[…]s what everybody did - even in the labour exchanges people were saying what I really want to do is direct - in job centres - so er - I found out that ABC Teddington were looking for - er - trainee directors - and I went along there to one of their boards like Brian Tesler and - I can’t remember the […]
[…]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[…]
[…]led Wardour Films and they had actually an office in Wardour Street. And they were responsible for booking the things for all the cinemas outside the ABC circuit. And Robert Clark, who was also a Scottish lawyer, was in charge of all the sort of Wardour Films and anything outside the studios. And he[…]
[…]nd, indeed, he was one of the very greatest lighting cameramen.Vernon Sewell: Yeah. He moved to me and he went to British National, then went to ABC and they broke his heart. He rang me up and said, "Vernon, I'm so unhappy here, I'm so unhappy, they're crucifying me," and he died.Roy Fowler:&nb[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] excellence. In fact there's a saying, which I think must have been made up by Evelyn king but it was that Ashburton, Bedales and Clayesmore were the ABC of education. Now I take that with a very large pinch of salt.But we all wore shirts, open neck shirts and shorts and sandals in the summer all ye[…]
[…]come a rag and stick merchant.Speaker 1  17:50  A lot, I think, in hindsight, a lot probably to do with my uncle. Was also a shareholder in ABC cinemas, I think it was and also in business with a herbert Yap, who built the original not Erwin, but Kensington. Now called the audience, whatev[…]
[…]last night.Lord Brabourne  18:24  And levels of a successful film he did and put on for fortnight in the new theatre at Salisbury after the ABC It was never thrilled with it was a theatre and then they agreed to book it for two weeks and ran for six months. It was a huge remember enormous […]
[…]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[…]
[…]d, and then we made Robin Hood for Disney, and I don't know, then we moved to Pinewood, and we made Another Disney picture there, and then I moved to ABC with Disney, I became a freelance and I worked on what was the picture we made? Made a picture at ABC. It was ABC, then the studios Rodney Gi[…]
