8mm Forum: Who was KEN??????

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Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on September 10, 2004, 07:22 AM:

Who was the "KEN" of Ken Films? Was that the company owner's real name, or did stand for something else? Is there a last name? Is he still in the New Jersey area today???

Who is Ken?

Just thought I'd throw that out there this morning. [Smile]

Nick.

Posted by John Hourigan (Member # 111) on September 11, 2004, 01:04 PM:

I believe a gentleman named Bob Lane was the owner of Ken Films if I'm not mistaken. However, I, too, always wondered where the "Ken" of Ken Films originated.

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on September 12, 2004, 12:35 AM:

I believe KEN was Mr. Lane's son or father. I know the company was named for a family member.

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on September 12, 2004, 07:43 PM:

Since people are interested in Ken Films... I was driving through Fort Lee, New Jersey not too long ago and I remembered the Main Street address that Ken Films had printed on the back of their boxes back in the 70's... so, out of curiosity, I drove by the old home of Ken Films and it is now a Middle Eastern home furniture/goods store. I'm not sure if it's even the same building but it's at the end of the busiest street in town right before it turns residential. I couldn't help but fantasize about being there thirty years ago with a warehouse full of super 8 prints! I thought you other 8mm fanatics would get a kick out of knowing that...

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on September 14, 2004, 06:04 PM:

Thanks for the info guys!

Brian- That's really cool. I wish I had been old enough to drive back in '78 - I would have been all over the place checking out the super 8 companies.

I almost visited Red Fox Films in Pennsylvania in the late 80's, since they were only about 3 hours from my house. I kept putting it off, and suddenly they were gone too [Frown]

NICK.

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on September 15, 2004, 12:37 AM:

I actually visited SELECT FILM LIBRARY in Manhattan years ago. My parents took the family to NYC for a winter vacation back in '76 and I remember how disappointed I was to find that it wasn't a "library" of any sorts, but merely a small office in some old building with some old "crones" sitting at their desks answering phones and doing typical office type duties and not hospitable at all to wide-eyed kids like myself who had delusions of grandeur of what a Super-8 company should look like. I was so let down I vowed I never wanted to see any others fearing they would all be the same way. Not big industry companies with a vast museum of films, on site, ready to sell to the collector - but, merely, a P.O. Box in some drab office building that phoned customer orders into a warehouse somewhere from which these orders were then picked & packed (Snore).

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