[…]hat's really what started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the Nottingham Playhouse for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Direc[…]
[…]sp;DARROL BLAKE: AR? NEVILLE WORTMAN:  It wasn’t AR, it was ATV to start with, because I think ATV was the first but it was known as ABC in those days until some problem because of ABC Pictures being in it. And so, I walked into Kingsway House, past the desk, up onto the secon[…]
[…]iling cabinet. And I as a director kept thinking, "What can I do to make it spectacular?" Of course, what can you do? I was that time watching avidly ABC Theatre from Armchair Theatre which is full of imagination. Directors like Philip Saville and Silvio Narritsarno, and they were doing... Darr[…]
[…] - 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[…]
[…]n 1:47I formed a partnership with them Lynn Williams. And we were going to make some movies together. And it never came off the ground with the ABC asked us name and we'd formed a partnership. Maybe we could make some pictures with them. And it one way or another. I've lost a year of my life t[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]as shown with World transport. Was shown in the civil house.Speaker 1  17:14  Reservoir was made by patty and shown in nearly beasts in the ABC circuit. One day I sitting in my office with a man called fancy. Fancy, not EJ fancy, but his brother walked in and said he'd heard about our film[…]
[…]48  in 1952Unknown Speaker  30:49  They shut.Unknown Speaker  30:54  I then went toUnknown Speaker  30:58  over at ABC and the AustrianUnknown Speaker  31:03  andUnknown Speaker  31:06  they were just starting to change fromUnknown Speaker […]
[…] pretty stretched up in the box but having started off with a fantastic chief projectionist who had been pirated from the big cinema in Worthing, the ABC, er Plaza, and I know that he got £4 a week at the Plaza and was pirated away for four pounds ten to open The Luxor, Lancing.Now he was a most gha[…]
