Sandy Ross

[…]ng the kinds of audience they wanted to reach so, you know, if you advertise in this programme and that programme and this programme, you'll get your ABC ones and, you know, all of the rest of it. It became a, you know, quite fragmented and quite a difficult environment for most of the Companies and[…]

Rebecca O\'Brien

[…]. I took my mum to see Clockwork Orange, and I took my mum with my mum. I went with my mum to see Kess when I was 13, and I remember seeing it at the ABC in Edinburgh and being completely knocked out by it. I knew her. I knew who Ken was before. You know, when I was 13, I knew exactly who Ken was an[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]at that time, we needed to be very selective about what we acquired, so that we collected the right things on a priority basis. He even had a sort of ABC system of acquisition. It never worked in practice, partly because we were too maverick to reject offers of films and56film collections: there was[…]

Michael Bond

[…]those days it was Rock Roll is rather strange because they are a part of a big organization. You moved around as a unit to divorced and away from the ABC and I think the BBC in those days was a marvelous organization. I think it uh it's I think it's lost something in recent years but real change is […]

Cy Young

[…]relationship with Pathe . They didn't show you any old film they had if they had it in their vaults and then they came up in conversation they had an ABC television show. Called Big Night Out which is a variety show lots of turns in it you know famous actors and then. They never looked at it . And t[…]

Barry Quinton

[…]ars. I mean Southall was well known, Wembley was another one, there was one also at Edgeware and I think there is still one today at what was the old ABC Harrow, there's still an Indian company that runs it but I do think they show general release films as well as their own product.

Bob Jordan

[…]. He joined it when [it was] the time the Hungarian revolution and he left the country. But because his uncle was company secretary of ABC Pictures he got the prime jobs and I was just left … sweeping the floor most of the time. Learning how to repair cameras which stood me in gr[…]

Bob Narduzzo

[…]films; as a child he used to play 9.5mm films borrowed from a local film library; his interest started when he was twelve; the local cinemas were the ABC, Gaumont and Odeon and BN would see every programme each week; he recalls seeing Metropolis on 9.5mm from the library at Burnt Oak (three 100ft re[…]

Ron Moody

[…]no cow. Anyway, he didn't. He went back to his original trade of plastering, and he eventually became the master plaster of the head of department at ABC Studios. Joyce Robinson  3:41  Tell me, about being Jewish and about being a marginal man, as you call it. Ron Moody[…]
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