[…]y made my move to join the Commercial Cinema Industry. This wasn’t my first attempt as an earlier one in my final year at George Heriot’s to join the ABC Circuit had been stymied by my Headmaster refusing to sign off on any reference forms for me. In his view, as expressed forcefully at a meeting to[…]
[…] Television Society, Executive Producer, Head of Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian Film Board. Intervi ewer […]
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[…]alled it, was established. And the 1956 Olympic Games, we were gonna get coverage from Australia. Television in Australia had just begun, ABC television had just begun, and I was sent out…or I went out to Australia to get coverage from the Australian people. Now you have to remembe[…]
[…]CBS saying was I serious, would I like to go and work for them? Well, I then happened to run into my old friend, Roone Arledge, who was boss of ABC Sports in America and I told him, he said, “God, why didn’t you tell me?” I said, “I thought you were a BBC institution,” I said, “No.” He s[…]
[…]sp;DARROL BLAKE: AR? NEVILLE WORTMAN: It wasn’t AR, it was ATV to start with, because I think ATV was the first but it was known as ABC in those days until some problem because of ABC Pictures being in it. And so, I walked into Kingsway House, past the desk, up onto the secon[…]
[…]cer or something. Oh, it was awful. I was so unhappy, wasn’t I John?JPH: Yeah, well, it was the strangulated situation of the forced marriage between ABC and Rediffusion of course, and they were nearly all ABC people at Teddington and didn’t want to know about the Rediffusion people who’d cause[…]
[…]s what everybody did - even in the labour exchanges people were saying what I really want to do is direct - in job centres - so er - I found out that ABC Teddington were looking for - er - trainee directors - and I went along there to one of their boards like Brian Tesler and - I can’t remember the […]
[…] Leicester Square.MF: But he was instrumental in the sale of the Shipman & King cinemas which was a very nice group of independent cinemas to the ABC circuit. I'm not sure, Brian, did he retain the lease of the three situations? At Tonbridge?INT No. I at the time was working for the Danizigers b[…]
