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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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posted May 11, 2018 01:34 PM

Shorty...and everybody:
http://uschefnerarchive.com/blackhawk-films-catalogs/
THE BLACKHAWK CATALOGUES ARE AVAILABLE ON LINE [Smile]

AT LAST !!! AT LONG LAST !!!!!!

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Joe Caruso
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posted May 11, 2018 02:13 PM

Now...the adventure begins - Shorty

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Antoine Orsero
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posted May 12, 2018 04:50 AM

Thank you very very much

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Bruno Heughebaert
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posted May 12, 2018 05:29 AM

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Bill Phelps
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posted May 12, 2018 08:05 AM

Wow...I don't know where to start. [Smile]

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Paul Adsett
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posted May 12, 2018 08:18 AM

Quite simply, incredible! [Eek!]

Nice picture of our friend Dino Everett in the Archivist section.
Interesting that Blackhawk embraced the ill fated RCA CED video disc system in the early 80's.

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Joe Caruso
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posted May 12, 2018 03:17 PM

Dino, come to Wildwood again, we miss you - Shorty

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Bill Brandenstein
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posted May 16, 2018 04:29 PM

I was just searching all over for this and couldn't find it directly on the website. So Panayotis, how did YOU find this!?

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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posted May 17, 2018 12:52 AM

Look at the top of this page!

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Jason Smith
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posted May 17, 2018 01:25 AM

I just finished reading about this in The Reel Image magazine. Thank you Dino for help making this available to collectors.

Being a relatively new collector, I had never seen a Blackhawk catalog. I was simply amazed at the number of films in their catalog. I've spent the past few hours soaking up all of the information in them.

In one catalog, I came across the infamous RBC agreement that I'm guessing had to be signed if you were going to buy a Chaplain film from them.

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Joe Caruso
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posted May 17, 2018 10:08 AM

Jason, I'm surprised - At my CINESEA table I always bring 6 or 7 of them - Shorty

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Paul Adsett
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posted May 17, 2018 11:30 AM

So Joe, I assume you returned all your prints in 1991? [Big Grin]

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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posted May 17, 2018 12:57 PM

Bill Brandenstein-Sorry for the slight ironic answer.I didn't get the question right.Actually,I can't remember exactly where I saw it.On Dino's facebook page or one of the film collecting pages.I just copied it quickly so as not to lose it!

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Joe Caruso
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posted May 17, 2018 02:08 PM

Oddly enough Paul, I never "leased" an RBC print, so no headaches - Cheers, Shorty

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Jason Smith
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posted May 17, 2018 06:20 PM

Shorty, I never took the time to read them. I wish I had read them before now. There is so much that Blackhawk released on 8 and 16mm.

For anyone who wants to hear more about the back story of how these Blackhawk catalogs became available online, I would encourage you to subscribe to The Reel Image magazine and get this Spring`s magazine.

Here is another screenshot from the magazine I would like to share.
This is from the April-May 1980 catalog. It is really interesting to see how many different options you had for a title like Birth of a Nation. I am guessing that it was a title that sold well for Blackhawk.

[ May 17, 2018, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: Jason Smith ]

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Bill Brandenstein
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posted May 17, 2018 07:25 PM

Panayotis, that's really interesting because if you go directly to the USC Hefner Archive home page and search for this, there are no links that take you to this collection.

Anyway, I just contributed two more to the cause!

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Joe Caruso
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posted May 18, 2018 05:02 AM

Reading these is like old-home week for me, alot of happy times (and memorization), when I was a kid - Oh those code numbers! - Shorty

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