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Brad Kimball
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Highland Mills, NY USA
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posted November 10, 2008 10:08 AM

I'm so surprised that Universal didn't sue them.

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Winbert Hutahaean
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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
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posted November 10, 2008 10:23 AM

Possibily it was Public Domain, like many Laurel & Hardys.

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
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posted November 10, 2008 11:42 AM

Atlas was a curious distributor. They also released their own versions of films with Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, Popeye, etc. I own a couple of different excerpts from the L&H "Babes in Toyland". I have a feeling that aside from dealing in bootlegs, Atlas either was an outlet company for a few of the big guys or picked up discarded prints from labs. You can find Columbia's 4 part "7th Voyage of Sinbad" in generic Atlas packaging under different titles, but the film inside is the same.

The strange thing is that even though the prints were poor, the folks at Atlas seemed to care about the editing and the dialogue titles. It looks like they used the old Letraset do-it-yourself home movie kits, but they interspersed the titles wisely to get the plot across, sometimes better than the major companies.

Osi, I was contacted by a fellow collector (Ray Faiola) who told me he had sound striped four of the Atlas "FMTWM" cut downs along with some of the Castle footage and ended up with a 40 minute sound print of the film way back in 1971!

Doug

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Osi Osgood
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posted November 10, 2008 11:42 AM

That's possible. that is how "It's A Wonderful Life" ended up on Super 8 , as well as a lot of other earlier releases during Super 8's heyday.

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Charles Phelps
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From: McKinney TX USA
Registered: Nov 2008

posted November 12, 2008 06:14 AM

Hi group,

I have been visiting this site off and on for a couple of years and decided to take the plunge.

My first films were Castle's "The 'Original' Frankenstein" and "The Wolfman's Cure", ordered from Captain Company out of Famous Monsters. I ordered a few more films from them over the years but most would come from K-Mart photo departments. There were none in my hometown so visting a place that had one was always cause for celebration. I accumulated a mix of Castles and Kens, 200-footers and 50-footers and had about 30 by the time 8mm went bye-bye.

In 1997, I was searching for a laserdisc of "The Invisible Man" and someone on message board referred me to eBay. After winning the disc, I did a search for Castle Films and got over 100 hits. The next thing you know, I am trying to get all the films I didn't get when I was a teenager. The count now is somewhere over 400. Crazy, ain't it?

I do have one of the 200' Atlas Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman rip-offs. It is basically an edit of the last couple of reels.

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
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posted November 12, 2008 10:10 AM

Charles,

Welcome to the Forum! Our stories are similar, and the biggest kick I get is when I get hold a film that I wanted as a kid!

Doug

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