[…] can’t remember whether it was the big studio or a small studio, you know they had two or three up there. It wasn’t MGM and I don’t think even it was ABPC but oneof the studios up there..Q But he wasn’t working as a singer then was he?A Oh no, he was a pimply faced boy of seventeen. I mean, not[…]
[…]ure I'd have a copy. I got sent by Warwick Ward tobe taken on by Lean and I was just taken on by word of mouth. He cutme down £10 which is typical of ABPC. We'll talk about the money later,but he cut me down. And I stayed there was 18 years with nothing.When lTV started in the ‘50s everyone was aske[…]
[…] GLYNNE: Oh, yes, yes. Dial 999 was at Elstree for ABPC , yes. It had Robert Beatty as the lead. […]
[…] of eleven companies owned by Associated British Picture Corporation and ABPC, as you may not have known was 38% owne […]
[…]AKE: Man of the World - ’62. But Dial 999 was before that. RENÉE GLYNNE: Oh, yes, yes. Dial 999 was at Elstree for ABPC, yes. It had Robert Beatty as the lead. It was middle of the road stuff.DARROL BLAKE: But still a very fast turn round. Compared to what you were[…]
[…]ed British Corporation, a television production company and cinema chain for which the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). ABPC owned the Associated British Elstree Studios in Borehamwood where Father’s Doing Fine was filmed.[19] Richard Attenborough (b.1923) is an […]
[…]ied 18 months later and was the nicest man, but wouldn’t play the game, if you know what I mean? And soon after that there was a huge meeting over at ABPC, err, with all the MGM people and ABPC people, where the Americans said ‘MGM will never close, never!’ and 6 months later it closed. So, err, tha[…]
