[…]nd what could be done in terms of the actual agreements which existed then.RP: Yes, you always had a pre production meeting on all pictures which was basically a good idea because the unions, it was all unions - ACTT [Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians], ETU [Electricians[…]
[…]il because you put all the chalk on it with the numbers and everything and it all disappeared in no time at all. I got five shillings a week, and the basic minimum wage in those days was three pounds ten, and I got five shillings a week.DB. So did you look at the various things going on on the set a[…]
[…]ne particular one, I think it was, it was called, I'm just trying to think what, the name of it, Watertight. It was for the, well I think it was basically for the, for the Navy because it was to do with closing all of the hatches and things on the...Submarines?Submarines and things like that, y[…]
[…]..Tilly Day: No, 'Matinee Idol' was at Wembley.Alan Lawson: Oh, was it?Sidney Cole: Oh, the old Wembley Studios, yeah. Which are still basically here... I mean...Tilly Day: Yes they are Lee[?] Yes he was um...Sidney Cole: You mean you worked with David when he was a cutter?T[…]
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[…]HP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for a[…]
[…]ad all these, sort of, hand picked people. But today you're on the common market, people are only interested in what they get in their hand on Friday basically. But we still carry on and we still increase. We've got set ups in France and Paris, Samuelson Alga and in Australia, bought another set up […]
[…]yal Engineers Chemical Warfare. My base was to be Barton Stacy which isn't far from Handover, 1 think Long Parish was the actual address. I was doing basic training and it was there I had an accident and I had a deranged internal something with the knee and I went into hospital. I was in hospital fr[…]
[…]ous himself, he was up there, you know, absolutely.But I helped to organise the whole shop, I’m not saying I did it on my own, I mean it was all basically him but I did all that, you know, that sort of thing. And they were a new set - lettering artists - they were a new. And he, he at that time[…]
