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From a small home studio and a handful of video titles, the Film Studios Ltd has now grown into thriving film and media business, working from its base in the Derbyshire countryside.

Film Studios director Mark Whitfield began the business in 2004, teaming up with a local film-maker to supply a selection of quality local interest DVDs to retailers and online customers.

Since then, Mark has taken the business forward, sourcing many new and exciting films from local film makers around the UK and bringing them to the public eye via the company's own websites - www.localdvds.co.uk and www.ghostdvds.co.uk - and hundreds of retailers big and small across the country.

Film Studios Ltd now has over 250 titles in its catalogue, available from a host of high street retailers and also online at our dedicated websites on the right.

And we've a host of exciting new projects to launch in the coming months too.


Since the creation of the first titles in the Past in Pictures series, our Film Studios titles have been making the headlines in newspapers across Derbyshire and beyond.

Take a look through some of the clippings using the links below...

  • "Town's past on view at premiere" (Launch of Ripley's Past in Pictures)

  • "Fighting bears gives picture of the past" (Reaction to Ripley premiere)

  • "Journey back into the past" (Alfreton's Past in Pictures is launched)

  • "Take a magical look through Alfreton's past" (Alfreton's Past in Poictures described as "absolutely fantastic")

  • "Hi-tech brings town's bygone sights" (Popular demand results in the launch of the second Alfreton title)

  • "Video fame for bygone Glossop" (Glossop's Past in Pictures is the next title to launch)

  • "A moving tribute" (The Glossop title receives a warm response)

  • "Meet the tallest man in the universe" (The word spreads about the variety of interest in the Past in Pictures titles)

  • "Video looks at Heanor's past" (The Heanor title, narrated by ex-Blue Peter presenter Simon Groom, launches)

  • "Town's past in the frame" (Interest builds for Ilkeston's Past in Pictures)

  • "Rewind to the 1880s!" (Ilkeston's Past in Pictures is launched at Erewash Museum)

  • "Video call for war memories" (The Derby Telegraph joins our appeal for contributions towards the Derby at War project)

  • "History in the making" (Filming starts on the Derby at War film)

  • "Film of wartime is given its premiere" (Derby at War is launched at a special showing at the Metro Cinema, Derby)

  • "That's my dad" (Our Derby at War title stunned an 83-year-old woman from New Zealand when she spotted footage of her father)

  • "Historian seeks identity of the 'mystery blonde' " (The Derby at War title through up more than one surprise finding!)

  • "A wartime first" (Derby at War is such a success, it earns it's own dedicated supplement in the Derby Telegraph)

  • "Why 30 million viewers in the U.S. can't be wrong" (One of our first ghost titles with Richard Felix - Derby, the Dead Centre of England - proves a bit hit both sides of the Atlantic)

  • "Ghost photo the best ever taken say experts" (Our ghost titles cause a stor in the paranormal world)

  • "Clough's story is DVD bestseller" (Our story of success from Christmas 2004)

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