Denis Forman

[…]ks it was difficult to buy space it was quite incredible. It was aclose run thing. Rediffusion had the resources and we didn't, ATV was fairly shaky, ABC weren'tbecause they the whole of the cinema chain behind them. It was quite a relief when the moneystarted to come in.Taylor/Peet: What were the m[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]t master because I didn't know what they were going to make you see. And as happy go loudly, was a master hammer production financed party. Partly by ABC and also Warners. As you know, Warners and abbc had a sort of relation, close relationship. So eventually, later on, I thought, Well, why not as l[…]

Jack Rockett

[…]ockett: Maybe, maybe, yes.Sidney Cole: I mean people would go and see what - did you run Gracie Fields pictures?Jack Rockett: No, they mostly went to ABC.Sidney Cole: Oh. ABC they were, weren't they.Jack Rockett: I'll tell you the other one - the dancing people that took a lot of money.Roy Fowler: F[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]record the list of the people that...Philip Leacock: Yes surely.Stephen Peet: Because there were two...I understand that two films were made, Spanish ABC and Behind the Spanish Lines. There's a kind of crediting in the history books that they were supervised by Ivor Montagu for the Progressive Film […]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…] was a gap of restingwhen I found it difficult to get work, ‘49, that time. And I was away onholiday and I got a call from John Boulting to go to the ABC headquartersbecause they needed an editor for a film called These are my Daughters.When I got there, that film had been cancelled and the producer[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…]was really magic. And then what did I do? I can’t remember, oh I started doing commercials, that’s right, everybody, all the blokes, that had been at ABC as it was then which is now Thames, which doesn’t exist anymore does it?  Thames Television? anyway, my husband worked there so I knew all th[…]
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