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ABC Cinemas (Associated British Cinemas) was a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), it operated between the 1920s and the 1980s. The brand name was reused in the 1990s until 2000.
Associated British Cinemas. 1927 Established by solicitor John Maxwell by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Pictures Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926.
In November 1928 he registered Associated British Cinemas (ABC) as a public company. 1929 ABC had a circuit of 80 cinemas. By the end of 1931 there 160 cinemas in the chain. 1933 ABC, BIP, and Wardour Films were consolidated into a single company, the Associated British Picture Corporation.
May 12, 2020 · To this end, Associated British Cinemas was established in 1928 as a subsidiary of BIP. ABC initially swallowed up three smaller circuits, Scottish Cinema and Variety Theatres Ltd, Savoy Cinemas, and the Favourite Cinemas group.
Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964—and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards—enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy ...
The 1909 Cinematograph Act, under which cinemas became licensed, created a boom in the building of purpose-built cinemas. Combined with increased investment in brick-and-mortar production, the cinema business began to evolve.
ABPC was built up during the 1930s by the Glaswegian solicitor John Maxwell. His original aim was not just to make films to show in his cinemas, but to provide employment for skilled film technicians and manual workers.
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