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Kit Parker Films @40 – Part 7
I saw my first DVD and knew it was all over… The former Kit Parker Films building in Sand City,CA Kit Parker Films continued humming along throughout the 1990s. Videotape shut down most of the...
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The Dinosaur Club – Lamont Johnson
In his 80s he still had that amazing voice… One of the members of our “club” was Lamont Johnson (1922-2010)(1)(2), who used his dynamic bass radio voice on network radio while still in his teens. He...
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The Dinosaur Club – Don Hanmer
George Reeves, Barry Nelson, DeForest Kelley and Betty White were Don Hanmer’s “co-stars” in his first film role. Don Hanmer (1918-2003)(1) was introduced to me by Ralph Senensky at our very first...
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Is “A Walk in the Sun” in the Public Domain?
A week doesn’t go by that I’m not asked that question. The answer is “yes,” but it’s still protected by copyright… Under well-established copyright law, the distribution, sale, and exploitation of...
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Who Was Craig Kennedy?
I bought the Weiss Global Enterprises film library in 2004, and one of the properties was “Craig Kennedy.” Who was this character? While going through some old files I discovered that he was...
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“Craig Kennedy, Criminologist” (1950-53) Television Series
Continued from my previous blog, “Who Was Craig Kennedy?” “Craig Kennedy, Criminologist” Series Episodes (in alphabetical order) “*” Denotes this episode is part of the DVD collection sold by VCI...
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The Weiss Bros. – Artclass Pictures Part 1
It started with a nickelodeon in 1907… The Weiss Brothers, pioneer motion picture exhibitors, producers and distributors, financed, produced and/or distributed around 200 feature films, serials, and...
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The Weiss Bros. – Artclass Pictures Part 2
“An announcement to the trade that will prove a big surprise to the trades will be made next week” – Not! In 1922 the Weiss Brothers purchased U.S. rights to a rather uninspired 52-reel Italian epic,...
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Weiss Brothers – Artclass Pictures: Silent-Era Filmography
The Weiss Brothers – Artclass Pictures SILENT ERA FILMOGRAPHY Weiss Bros. Distribution Entities – Silent Era Artclass: Weiss Bros. – Artclass Pictures Clarion: Clarion Photoplays Numa: Numa...
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Weiss Bros. – Artclass and Beyond – The Sound Era
There are low budget movies, and there are no-budget movies. 1926 The sound-era came to Weiss Bros. – Artclass Pictures a year before Vitaphone and “The Jazz Singer.” Dr. Lee DeForest...
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Lippert “Scores” Again
When I think of movies like “Hellgate” (Lippert/1952), directed by Charles Marquis Warren, and “The Tall Texan” (Lippert/1953), directed by Elmo Williams (Oscar-winning film editor on “High Noon”), I...
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Wide-Screen Aficionados Stop Here
Like a box of See’s candies…which should I try first?… Bob Furmanek’s web site, www.3dfilmarchive.com, is a great place to read about the golden age of 3D movies. The only problem is selecting which...
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Lost and Found: Gasoline Alley and Friends
I wanted to write about the pleasures of watching “Gasoline Alley” and “Corky, of Gasoline Alley.” They’re well written and directed by the underrated, Edward Bernds, with above average...
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“Talk’s Cheap, Action’s Expensive”…
…producer-exhibitor Robert L. Lippert’s mantra and, appropriately, the title Mark Thomas McGee’s biography/filmography of the man and his films as published by BearManor Media. I’m a B-movie...
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Lost and Found: “Mr. District Attorney”–“Counterspy”
I hired a private investigator to find the heirs… My passion is to seek out “orphan” movies, and adopt them into my film library. Sometimes it takes a few months, sometimes over 10 years. I...
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An Oklahoma Handshake
I don’t remember not doing business with VCI. Bill Blair, Rebecca Garza-Ortiz (nee Blair) [1976] Betty Scott [1969] Bob Blair [early 1970s] Don Blair [1970s] Our relationship began 40 years...
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Medallion TV Enterprises
Medallion had some good movies, and some junk. I purchased the Medallion TV Enterprises library in 2008. John Hertz Ettlinger (1924-1993) served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during WWII, and...
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“I’m Sorry I Ever Made B-Movies”
“I’d like to see a big star shoot a movie with no retakes.” — Margia Dean Margia (pron. Mar-Juh) Dean was born Marguerite Louise Skliris to Greek parents in Chicago on April 7, 1922. Her hair is...
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December 31, 1959
By Margia Dean, guest blogger George Raft was a friend of mine, and I worked with him in the film, “Loan Shark” (Lippert/1952). On December 30, 1959 my date and I flew to Havana and gambled at...
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ADDING Scratches to Film?
You see it every day on television. Scratches, splices, specs, and hairs added by computer to reenacted scenes in order to make them appear “old.” They do it to vintage film, and pre-HD video...
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