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Dec 28 13 12:08 PM
Anyway, to answer your question, yes, legal 16mm prints of features were sold, on a custom-order basis, to individuals back in the 1960s, by AAP, when they owned the pre-48 WB library. If I remember correctly, black and whites were like $200.00 and colors were $300 or $350, regardless of title. It was this precedent that attorneys defending innocent film collectors used in humiliating the MPAA and FBI during various "piracy" court cases in the 1970s. The MPAA claimed that the studios NEVER sold their movies directly to collectors. The attorneys used original AAP catalogs and filled customer order forms as evidence, forcing the judges to tell the MPAA and FBI to go home and stop wasting the courts' time.
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