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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-30-2001 12:49 PM

I just saw on their web-site that Kit Parker Films is no longer in the film distribution business. They say they will now focus their efforts on DVD distribution.

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-30-2001 12:50 PM

I wonder what's going to happen to all the cartoons they were distributing. (Looney Tunes, etc.) Of course many of the prints were shot.

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 08-30-2001 03:32 PM

Then they should change the name of their company to Kit Parker Videos instead. The way they screwed up so many film prints, I'm sure they'll find a way to make sure the videos are somehow screwed up, too.

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-31-2001 01:39 AM

This was posted recently in usenet:

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You can bid on the Kit Parker 16mm prints from seller kdu719@aol.com
on ebay. He's selling off the collection, film by film. Lots of
great items. The rare art-house or foreign films are often selling
for less than what one used to rent them for.

Ahh, the memories of finding a cool short was available from Kit Parker, getting it in, looking at it, cursing, patching it up & running it before a feature.

Print condition from Kit Parker Films could very often have been better, but audiences seemed to enjoy them & understand that print condition on old flicks can be a crapshoot. And it must be acknowledged that previous projectionists were often the cause of the prints being in rough shape.

And now those films are completely unavailable.

You don't miss your (kinda funky-tasting) water 'til the well's run dry.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 08-31-2001 02:38 AM

No, no, no, Ken. It should be called Kit Parker DLP! That is just what we need for the future of digital cinema.

Long live film.

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 08-31-2001 12:33 PM

Kit Parker Films has long been the butt of bad jokes, but I think that it was the theatres that were the reason the prints were so awful. There are still too many theatres that simply dont give a damn about the print condition. KPF was the distributor.

I'd love to have a few 35mm prints that they had. I'd have them running after a few hours of repair work and not have any problems admiting it.

Bruce

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