[…]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[…]
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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[…]
[…]come a rag and stick merchant.Speaker 1 17:50 A lot, I think, in hindsight, a lot probably to do with my uncle. Was also a shareholder in ABC cinemas, I think it was and also in business with a herbert Yap, who built the original not Erwin, but Kensington. Now called the audience, whatev[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ause they were on 20 minute spools and a feature film would consist of up to five spools of film. However because the progress was so slow I left the ABC hereford and got a job at the Roxy in Roos on Whye where there was only a chief projectionist and me so changeovers were a thing I was very quickl[…]
