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Topic: Walton Films - the History.
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Ricky Daniels
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 587
From: London & Kent UK
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted May 02, 2015 04:34 PM
Hi Mark,
I'm with you all the way on this one...
Being of your generation and a teen in the early 70's when horror was in vogue, what with Famous Monsters of Filmland, et la, and late night ITV screenings of Universal horror pictures (I was in the Southern TV region) and later Hammer films too.
Every Friday I'd stay up late with my grandparents and watch TV in awe as the Horror classics paraded in front of me. Thus my imagination was truely sparked and we had no other way of repeating those fantastic movie memories other than projecting 8mm (on my pocket money anyway!). So, I'd beg my parents, grandparents and relatives to buy me package films from the Kays retail catologue that every Autumn/Winter would list a load of 50 and 200 footers from Castle Films, etc, and hand cranked Muplet 8mm projectors!
Needless to say once I had a my little collection of films my mates would flock around to my place and we'd watch em over and over and over again, remembering every shot and subtitle (silent prints!)... Golden days indeed.
Of course I graduated to Magnetic Sound prints by the mid 70's and when I acquired a full length copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre my parents were a little shocked about what we were screening in the dining room!!
Happy memories indeed,
Rick
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