Talk:American International Pictures

American International Pictures filmography
I will compile a complete AIP filmography for this article, using the filmographies which have been published in AIP co-founder Samuel Z. Arkoff's autobiography, 'Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants' (1992, Birch Lane Press), and the history of AIP by Mark Thomas McGee in 'Fast and Furious: The Story of American International Pictures' (1984, MacFarland) - additional research at IMDb as needed.

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 * Please do not delete talk page content in the future, particularly templates. Furthermore, the talk pages are for article discussion and tagging - they are not supposed to be used for draft versions. You can either continuously edit the page as new information is found (perfectly acceptable - articles are not expected to be perfect before FAC), or use your user pages for drafts. For the meantime, I am going to move your work to the link above. Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 02:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for moving it and not just deleting it, I kind of freaked out for a moment when I saw it was gone. I did not know that I deleted any talk page content however. What did I delete?

Mondo68 17:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Please source this trivia
Please source this trivia and re-add into the article. Thanks, Chaz Beckett 16:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Along with its original productions, AIP also released many foreign films (dubbed into English) in the US that other, larger studios were afraid to handle; these included Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman, starring then-wife Brigitte Bardot.
 * 1963's The Terror was largely improvised by the cast, during a weekend shoot after completing The Raven, which reused the same sets before they were taken down.
 * Roger Corman continues his work as the head of New World Pictures, which also has a long history of independent production and distribution of foreign-made movies.
 * The widow of Nicholson, Susan Hart, acquired all rights in 1994 to a number of the most successful 1950s AIP titles, including I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Invasion of the Saucermen.
 * The son and daughter of Arkoff attempted a short-lived revival of AIP as a producer of TV movies using the titles of some 1950s-era films produced by the studio, but different storylines from the earlier films. Examples of this include Cool and the Crazy (directed by Ralph Bakshi) and Shake, Rattle and Rock!
 * Not only does MGM own the AIP library, they (through MGM Records) once also distributed the releases of AIP's record label division, American International Records.

Single source
Whoever put the note responding to the single source in this article (which was left after several other edits), suggesting that no sources exist... If there aren't enough reliable third-party sources out there, that implies that this article lacks verifiability or even fails the notability requirement. So, either American Int'l Pictures is not notable, or we're not trying hard enough to find sources. Guess which I'd lean towards? :) --Midnightdreary (talk) 16:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

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Need knowledge of AIP expert
The caption for the AIP logo at the bottom of the article states: "Final AIP logo introduced in 1968. A later version of this logo does not bear the United States Capitol dome in the circle." [italics mine]. Obviously, these are contradictory statements; if later versions of the logo omit the capitol, then the 1968 logo is not the final version. Did someone mean to say several versions of the logo were introduced in the '60s, with the capitol logo being the final version? Anyone? Kinkyturnip (talk) 17:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the final use of the "Capital Dome in the circle" AIP logo was at the end of the film METEOR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.209.225.229 (talk) 16:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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