As i noted earlier about the start of Lion International:
You can find it here: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/457344/
and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Lion_Films. Granted it
does not say that Lion Internantional Flms started then, but it's
clear that the receivership of London Films aka Alexander Korda, who
bought British Lion for the Shepperton studios, is a turning point
where several producers found an outlet for their films.
The article mention the Boulting brothers and Launder & Gilliatt.
Makes perfect sense that the National Film Finance Corporation wanted
the IFD also to use the new distribution channel.
Op 22 jun 2015, om 15:15 heeft Richard C Evans het volgende geschreven:
If this is accurate then IFD (Independent Film Distributors) was
using Lion International from 1950.
(IFD apparently existed 50-59.)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E1ioAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP174&lpg=PP174&dq=ifd+woolf&source=bl&ots=ehI2myI7tF&sig=oCAsIlRVdncbJvlm8vm6HtXz4og&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAmoVChMI0fb5mrCjxgIVLCrbCh0YNAix
#v=onepage&q=ifd%20woolf&f=false
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On 22 Jun 2015, at 13:08, Paul Gerrard <00000060c3f9be9c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu
> wrote:
David,
It appears Lion International was indeed created in 1955, just
after the old British Lion collapsed with Korda’s London Films and
was resurrected under new ownership. Some brief columns in the Sept
21, Nov 15 and Dec 2 editions of Motion Picture Daily 1955 describe
the set-up of the new firm. These can be accessed via http://mediahistoryproject.org/
and searching for “lion international” 1955.
There’s also a snippet from the Economist Newspaper 1966 on Google
Books http://tinyurl.com/pe7bbce that seems to be tracing the
history of those related companies.
I can’t find any reference to the name Lion International being
used prior to that point either in the Media History database, in
the BFI database, search engines, or on posters, advertising
material etc. The Kinematograph Yearbooks for 1949/1950 (also in
the database) only mention British Lion, London Films and London
Films International.
This would explain the absence of the London Films logo, which was
by then defunct. The poster must be from a later release then,
perhaps corresponding with the US 1956 release. Despite my slight
reservations about Lion International initially, this still
surprised me, as I have to admit I was still leaning more towards
first release purely because of litho number, print quality, and
the Heritage version possibly being a domestic exception only.
Whatever the case, I think it’s worth reiterating that any early
British material for The Third Man is exceedingly rare!
Will be interesting to see if the BFI or British Lion can provide
more info on releases.
Paul
www.movieposterstudio.com
In a message dated 20/06/2015 21:46:09 GMT Daylight Time, shadow....@gmail.com
writes:
I wrote to one of the people I know at the BFI a day or so ago
asking if they could help shed some light, I am waiting to hear
back - as an aside, they own a Quad for the film, not a UK1SH....
I also wrote to Peter Snell, CEO of British Lion (yes, I used
Google to find him/the company) but sadly his email bounced back, I
do have another option and have written to him there.
David
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