[…]y made my move to join the Commercial Cinema Industry. This wasn’t my first attempt as an earlier one in my final year at George Heriot’s to join the ABC Circuit had been stymied by my Headmaster refusing to sign off on any reference forms for me. In his view, as expressed forcefully at a meeting to[…]
[…] was based at W embley Studios which I believe became ABC Televi- sion I seem to remember after the War. […]
[…] ATV, as we were then known - originally we were ABC, became known as ATV - felt that it might […]
[…]iling cabinet. And I as a director kept thinking, "What can I do to make it spectacular?" Of course, what can you do? I was that time watching avidly ABC Theatre from Armchair Theatre which is full of imagination. Directors like Philip Saville and Silvio Narritsarno, and they were doing... Darr[…]
[…]that was a tremendous success and we made a lot of money. And ITC was at that time a separate entity. ATV, as we were then known - originally we were ABC, became known as ATV - felt that it might be a conflict of interests and we did a deal and they took it over. And then in 1962 Val was no longer m[…]
[…]alled it, was established. And the 1956 Olympic Games, we were gonna get coverage from Australia. Television in Australia had just begun, ABC television had just begun, and I was sent out…or I went out to Australia to get coverage from the Australian people. Now you have to remembe[…]
[…]CBS saying was I serious, would I like to go and work for them? Well, I then happened to run into my old friend, Roone Arledge, who was boss of ABC Sports in America and I told him, he said, “God, why didn’t you tell me?” I said, “I thought you were a BBC institution,” I said, “No.” He s[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Television Society, Executive Producer, Head of Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian Film Board. Intervi ewer […]
[…] keep the beginning and the end bits, keep number 1 and 7 and the rest can go. The only reason Hancock survived is that the BBC bought them back from ABC of Australia. That is the way they were able to show the Hancock tapes. The amount of stuff that got wiped. The whole social has been wiped and of[…]
