BEHP  0:00  We're in the theatre five at Pinewood at the date is the 25th, Tuesday the 25th of October 1988. And we're going to go through the basic questionairre first, and then hopefully, if we don't get out all the bits and pieces we want from the, we'll go over to the more specialised […]
[…]it? [both chuckle] So any other particular memories of film-going in the First World War?Eddie Dryhurst: No. I used to go quite a lot, every week in fact. Sometimes I would try and get in for nothing if I was short of money. Of course a lot of the time I was taken on as a pianist, in times of illnes[…]
[…]ry school and one for languages, Greek and Latin are essential subjects there but I did for a literary life, I always wanted to write as a matter of fact. When I left school I did submit articles to local papers, some of which were accepted, some of which were not.Roy Fowler: What sort of subje[…]
[…]en dead set against allowing electronic balloting and those now review going on which they were forced into by the House of Lords and the Trade Union Act. And they're even more dead set against workplace balloting. And you you will know and recall that workplace balance have a much better turnout, t[…]
[…]rgan. And I couldn't take my eyes off. When he was just standing in a line with all the others. He wasn't the comedian. There was a little guy in the act. That was funny man, right? But I couldn't take my eyes off this fellow at the end and  after the show. Now remember I've ever told you […]
[…] Smedley-Aston: Well we've left Elstree now and...Roy Fowler: Well we haven't quite. One final thing we haven't touched on - the arrival of ACT. You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't claim that, oh no.Roy Fowler: Oh I t[…]
[…]of the ACT, he actually formed the BFPA for them, he organised it, so that we could have someone to negotiate with. So the BFPA is really made by the ACT.Another story I think ought to be told is the story of the first television series, Robin Hood. It came about at the time of the McCarthyite inves[…]
[…]ourse, by then I mean Korda was over here by then.Teddy Darvas: By this time, Korda was famous.John Legard: Been here for several years in fact.Teddy Darvas: He came in 1932 I think and I don't know whether one should tell. When I got into the cutting rooms I became friends with Lew T[…]
[…]re re-shooting and, and, and changing the script all the time you see. So that film was my first film.Who...?And that’s when I became a member of the ACT.Right. Tell us about being recruited into the ACT?Oh well Tony did that, Toni Rowe came to me, we had coffee and she said ‘Listen, they're startin[…]
[…]e having as much as 20 pounds paid to them to clear their own personal debts and monetary worries apropos outside of any union fund contribution from ACT. We were organising factory gate meetings at the factories in the area around the within a five mile radius of the Technicolour plant, and indeed,[…]
