[…]ked about it early on with people at The BFI and I think David Sharpe quite early on joined the group and again was a very useful contributor and contact. Mm, we took our time actually getting established. We discussed things, we had, as I say, committees that met regularly and pondered how to proce[…]
[…]th the rexine covering all that sort of thing. Quite, quite extensive that way.Speaker 2  22:39  Yes, I seem to remember they had a bill of Act. Travel organizing,Speaker 1  22:47  a bloke named Burley, he wanted to all the rates of pay wasn't, wasn't anywhere compared, although […]
[…]p;       Yes, just a bit earlier than that I had been round. Now I don’t how Elvin was the ? in the main at ACT. I remember a couple of chaps coming down to the studio and they went round talking to the Sound Camera Operators and the Boom Operators and[…]
[…]bsp;too old farts in the night with me and Willie Rushton. Yeah, the title was Willie's idea. He said, we can't get done under the trade descriptions act. So an accurate description. Yeah, well, he and I have met and worked together and been around and then things got a bit quiet. And Willie immedia[…]
[…] any television. You just went around theUnknown Speaker  36:01  circuit. And they were very fortunate in those days that they got one good act. I mean, they could keep that act and do it for you. They wouldn't come back to Coventry, or whichever Empire after it was for one or two years on[…]
[…] it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good after all that, that was my own and only SEFTA, which I got from Lord Louis, so I'm quite proud of that fact. I can remember, it was the days when we, the same year was Verity Lambert for Somerset Maugham, and Richard Cawston I remember, getting one. But […]
[…]irector, even on that sort of thing.AL: Can we come back to ACT, now?Sidney Cole: Well, Kay said she couldn't remember quite when she got involved in ACT. But you were rather important in the ACTT as far as I remember. First of all you were one of the earliest, if not the first, woman on the General[…]
[…] really looked quite impressive and jokingly I said to Houston one night demand I said John what a great Still this would make a friendly act. And he said sure assistant ditector Adrian Price Johns? Where's Elliot so he said Well I. I think he's in. A hotel in bed asleep John after all i[…]
Pamela Mann Francis Side 1Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Pamela Mann, later to become Pamela Mann Francis, feature film continuity; interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the sixth of January 1994 side one, the original st[…]
[…] involved. And we had our own little strike, I’m trying to think whatit was about. [Pause] But I still wish it was called the ACTT or the old one the ACT.Why not ACT? [Laughter]ACT, yes.Queenie Turner DRAFT Tape 1 Side B41Queenie Turner DRAFT Tape 1 Side BI’ve still got my husband’s little badge, yo[…]
