[…]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 […]
[…]ked by the cinema circuit, the films showing were the current release films at that time, and I was very proud of that. And when Odeon acquired ABC I was interested to note that all the Odeon cinemas on the holiday centres were changed to ABC’s, not Odeon’s. And to this day ABC Cinemas s[…]
[…]nd, indeed, he was one of the very greatest lighting cameramen.Vernon Sewell: Yeah. He moved to me and he went to British National, then went to ABC and they broke his heart. He rang me up and said, "Vernon, I'm so unhappy here, I'm so unhappy, they're crucifying me," and he died.Roy Fowler:&nb[…]
[…] pretty stretched up in the box but having started off with a fantastic chief projectionist who had been pirated from the big cinema in Worthing, the ABC, er Plaza, and I know that he got £4 a week at the Plaza and was pirated away for four pounds ten to open The Luxor, Lancing.Now he was a most gha[…]
[…]ke me into Bury St Edmunds, from where we lived. He took me there. I hitchhiked from Bury St Edmunds down to the East End of London and went into the ABC Leighton stone, where the District Engineer was turned up at his office and said, I want a job. And he said, Well, you know what? What experience […]
[…]rtment or something. And I remember being somewhere in King Street, where we met and birth you in the chief of the Capitol run them and then when the ABC opened the Regal opened in the ship row. Then Charles Crawford, the chief there, ran it and he was keen on me being so interested and asked if I w[…]
