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Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 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.------------------
Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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.
Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 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.
Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-31-2001, 01:39 AM:
This was posted recently in usenet:
quote:
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.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 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. 
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 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