entry written in Paris on 4 October 1968 which I have slightly edited.

"I am absolutely possessed with the idea of buying a large barge and converting it into a river yacht. It would be blissful to go through the French countryside to Marseilles or Germany or Belgium or Holland.
I would buy hundreds of films in 16mm and have a small projection room. Roddy McDowall told me once that he has a library of several hundred films that cost him very little to buy."

And we all know what happened to Roddy McDowall !!!
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I believe that many film stars had the right to 16mm copies of their films written into their contracts. I have a book on Shirley Temple which has a picture of her and her young family watching one of her starring films being projected on a 16mm Ampro projector.

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

- posted October 13, 2017 07:22 AM      Profile for Brian Fretwell   Email Brian Fretwell   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I believe Soddy McDowall was born less than half a mile from where I live.
I wonder how many of us were influenced into collecting by films showing actors and directors showing their movies at home.

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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- posted October 13, 2017 09:01 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Roddy McDowall was born at 204 Herne Hill Road, London SE24, on 17 September 1928.

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Clyde Miles
Expert Film Handler

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From: Bromsgrove, UK
Registered: Nov 2013

- posted October 13, 2017 05:59 PM      Profile for Clyde Miles     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
errol flynn always helped himself to the warners film library, most likely prints he had are still in circulation

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