[…]ke less money and we’ll do it on the BBC. And, no, they wouldn’t.MIKE DICK: Why was that then?PETE MURRAY: They got more money from ABC. Now the point was ….MIKE DICK: Sorry, what I meant Pete was why did you want to do it on the BBC?PETE MURRAY: I will tell you w[…]
[…]the bars were on WPIX or WOR or whatever.Rodney Giesler:They were all independent stations?Roy Fowler:Yes right. But the two network stations because ABC didn't count in those days it was NBC and CBS, administered by intelligent educated people William Paley for example I get, when you look at Willi[…]
[…]'s I mean, I will. It was odd. I mean, first of all, the whole time that I was living in Salisbury, there were three cinemas there in those days, the ABC, the Regal and the Gaumont. And it was during a period, when you had some really amazing British films being made. There's Powell and Pressburger […]
[…]ot fired because of you!" So that was another story. Anyway as I say, we all went off to the different places, so - all the - Universal and that. And ABC Cinemas at the time were just beginning, a fellow by the name of John Maxwell, I think you may have heard of him, from Scotland. He'd got The Rega[…]
[…]ley. We used to have - and it shows you how poverty stricken we were - that we used to have our lunch, a currant bun and a glass of iced water at the ABC, which we had...Roy Fowler: Which ABC was that?Joan Kemp-Welch: The one opposite the Arts Theatre now, which I think is Cranks orsomethi[…]
[…]udget was £5.00. If you were doing Manchester, Liverpool, the big cities, you actually had £25.00 and most of the films, of course, were shown by the ABC circuit, who were terribly mean - it was the Scottish accountant's thing and a man called Prior was the Head of Publicity and everything. And what[…]
[…]bsp;heard for example that Bobby Kennedy had been shot I went straight round to ABC because I phoned a contact and they had said that they thought ABC had […]
[…]as shown with World transport. Was shown in the civil house.Speaker 1 17:14 Reservoir was made by patty and shown in nearly beasts in the ABC circuit. One day I sitting in my office with a man called fancy. Fancy, not EJ fancy, but his brother walked in and said he'd heard about our film[…]
[…] Yes.Q At Elstree. Now that was not what became ABC?A No. ABC was BIP (British International Pictures), they were on one side. And t[…]
