Associated British Picture Corporation

...shareholder in the London-based ITV broadcaster Thames Television. This shareholding was inherited from the 1967 purchase of the Associated British Picture Corporation by EMI. The deal included their interests in the ITV company ABC...

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...re-modelled were usually operated as separate circuits. In 1937, the parent company, BIP was renamed Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). After his death in 1940, his widow Catherine sold a large number of shares to Warner Brothers,...

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...Film Corporation (see below) with BIP retaining the remaining stages. BIP were absorbed into the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) in the early 1930s. During WWII the studios were used by the War Office for storage. In 1946...

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...Webb in Laughter in Paradise (1951). The film featured Alistair Sim, Fay Compton, and Guy Middleton. She was then contracted to the Associated British Picture Corporation for seven years. In 1952 she appeared in the critically acclaimed...

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...television which was taking away their cinema audiences. In this case, the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), which initially did not wish to become involved with the new broadcasting system, but were...

In this article: Thames Television, London, and Birmingham

Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970. ABPC also owned approximately 500 cinemas in...

In this article: Subsidiary, Rediffusion Television, Seven Arts, Talkback Thames, Thames Television, Warner Brothers, and EMI Films

...his operation at the studio from 1927 to 1933. At that time, he changed the company name to the Associated British Picture Corporation. ABPC used the studio for many years, principally as a production centre for its television arm,...

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...at Radley College and the University of London and became a solicitor, specialising in international law. He was deputy chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation. Fletcher was elected onto the London County Council for...

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...that television was eating into the audiences for cinema . Frustrated at his inability to convince the Associated British Picture Corporation that it should either expand into production of popular feature films or bid for one of the new...

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...into the company. Apart from that, EMI also purchased Warner Bros-Seven Arts investment in ABPC. The studios that formerly belonged to ABPC were replaced by EMI-Elstree. Instead of continuing their production programme at Borehamwood, MGM...

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