Have any of the ITV companies ever got involved in the film world. I know Carlton had a movie channel, Carlton Cinema, in the early days of ONDigital but I doubt they ever made any, though surely Granada must have dipped their toe in the water at some point. ABC had a cinema chain but did they make movies also?
YTV offshoot Sunny Films made 'The Best Pair of Legs in the Business' starring Reg Varney - a cinema version of an early Yorkshire play - in the early seventies. It's been shown a few times on Talking Pictures TV.
Don't ITV Studios own one of the largest British feature film archives? Films from Rank, ITC (a subsidiary of ATV back in the day, which was later sold to Carlton) amongst others.
They own the Rank archive as that was bought by Carlton
They own the ITC archive too, but as the T in the name suggests they were a TV production company, not film (They were a sister company to ATV and made their programmes thus didn't become part of Central. They eventually became owned by Polygram and then the archive was bought by Carlton this reuniting the ATV programmes with Centrals)
I'm sure I read that ITV own the largest film archive outside of Hollywood... but that was about 10 years ago so things might have changed.
That doesn't sound right at all. Doing a bit of googling, apparently the 3rd largest in the world is Studio Canal's and the second is UCLAs (not sure if that's Hollywood?). Then there's Bollywood etc so it doesn't seem very likely
Don't ITV Studios own one of the largest British feature film archives? Films from Rank, ITC (a subsidiary of ATV back in the day, which was later sold to Carlton) amongst others.
They own the Rank archive as that was bought by Carlton
They own the ITC archive too, but as the T in the name suggests they were a TV production company, not film (They were a sister company to ATV and made their programmes thus didn't become part of Central. They eventually became owned by Polygram and then the archive was bought by Carlton this reuniting the ATV programmes with Centrals)
I'm sure I read that ITV own the largest film archive outside of Hollywood... but that was about 10 years ago so things might have changed.
That doesn't sound right at all. Doing a bit of googling, apparently the 3rd largest in the world is Studio Canal's and the second is UCLAs (not sure if that's Hollywood?). Then there's Bollywood etc so it doesn't seem very likely
Is that largest as in number of unique movies, or largest as in volume/area/storage capacity?
Wikipedia phrases it as '3rd biggest film library', so that suggests unique movies.
If ITV does have one of the biggest film archives then that would presumably mean actual number of physical reels. Though I'd have thought that most of them wouldn't be feature films, and the BBC or BFI would have more
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Have any of the ITV companies ever got involved in the film world. I know Carlton had a movie channel, Carlton Cinema, in the early days of ONDigital but I doubt they ever made any, though surely Granada must have dipped their toe in the water at some point. ABC had a cinema chain but did they make movies also?
Granada made the 2001 American film, Ghost World. They also made a couple of made for TV films for ITV back in the late 1990’s.
