[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] currant bun and a glass of iced water at the ABC, which we had... Roy Fowler: Which ABC was that? […]
[…]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[…]
[…] they were beautiful. Absolutely burnished copper. The projection staff of ABC's had looked after them beautifully. I couldn't find anything […]
[…] later’). It is no accident that in the ‘film fashion ABC’ she drew up for a newspaper article in 1956, […]
[…]" So we took parts of the motors down to have a look at the commutators and they were beautiful. Absolutely burnished copper. The projection staff of ABC's had looked after them beautifully. I couldn't find anything wrong on either of them. With one set running there was enough power to run three ar[…]
