Philip Donnellan

[…] excellence. In fact there's a saying, which I think must have been made up by Evelyn king but it was that Ashburton, Bedales and Clayesmore were the ABC of education. Now I take that with a very large pinch of salt.But we all wore shirts, open neck shirts and shorts and sandals in the summer all ye[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]n  1:47I formed a partnership with them Lynn Williams. And we were going to make some movies together. And it never came off the ground with the ABC asked us name and we'd formed a partnership. Maybe we could make some pictures with them. And it one way or another. I've lost a year of my life t[…]

Karel Reisz

[…]p;a kind of Pinewood rut and it was absolutely ready for somebody to just prick the balloon of ABC and Rank. And these films were really the forerunners of the social films that followed, in fact[…]

Sam Williams

[…] I got metal poisoning. Well, of course nowadays, such as the activities of our association that dermatitis the thing that we all know like  our ABC and indeed the laboratories of providing equipment to take care of it. Even to decontamination centres, a lot of solutions and chemicals which wil[…]

John Halas

[…] to keep the studio together. But there was a time when I had enough. That's when the television companies, Tyne Tees first, Yorkshire and one other, ABC came along and they proposed to buyout the studio. They did, and in 1968, the sticky years, they bought Halas and Batchelor and they continued it […]

Kenneth Griffith

[…]had taken over her husband's job and it's still being run.  Indeed, my daughter Eva is a client of Maggie Parker. And I was sent to the old ABC Studios at Welwyn Garden City for a part in a West of England comedy called A Farmer's Wife. Here's a bit of film history for you now. And it was […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] keep the beginning and the end bits, keep number 1 and 7 and the rest can go. The only reason Hancock survived is that the BBC bought them back from ABC of Australia. That is the way they were able to show the Hancock tapes. The amount of stuff that got wiped. The whole social has been wiped and of[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]sp;was that televised. They didn't turn up. They were going to the night before ABC News. They had given me the names of the crew and we waited around. We&[…]
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