[…]cause at that time, because we 1 d parted in the war, he1 d been shipped somewhere else. And so I arranged to meet him and we met at Stratford in the ABC Tea Rooms, remember the ABC Tea Rooms Norman Swallow: They 1 re not there now Johnny Speight: No. The Aerated Bread Company wasn't it. Tea rooms, […]
[…]the 50’s?EB: Yes. The O’Connor brothers, they had several cinemas in South London, and when they saw risk coming in they decided to sell out. I think ABC bought 1 or 2 of them, The Regal, Kennington, was one of them. I played there several times for them, did odd weeks. They went to South Africa, th[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
