Carlton UK Signs Up For Five More Years With RITY

Discussing plans for the next half-decade are (l. to r.) Reelin' Vice President Scott Chatfield, Carlton's Director of Sales Louise Sexton, Carlton's Managing Director of International Sales Judith Howton and Reelin' President David Peck.

CANNES, FRANCE-- Carlton International Media Limited of the UK signed a five-year contract renewal at the recent MIPTV convention for California-based Reelin' In The Years Productions LLC to continue to exclusively represent Carlton's vast library of musical footage. Recent joint efforts between the two companies have unearthed rare footage by The Beatles, Roy Orbison, Traffic, Elvis Costello, The Who and others, and more exciting discoveries are sure to follow.

In recent years, Carlton has acquired many significant television programs from the ATV/ITC library. Because the ATV/ITC library has changed hands many times, an accurate inventory of its contents has been difficult to assemble. RITY and Carlton are currently tackling the project together with much enthusiasm.

"We're very pleased that our friends at Carlton have enjoyed the relationship as much as we have," said RITY President David Peck. "And the fact that they're committing to five more years means we're bound to unearth many more musical treasures together.

Carlton's Managing Director of International Sales Judith Howton agrees. "Carlton International is thrilled to be working with a company who shares such a passion for programming and I am confident that the next five years will prove incredibly rewarding to all concerned."

"So far, the discoveries have been amazing," added Peck. "We've uncovered the earliest-known footage of The Who performing "My Generation" in concert from 1965. Until last March, Who scholars and the band's management thought the tapes were destroyed," he recounted. "On our last trip to London, we found what is probably the earliest color television film of Roy Orbison, dating from 1966. It's a mini-concert from the London Palladium that was filmed as a test for the eventual conversion of British television to color, a change that didn't occur until two years later. It never aired."

Carlton now owns more significant '60s TV variety footage than any other archive in Britian, including the BBC. Reelin' In The Years Productions exclusively represents the Carlton musical library as well as 20 others, making RITY the largest musical archive in the world.