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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted December 22, 2008 02:06 PM

Does anybody have any info on this company who operated out of Northern Ireland in the 70's?

-Mike

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peter booth
Master Film Handler

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From: scarborough,north yorkshire
Registered: Jul 2004

posted December 22, 2008 03:05 PM

Erne Films operated out of 546,Woodchurch Road,Birkenhead,Merseyside and 9,Celtic park,Enniskillen,Co
Fermanagh,N.Ireland.They stocked titles from Marketing and
Universal 8,and Cinemascope titles.
regards,Peter.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted December 22, 2008 03:07 PM

Thanks Peter. Didn't realise they had an office in Liverpool as well.

Any idea who the owner was at all?

-Mike

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peter booth
Master Film Handler

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From: scarborough,north yorkshire
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posted December 22, 2008 03:21 PM

Hi Mike,
Cant say who the owner was,but they were selling Features in December 1981 at£65 + £2 post,some of the titles were Star trek-The Motion Picture,When Worlds Collide Airplane,One Eyed Jacks
Escape To Alcatraz,and 4 reel Universal 8 titles at £35 + £1.50 Post,
Regards,peter.

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted May 14, 2009 10:05 AM

I've seen this very late but I think I recall that when they shut down they advertised, probably in 'Movie Maker' for a buyer to take on the company. An unusual point was that any buyer would have also received some original footage of the Pope in Ireland and possibly even some artwork in relation to what they appeared to have planned as a Super 8 release of their own.

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Adrian Winchester

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Mark Williams
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: West Sussex
Registered: Mar 2007

posted May 14, 2009 01:10 PM

Adrian,

Just looking at an advert for Erne films in an old issue of Movie Maker dated Dec 1979 they had some very competitive prices for the current super 8 releases of the time,Marketing 6 reelers for £78 a pop and you could even purchase one reel at a time for £26.95!

They also used to run a movie club,was anyone a member here??

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