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Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on March 06, 2013, 03:03 AM:

Hi,

"of course" Derann's prints are missing... However they've got at least some of the Italian and Japanese covers in their list:
http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_category&category_id=409

Jörg

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on March 06, 2013, 07:18 AM:

Why did you expect the Derann 'Star Wars' feature to be missing, as it was a fully-licenced release with box art? Maybe a member here can help them out with a scan.

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on March 06, 2013, 08:01 AM:

Because it's newer than the digests, because those collectors most likely haven't got any clue about film, because it's hard to find the Derann-print on a flea-market for 5 bugs and because Derann was a much smaller company than Ken, ... .

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on March 06, 2013, 01:17 PM:

Fair enough, although at present the Derann feature seems to turn up a lot more frequently than many of the releases they feature include.

It's a debatable point whether Ken was a bigger company than Derann, even if they were for much of their history, as their output was only a fraction of Derann's vast range of titles. But I acknowledge that they had a higher profile in the mass market days.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 06, 2013, 01:49 PM:

The argument can go two ways ...

If you include all of Ken Films "subsidiaries" (other countries that sold Ken Films under they're own titles or companies), Ken Films was by far bigger.

However, if you go by number of titles over the many years they were a company, Derann Films beats out Ken Films by a landslide.

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