What rarities do you have in your collection?
I think this little film is rare, unfortunately my screen shots are not good. This 16mm film, titled 'Anthem' was made by the Dawn Trust, Aylesbury, Bucks. It only runs for 2 - 3 minutes, and features a choir singing 'The Hallelujah Chorus'; in itself that is not interesting; what is interesting, to me at least, is that 4 rather poor looking men come into the church and take a seat at the back. When the camera stays on them for a while, you can see that the second from the left is actor Eric Portman. This is not recorded on IMDB.

Not too sure if some of these are what you would call rare but i dont see them on many list and havnt for years. I Know some of you will also have some of these,

We do have a great colour 4 x 400 of Flying Leathernecks, there's stacks of the b/w versions but this one is colour and superb colour it is,
400 footer of Cross of Iron, (unfortunately a little scratched but this is how is was bought).
Dont give up the ship feature Jerry Lewis,
Fifth Element, scope stereo 400 footer.(its actually the full reel 2 of the feature)
Jason and the Argonauts 400 footer Derann release of Talos, (joined with the other 3 200 footers),
Master & Commander Part 5 only scope stereo, The battle, a great item
Stingray. Emergency in Marineville Std 8mm 400 foot sound b/w
Stingray. Stingray is launched Std 8mm 400 foot sound b/w
The Beatles come to town.Scope 200 ft sound
The last valley 5 x 400 foot feature version
The Mean Machine Full length feature
Top Cat. TV episode. TC minds the baby 400 foot colour sound
Top Cat. TV episode. Dibble breaks the record 400 foot colour sound
Winchester 73 full length feature Std 8mm
Indipendent 8 Ad reel 1
Dancin' in the Street, Live Aid 84 promo
Indiana Jones The last crusade in production teaser
Jaws Special promo Scope
Winchester 73 trailer super 8
The Raven Scope long trailer
Young Frankenstein long trailer

For me it's a 400' digest called "I Bombed Pearl Harbour" which is taken from the 1960 Toho war film "Storm Over The Pacific". Oddly enough the title on the box (which features some truly awful box art) has the title misspelled "I Bombed Parl Harbour"! The digest runs about 17 minutes and concentrates on just the Pearl Harbor raid.The full length film has the main characters dealing with that and the Midway attack. My copy still has decent color and very good sound.No clue who released it as the box doesn't show a distributor.Here's the box top (which looks like a child traced it from the Ken Films "Tora!Tora!Tora! box.)

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I've got Dibble breaks the record Tom! It's great, a proper throwback to the 70's. Got another Top Cat also but can t remember what it's called.

Some of those films bring back memories Tom and Andrew. What was interesting was that Dan Duryea appeared in both versions of 'Winchester 73'. I was shown a print of one of the Stingray films many years ago, and it was great quality.

Winchester 73 was the first film where an actor, James Stewart, did a deal to take a percentage of profits rather than a wage. It started the millionaire actors.

Thanks Tom, I didn't know that.

What type of film is Mean Machine Tom? Optical or Magnetic?

All of them on FILM

Most Dangerous Game
King Kong
Mighty Joe Young
Son Of Kong
Jason and the Argonauts

Think it best if I just stick with my first statement.

I've got Stingray Deep Heat, there's a few lines but it's a nice sharp print on super 8. Oh Mr. Porter uncut 5 X 400 ft.

Mean machine is fiull length marketing print with excellent magnetic sound & still has great colours to. Our version is the original USA title The Longest Yard.

Ah yes that's right Tom, couldn't think for the life of me who released it until you reminded us all it is indeed a full length Marketing Print.

Lovely print Tom, and good to see its keeping its colour really well!
Well done to you Tom!

I've got the full length 'Oh Mr Porter' 5x400. Also a reel from Brakespeare films, that was run by a film historian, it covers the period 1895 to about 1903, and includes some incomplete shorts from Robert W. Paul, and troops returning from the Boer War in 1899, as well as a street scene in China in the 1890s.

I guess it must be my The Adventures of Robin Hood, Highlander, Casablanca, Gremlins, Star Wars 4-6 (sadly 1997 editions), Stargate and Death on the Nile

Gunga Din full feature,
Pink Floyd, The Wall promo
Terminator 2 Scope/stereo. Not sure if this is rare????
The Rover,(aka The Adventurer) Anony Quinn, 3 x 400 Great score by Morricone
The Trap, Again, not too sure if this is rare but its a great Olly Reed Film.
US Counrty Show Vol 2
US Counrty Show Vol 6
Xanadu maybe a little rare with this colour??

Who did Gunga Din, I just have it on VHS.

Robin Hood is stunning Vidar, I only have the Derann 4 X 400 and the colour is on the turn, I may have said before that the Maid Marion reel is very soft focus.

The best Super 8 print I've seen. Thanks to Hugh I got this

im not too sure Andy, we bought it from perrys a few years ago, it was on 5 400 foot spools, quite good quality to.

Andrew,
Top Cat is a great throwback to the sixties,not seventies!

Ah yes, sorry Panayotis,I was just recalling when I first got to watch these things on UK television.

Top cat, a classic forgotten about, based on sgt bilko, and benny the ball was actually in the series with Phil Silvers, chooch was the guy out of mad mad world who ran the g
arage that got smashed to bits.

I love em along with the other excellent Columbia 400ft releases the Flintstones.

I have 3 Flintstones editions and 2 Top Cat. All have really good colour still which is an added bonus.

Top Cat was so popular in the the early sixties, we even called our cat Choo Choo, and he did 'Blur, Blur, Blur' and never came back. Yeah Benny the Ball was Doberman from Bilko.

Officer Dibble was voiced by Allan Jenkins, who appeared in many Warner Bros filmsi in the 30s.