[…] tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Film Department. My very first boss was Anne Fleming (BEHP Interview No 0698) Say no […]
[…]ry for Rank, that’s right and so they tried everything out there. They really made some terrible films. TD: Can I just ask about the ACTT? Did you become a member? AY: Oh yes, of course. TD: Did you have any difficulty getting in? AY: No, not at all […]
[…]ng about your works in Union?Nick Ardizzone 11:32 Even before I became a member, I was very impressed by the power and the good work that ACTT did. Yes, there were aspects of it, I thoroughly despised as I think most of us did, that there were elements of corruption, and high hand in dea[…]
[…] was really going through quite a depression at that time, there was this vicious circle where you couldn't get a job unless you were a member of the ACTT and you couldn't be a member unless you had a job and so it went on so, people were quite kind but really there was nothing doing so television w[…]
[…]n't got to chronologically as far as Joe was concerned. And it was only thereafter, not because of the equity strike. But during the same period that actt started to organise properly in ITV and agreements, management, we're beginning to accept them. And we'd like to recognise agreements. So althoug[…]
[…]n gentleman called Laurie Ward.Yes.[Laughter] Of ill repute, and insisted that he transfer me immediately.Mm.Which he did.So you were now a member of ACTT. You were in, in despatch when you first joined the union?Yes.HARRY COURCHA 19And you became a developer?Yes.A developer. And did you get elected[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECTEDWARD CARRICKINTERVIEWED BY SID COLE WITH ALAN LAWSON.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project Edward Carrick, Art Director/Designer, recorded on 30th January 1991.Interviewer, Sid Cole.SC: Teddy, it's lovely to see you after all these years. In […]
