Milestone Catalog

[Brad Moore]

I'm looking for a Milestone Catalog. They were from Monroe Conn. I have been finding 8mm, and super prints, and would like to see a list of other titles they had.

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[milefilms]

People like David Pierce and Bob Birchard would know far better, but having been confused with that Milestone for some years, i have heard some things about their operation. Since many of the films were copyrighted and owned by the studios, I would suspect that they did not have a printed catalog compared to Blackhawk. Perhaps they had photocopies (mimeographed?) at best...

[silentfilm]

Did the first Milestone sell 16mm prints? I've only seen 8mm prints listed for sale.

[Brad Moore]

To the best of my knowledge Milestone was only 8mm, and super 8. All I really know about them was their tannish brown boxes, and they were from Monroe Conn. I believe they used for their source of material, were 16mm Kodascope prints. Any other information, would be interesting.

[Richard M Roberts]

The original Milestone Movies was run by a fellow named Hartney Arthur out in Monroe, Connecticut and made only Standard 8mm and Super 8mm prints. His source materials came from William K Everson. They did indeed have a catalog, which consisted of several fold-out sheets of paper. Their print quality was Blackhawk standard for the most part, and they released quite a number of rare silent titles from both Kodascope and other materials. They even had a few Sound titles towards the end in Super 8 as I recall. I have their catalogs packed away somewhere, but they were a great little distributor, and those yellow boxes were neat.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[moviepas]

I believe I have mentioned Hartney on Nitreville before. I knew Hartney well. He was a fellow Australian and I sold his unique yellow boxed films in Australia. He was involved in film production in Australia in the 1940s(little that there was at that time, the war putting paid to most new production until after the 1970s, really). He appeared in at least one film and thee films he was involved in seemed to be about our famous Ned Kelly bushranger who remain were recently the subject of dna pathology and what not. The guy who produced the Kelly films(more than one and I was involved in donating the earliest 35mm nitrate print(1933) to the National Film & Sound Archives, NFSA. The print was stored in humid conditions and seemed in unusual good order considering the poor and uneducated storage by the deceased owner, an eccentric friend. It had opening and closing credits and other scenes not in the archive copy of said film).

Hartney was never going to go into Super 8 but he did. He was never going to going into striped sound films but he did in Super 8. He did have a catalogue and I sold a lot of his unique prints such as Mickey to willing buyers here and kept prints on hand. I lost contact when VHS/Beta ruined all that with cheaper prices. Funnily enough, being a 16mm collector in those days I kept away from personally collecting VHS until late in the day but got into DVD and Blu Ray from the beginning and Laserdisc from about 1994 when I took the plunge.

I don't think I ever knew what eventually happened to Hartney and he never told me about his connection to Australian films. The later internet did that. He only told me he was an Australian. May well have been the controversy over the Kelly films and finances, I don't know. But his product was god and it sold well in those boxes.

[Rico]

Thanks for all the info on Milestone Film Company. Interesting that he used WK Eversons prints. I have two Raymond Griffith films in those unique boxes mentioned and some pictures taken recently from a Standard 8mm Milestone Print of Paths to Paradise.The print seems to me to be excellent quality for an 8mm film.