[…] Gracie Fields pictures? Jack Rockett: No, they mostly went to ABC. Sidney Cole: Oh. ABC they were, weren't they. Jack […]
[…]and a second unitAlan Lawson: That was for exteriorsMonty Berman: And pick up shotsAt this Alan Lawson: What studios were you using thenMonty Berman: ABC, ElstreeAlan Lawson: What about facilities there.16Monty Berman: What do you mean by facilitiesAlan Lawson: Was it a good studio to work inMonty B[…]
[…]last night.Lord Brabourne 18:24 And levels of a successful film he did and put on for fortnight in the new theatre at Salisbury after the ABC It was never thrilled with it was a theatre and then they agreed to book it for two weeks and ran for six months. It was a huge remember enormous […]
[…]udget was £5.00. If you were doing Manchester, Liverpool, the big cities, you actually had £25.00 and most of the films, of course, were shown by the ABC circuit, who were terribly mean - it was the Scottish accountant's thing and a man called Prior was the Head of Publicity and everything. And what[…]
[…]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 in the film unit first of all then tele-recording on Film and then Ampex Video Recorders appeared and the Ampex machines were very scarce then so ABC and ATV joined forces to form Alpha London. It was a joint company between ATV and ABC and so we had about six Ampex machines and no one had actua[…]