Talk:Republic Pictures

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[edit] Blackhawk Films

Typing in Blackhawk Films into wikipedia one is directed to the Republic Pictures page yet there is nothing about Blackhawk on the page. Blackhawk Films was a company in the 1960's to early 1980's that released mainly vintage silent films on to the home movie market in 16mm, 8mm, and/or Super 8 film and it would be nice for them to have their own page on wikipedia. I believe Republic did buy the company out in the mid 1980's and immediately got out of the film market and released some of their titles on video. (Teeb 05:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC))

So basically, Republic Pictures now belongs to Paramount Pictures? --68.37.116.234 21:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Paramount Pictures is more of a sibling to Republic Pictures now, both of which are owned by Viacom. (Electricbolt 18:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Did Republic Pictures have reciprocal arrangements with the major studios?

1)In an interview, Bob Clampett said that after he made his "It's a Grand Old Nag" cartoon in Trucolor, Herbert Yates said he didn't want any cartoons as he had arrangements with other studios to provide them for showing with a Republic Program (does anyone recall which studio?) 2)Some Australian film posters for Republic Pictures have "Released through 20th Century Fox" printed on them.

Is it possible that Republic was encouraged to stay with 'B Pictures' to avoid competing with the major studios?Foofbun (talk) 09:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)