Blake, Regent and N.S (Nathan Scheinwald) Productions
Hi fellow collectors!
Not sure if this would be better in the 'dating the daybill' section but I'm looking for any help people might be able to give. As I like to collect horror and exploitation titles, I find that many of the posters have either Regent, Blake of N.S Productions as their distributor. I've learned a little about Nathan Scheinwald but was wondering if anyone had knowledge about the other two distributors?
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Yes and will post some details sometime but I am curious to hear information from what anyone else may have to say first. Have had in mind for a while now to start a thread on Regent, Cemp, Cemp- Regent, Blake, Ray Films IFD. National Films Of N.S.W, Merite, Astra Films and other independent Australian film distributors but wasn't sure if there would be enough interest shown in this subject. I often start threads that immediately sink without trace so I am a little hesitant to spend too much time these days on subjects that members don't bother to show any interest in.
As you are probably aware Nathan Scheinwald was mainly a distributor of foreign language films in Australia and not known for horror and exploitation titles.
Hondo
Nathan it is and I have changed the above spelling accordingly. What you mentioned is possibly correct but as this type of film and period of the 1970s and 1980s particularly doesn't interest me. One comment I would like to make though is when I ran a film society many years ago he hired out 16mm films and somewhere I have a very thick catalogue of his which he didn't wish to send to me but finally I talked him into sending it to me. It has hundreds of American and British films and along with details on the titles each film marked with a code for the individual package it came from for television release. I never hired anything from him as his prices were far too high including his foreign films. I mainly hired foreign films from Quality Films such as Seven Samurai and The World Of Apu from their back catalologue at very reasonable prices
Keep your interest in mind regarding my possible thread on independent distributors and I will post some details on Regent & Blake that you inquired about later on..
Hondo
Cemp - Regent...now that's a company that released some classy drive-in stuff in the 70's! Check out the daybill for 'Bummer'! I'll try to attach a couple of N.S daybills too.
One of the better Cemp posters and as I think about it films that they released as well.
Hondo
Another independent Australian film distributor of the late 1950's was Wide World who's product was distributed by Universal. Any images would be appreciated or at the very least the name of any film titles with Wide World printed on them.
Hondo
Ray Films was a short lived Australian film distributor of the 1950's but had some product released in New Zealand also. I will write some more detailed information on Ray Films one day but I will leave you with this bit of advertising from Ray Films from the 50;s stating they were '' The Biggest independent distributor in the Southern hemisphere'', Any questions on anything to do with their product let me know?
Hondo
One more small distributor of foreign language films in Australia was Robert Kapferer.
Hondo
Seven Keys is a later independent Australian film distributor than those I have been referring to on the thread.Seven Keys was formed in 1969.Other distributors from this later period include Filmways, Cinecenta and others.
Hondo
"How wonderful is Death?
Death and his brother Sleep!
One, pale as yonder waning moon
With lips of lurid blue..."
It's not a company that instantly comes to mind - what sorts of films did they release?
If all Anjohn daybills are like the examples on this thread thus far then I don't believe I have any.
After further research it appears the vast majority of Blake Films released in the 1960s have no images available to view on Google or elsewhere. Blake Films theatrical film releases in Australia in the 1960s was up their with the major distributors in total numbers of films released.
But, gee whiz, they're my kinda company
An interesting point about Nathan Scheinwald released films from the 1950s and 1960s is they were classic foreign language films from around the world of which I haven't located any Australian daybills, one sheets or three sheets for.
Only when Mr. Scheinwald apparently had to switch to sexploitation titles to survive in the distribution business in the 1970s did Australian posters under the N.S.productions banner seem to happen and only seem to appear in limited quantities.