[…]ke me into Bury St Edmunds, from where we lived. He took me there. I hitchhiked from Bury St Edmunds down to the East End of London and went into the ABC Leighton stone, where the District Engineer was turned up at his office and said, I want a job. And he said, Well, you know what? What experience […]
[…]ng the kinds of audience they wanted to reach so, you know, if you advertise in this programme and that programme and this programme, you'll get your ABC ones and, you know, all of the rest of it. It became a, you know, quite fragmented and quite a difficult environment for most of the Companies and[…]
[…]n below for the victualling, and the food was pretty bloody grim. So er...Anyway, we decided upstairs, and there was John Rudkin, um NBC, CBS, and er ABC, myself, in a flat. We were all sharing this lovely, lovely er flat. It was all satin-lined. The bed was all satin-lined, like this...I've got pic[…]
[…] to keep the studio together. But there was a time when I had enough. That's when the television companies, Tyne Tees first, Yorkshire and one other, ABC came along and they proposed to buyout the studio. They did, and in 1968, the sticky years, they bought Halas and Batchelor and they continued it […]
[…]had taken over her husband's job and it's still being run. Indeed, my daughter Eva is a client of Maggie Parker. And I was sent to the old ABC Studios at Welwyn Garden City for a part in a West of England comedy called A Farmer's Wife. Here's a bit of film history for you now. And it was […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
