I worked for some eight years from the late 1970’s for Columbia Pictures at the New Zealand distribution office Columbia-Warner Film Distributors where we shipped 35,16 and occasionally 70mm prints to theatres throughout NZ and many of the South Pacific territories such as Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. Those days were the halcyon days of film exhibition where prints were constantly on the move and even films some twenty years old still had life left in them and would always be playing somewhere. It was a great era for collecting rare one sheets and publicity materials too, the sorts of things that don’t even get used nowadays in those cold, faceless multi-plex prisons that call themselves moviehouses.
Never one of the ‘giants’ of motion picture production unlike competitors MGM, Warners, Paramount and even RKO – Columbia, under the tyrannical reign of one Harry Cohn actually achieved a lot with comparitively few resources…
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