How did Blackhwak Films price their releases?

[William Ferry]

Here's a link to a fairly complete Blackhawk Films catalog collection. My experience was that what we'd call one-reelers back in 1973 went for $6.98. Generally these were 175-225 feet. Anything from say, 250-425 feet would be a "two-reeler" (on a 400 foot reel), at $12.98. For any films of greater length, including features, prices were fairly consistent, based on the number of reels. Sound films followed a similar pricing/footage structure.

[Dominique De Bast]

The French company Film Office also often printed the exact length of their films on the boxes.

[Winbert Hutahaean]

Hi all,

From many 8mm film companies a long time ago, Blackhawk was the most honest ones in terms of the footage length. All other companies were never telling us what was the actual footage of their releases. Columbia did only put a disclaimer "Films on 400' reels are not less than 320' in length".

But Blackhawk always put the actual footage length in every label coded as FTG XXX (eg. FTG 387 means 387').

I always found in many catalogs these companies put a flat rate based on the reel size, e.g Ken Films, Columbia, Universal priced a 400' color and sound for around $52-54. Marketing Films and UFA put DM 149 for the same reel size. Only Elvis Presley from Ken Films priced a little expensive because each title has 375' length.

So with these various footage length of Blackhawk's releases ranging between 250' to 425' on a 400' reel, how did they price it? Were the prices different depending on the footage length or they did have a flat rate price like other companies?

Would be really great if someone can upload the scan of the most recent Blackhawk's catalog.

Cheers,
Winbert