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Your Price: $ 34.99
Item Number: 870-1
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Circa: 1940's
Condition: good/ see description
Size: 8mm
Country of Origin: United States
Manufacturer: Castle Films
This is a collection of 6 vintage 8mm Castle Films News Parade home movie films from the 1940s. Including the original boxes, the titles are: Manila Liberated-Iwo Jima; Germany Invades Austria [headline edition]; Bismarck Sea Victory (#140)[complete edition]; Marines Capture Tarawa (#147)[complete edition]; with the remaining two films missing their respective title flaps. Condition: no guarantees that these films will still play; boxes in good shape, two missing title flaps, some bumping to corners. Please email me with any questions I will be happy to answer to best of my knowledge; as I am not an expert in this field, I will be glad to send additional images upon request.
A Little History: Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in 1924 by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle. In 1937, Castle began making 8 mm and 16 mm home movies, buying newsreel footage and old theatrical films for home use. Castle's first home movie was a newsreel of the Hindenburg explosion.That same year, Castle launched his "News Parade" series. Their films were sold at camera shops,department stores, and mail order catalogs. Castle obtained home-movie rights to cartoons from several animation studios, including Terrytoons (1938), Ub Iwerks (1941), and Walter Lantz (1947). In 1947, United World Films, Inc., the non-theatrical division of Universal Pictures, purchased Castle Films, changing its name to Universal 8 in 1977. The era of home video brought an end to Universal's home movie enterprise in 1984.
The complete inventory of Castle Films (more than 1000 titles over 40 years) is listed in Scott MacGillivray's book Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide, ISBN 0-595-32491-6.
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