The photo below shows a typical small 35mm container used for shipping trailers and the Kenya Newsreel by Kenya Film Corporation and Anglo American Film Distributors during the 1970s/1980s by Akamba Bus Services Ltd!!
These items were usually sent with the main feature in a larger container. However infrequently the small container was used to just send trailers and the Kenya Newsreel
The typical English film had 5 reels (5 x 20min). The typical Indian film had 8 reels (8 x 20min)!!
At the Regal, shipping and receiving was handled by the Advance Ticket Book Keeper Hassan who you may remember as the staff member who always wore a beret! He would bike to the Akamba Bus depot and back!!
At the time we never realized this but in hindsight I would have to say the movie distributors (AAFD & government owned KFC) and Akamba Bus, all Kenyan companies, were highly efficient and organized! We never had a case where the containers were lost, delayed or shipped to the wrong town or cinema!!
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