[…]alled it, was established. And the 1956 Olympic Games, we were gonna get coverage from Australia. Television in Australia had just begun, ABC television had just begun, and I was sent out…or I went out to Australia to get coverage from the Australian people. Now you have to remembe[…]
[…] excellence. In fact there's a saying, which I think must have been made up by Evelyn king but it was that Ashburton, Bedales and Clayesmore were the ABC of education. Now I take that with a very large pinch of salt.But we all wore shirts, open neck shirts and shorts and sandals in the summer all ye[…]
[…]CBS saying was I serious, would I like to go and work for them? Well, I then happened to run into my old friend, Roone Arledge, who was boss of ABC Sports in America and I told him, he said, “God, why didn’t you tell me?” I said, “I thought you were a BBC institution,” I said, “No.” He s[…]
[…]cer or something. Oh, it was awful. I was so unhappy, wasn’t I John?JPH: Yeah, well, it was the strangulated situation of the forced marriage between ABC and Rediffusion of course, and they were nearly all ABC people at Teddington and didn’t want to know about the Rediffusion people who’d cause[…]
[…] keep the beginning and the end bits, keep number 1 and 7 and the rest can go. The only reason Hancock survived is that the BBC bought them back from ABC of Australia. That is the way they were able to show the Hancock tapes. The amount of stuff that got wiped. The whole social has been wiped and of[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]" 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[…]
[…]the bars were on WPIX or WOR or whatever.Rodney Giesler:They were all independent stations?Roy Fowler:Yes right. But the two network stations because ABC didn't count in those days it was NBC and CBS, administered by intelligent educated people William Paley for example I get, when you look at Willi[…]
[…]bsp;heard for example that Bobby Kennedy had been shot I went straight round to ABC because I phoned a contact and they had said that they thought ABC had […]
