Martin Smith

Left school 1954/5. Photographer in Slough, ABC, Majestic, Empire, Staines. Rewind boy, Majestic, Don Brown, Join up reels, Suez crisis 1956, Hungary, Demonstration anti-Suez, NATKE, Union activity, 1…

Paul Wilson

…"Somewhere to Live", Kokachrome, Humphrey Jennings.Permanent Staff, Ealing,ABC,MGM, Pinewood, Denham, Shepperton, "Frenzy" Alfred Hitchcock,. Charles Chaplin, "Countess of Hongkong", "Superm…

Jack Amos

A drop out. ABC Croydon, 1200 seats, Rewind and cleaning floors. £3 seven shillings and sixpence per week.

Stanley A Long

…75, "Adventure of a Taxi driver" Bob Webster, Susan Mercer.  Film Circuits ABC & Ranks Alpha Films, Barry Evans, Bob Lindsay, Judy Geeson, Stephen Lewis. 1977 Screen International Comedy "Pri…

Bernard Tonks

…ames], a double ‘A’ (AA) house. He worked for eleven years at the Regal, on the ABC circuit [Associated British Cinemas] where Warner Brothers Natural (3-D) Vision was introduced. Bernard moved t…

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

…o producing mini-series The Bunker for NBC in Paris. Then when NBC or ABC wanted productions in the UK she worked for them. She talks about working with Otto Heller and Alan Hume.She talks a…

Frederick Bentham

…Abbey; E8; Rediffusion Wembley; Remote control; BBC Lighting in studios; Mclean ABC electrical. Jxxx Trumb Wood; All electric thyristors; Thorns; Appleby; 1968 Rank Organisation Theatre Lighting …

Sydney Newman

… Come Home (1966) and The Forsyte Saga (1967).He was the head of ABC (Associated British Corporation) Drama (1958 - 1962) and the head of BBC Drama (1962 - 1967).While at the BBC, he re…

A W (Nick) Nicholls

Worked with Caryl Reise director on a minind documentary. Then ABC (Australia)as UK location manager