[…] Then in 1928 he heard that British International Pictures ( BIP) at Elstree were getting fitted out with the latest […]
[…]p in the south, taking over cinemas and what have you. At the same time they decided that they would operate together with what was known then as the BIP Studios in Elstree, which is the old BIP Studios that you know down the road, because it eventually became the ABC and all that sort of thing. So […]
[…]big place that got bigger and bigger. They kept on adding things to it.Sidney Cole: Oh.Carmen Dillon: I can't remember.Sidney Cole: It must have been BIP.Carmen Dillon: BIP, it must be, yes that's right.Sidney Cole: Yes, that was the original studio out there.Carmen Dillon: And then that grew and gr[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 250 [Copyright BECTU ] Transcription Date: 1999-01-30Interview Date: 1992-03-03 Interviewer: Arnold SchwartzmanInterviewee: Charles Bennett Also present was Charles Bennett's business partner Stuart Birnbaum. Tape 1, Side 1Arnold Sc[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 246 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 1998-12-01Interview Date: 1992-03-06Interviewer: Alan Lawson, with Geoff ParryInterviewee: Peter BirchTape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson : Right well, first and foremost, when and where you born?Peter Birch : I was born[…]
[…]ay that I went into Elstree Studios. I was told to go to the camera department, Roy Fowler  30:41  Excuse me, these were the BIP studios? Ronald Neame  30:43   These were  BIP. Roy Fowler  30:44  Which were the[…]
[…]ng up cuts, but they wouldn’t tell me a bloody thing at first.SC : After WembleyCC: We moved to Boreham Wood, B&D. But they did make a picture at BIP once too. They were only making quota quickies at that period.SC: I can’t remember the one you did at Wembley but it was the beginning of those yo[…]