[…]was my first film. And then I did a film called Father’s Doing Fine (1952),[17] which was a comedy about families and that sort of thing, at Elstree, ABC.[18] And a very famous person as a director was also an actor: Richard Attenborough. He was in that, Brian Worth, Heather Stannard [Thatcher], all[…]
[…]t outside Paris. We were… it was a co-production between NBC and SFP. And that was what started it, and from then, anytime NBC made a series or ABC or CBS, they knew me in England so they asked me to produce. TD: How did you find working in Paris, with the French crew? AY: […]
[…] it an hour or two, he can go out, but the point was that you knew at a particular time, it was okay. And you should have the evidence. And people at ABC have virtually been fired on the spot for being found not to be doing the tracks or not doing properly or pretending that they're doing. And the B[…]
[…]the 50’s?EB: Yes. The O’Connor brothers, they had several cinemas in South London, and when they saw risk coming in they decided to sell out. I think ABC bought 1 or 2 of them, The Regal, Kennington, was one of them. I played there several times for them, did odd weeks. They went to South Africa, th[…]
[…]hances. That's why, before the war I thought films were photographically so dull, they were so dull, because it all came to - it was all the same old ABC and you know, if you don't take a risk you don't get any excitement.Alan Lawson: Er, talking actually, taking you up on that point, didn't yo[…]
[…] was a gap of restingwhen I found it difficult to get work, ‘49, that time. And I was away onholiday and I got a call from John Boulting to go to the ABC headquartersbecause they needed an editor for a film called These are my Daughters.When I got there, that film had been cancelled and the producer[…]
[…] eventually we only made two because of problems of having to get away from Spain with what material we'd got. We made two films. One called 'Spanish ABC' and the other 'Behind the Spanish Lines'. The set up was that Alan and Arthur were filming. Philip and Ray Pitt were editing and Thorold and I we[…]
[…]ies in America on the filmingUnknown Speaker  18:16  Jeremy Isaac was involved with it, then. No.Speaker 2  18:21  Other company, ABC. All right, you need to start withSpeaker 2  18:34  and then the underpants of this week stories that the alternate week, where you did […]
