[…]nt. Yes. Then later on I went to see Robert Clark and did a deal with ABC and. Yes. So what was the next one out on on the list after that a[…]
[…] pretty stretched up in the box but having started off with a fantastic chief projectionist who had been pirated from the big cinema in Worthing, the ABC, er Plaza, and I know that he got £4 a week at the Plaza and was pirated away for four pounds ten to open The Luxor, Lancing.Now he was a most gha[…]
[…] lived for ballet. And that was her life, forever, all the way through. And then Tony also had a brother called Pat, pat Kelly. And he worked down at ABC in Boreham wood on various shows. Probably. I don't know what the shows were. I wasn't Danger, man. But there was I can't remember the names. But […]
[…]at that time, we needed to be very selective about what we acquired, so that we collected the right things on a priority basis. He even had a sort of ABC system of acquisition. It never worked in practice, partly because we were too maverick to reject offers of films and56film collections: there was[…]
[…] Leicester Square.MF: But he was instrumental in the sale of the Shipman & King cinemas which was a very nice group of independent cinemas to the ABC circuit. I'm not sure, Brian, did he retain the lease of the three situations? At Tonbridge?INT No. I at the time was working for the Danizigers b[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]Western with Brigitte Bardot  didn't do too badly. But the Virgin's extremely well. But there's a very complex arrangement of negative rights in America that went bust because they sell the rights to a man called DuPont who was a millionaire whose son turned out to be a bit of a crook However, […]
[…]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, […]
[…]       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[…]
[…]t to the Regal, up above. And he didn't last very long because he was sacked out of hand because he knows it was union cinemas owned by union cinemas ABC hadn't taken over in which they did when I was there. And then we will take them into the office one at a time and threatened if we didn't drop ou[…]