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1 article from 1997

L.A. Film Collection Winds Up In U.K.

20 August 1997 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

British media group Carlton Communications has acquired the Raymond Rohauer Film Collection, a library of classic films that the late Los Angeles art house exhibitor screened at the Esquire and Coronet Theaters from the '50s until his death in 1987.The collection includes 600 silent films, including comedies by Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and W.C. Fields as well as the original Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, The (1915), and Thief of Bagdad, The (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks. Terms of the deal were not announced, but published reports in London put the price at between $17 million and $25 million. It is believed that the collection could serve as the backbone of a new movie channel for Carlton. »

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