[…] had the resources and we didn't, ATV was fairly shaky, ABC weren't because they the whole of the cinema chain […]
[…]nts to ditch his Astrakhan Cola, he wants to ditch the stone me and the punch up the bracket. So his his last series for BBC is called last series of ABC is called Hancock. And people have often said well, he's never as good since he since said left, well, what's your favourite with a blood donor wh[…]
[…]was really magic. And then what did I do? I can’t remember, oh I started doing commercials, that’s right, everybody, all the blokes, that had been at ABC as it was then which is now Thames, which doesn’t exist anymore does it? Thames Television? anyway, my husband worked there so I knew all th[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] - I can't remember when that was - Ivor's company was Progressive Film Institute, I suppose he'd handled them himself, those ones - you know Spanish ABC and...Charles Cooper: Ah hmm, yes he probably did, yes.Sidney Cole: Yeah, I don't think you handled those, yeah. Of course now, your cinema ventur[…]