Posts: 826
From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jun 2003
posted February 24, 2018 01:58 PM
Osi
Dane Films was UK dealer called Ron Browning based in Indian Queens in Cornwall. He never released super 8 but distributed other companies releases new prints under the title Dane Films . He also bought and sold second hand titles under the Highgate Films.
A salty character good at times but could also be bad.
posted February 26, 2018 11:41 AM
Sorry i don't have any screenshots, but you have inspired me and i think I might try to do a youtube video of this digest if i can get that FLIP camera to give me some good color. It makes almost everything look "fadey" even when it has very good color. We'll see!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
Posts: 2941
From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004
posted February 26, 2018 01:30 PM
I bought a few new print from Dane and the most notable thing I can say about them was that they sold "imports" that genuinely were imports! They offered certain prints from the USA around 1987, during the last days of new US releases, that were not offered by Derann and or probably any other UK dealer. I think some were Thunderbird trailer reels - but not from Thunderbird (who had gone out of business, like nearly all US distributors) but from the company that had obtained some Thunderbird masters. I think this may have been called Moorcraft. The most obscure item I still have is a 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' (1986) production short that's video to film, but still nice to have because it's so unusual. I've never seen one offered since and I'm not sure who released it.