[…]es with measures marked on them. He was a nice fellow.SC: Presumably he learned something from all that?EC: Oh, yes and of course there was Frank the Electrician. He was marvellous. I don’t know his other name. I must say he gave me more laughs than anybody I had ever met in the film industry. He sa[…]
[…]no engineer, what the devil can I do, I was booked to play the next day another concert in the open-air cinema next door. Any way I called one of the electricians, it was a faulty plug, the organ was alright. The next day it was a bit cooler in the open-air cinema, and of course after that I did a l[…]
[…]onsequence was, of course, as I say, that overtime didn't exist; overtime did exist, but I mean you weren't paid for it. Certain unions - I think the Electricians' Union was really powerful at that time - the unions that were not specifically concerned with the film industry only, they had better wo[…]
[…]as getting on. My father said, “what have you been doing today?” I said well I've been on strike because the management refused to negotiate with the electricians. He left me wondering if the film industry was a good idea after all but I was determined to persevere with this career and it was shortl[…]
[…]n fact one of the staff with John Mowlens became rather famous, also in thefilm industry eventually, was Ron Haig, he was an electrician on Mowlens. W[…]
[…] and men who played money, who went and they got a marvelous hand at wist, a winning hand. All the dark, all the bloody dark wanted to do this bloody electrician, to put him in the dark. You see. When he being a being a Cockney, he had a pretty quick answer for me. I can only think I could have lost[…]
[…]you'll never get it past the unions." So I said, "well try me" you know. "I'll have a go." Which I did. Now, the only objections we had were from the electricians, and...I think Tubby had got a copy of this paper, or something like that, and showed it to them in the studio, or something, and they sa[…]
[…]w. Graham McGuinness wasn't out with us all the time, he did come with us to Toronto but mostly it was Stanley and the cameraman, Edgar Loew, and the electrician and me, just the four of us in most of the places.AL: Were many of the films made in colour or was it all black and white? DA: No, there w[…]
[…]'re people who are. We have a few here. They drive in with their BMWs. As they leave their BMW, they put on their cloth cap and come in to work as an electrician in the studio. And I'm afraid there's a pose. I know, Warner cloth cap burn more blow stairs than most ofKeith Ewart 31:12 the[…]
[…] drink from the Wrong source, but we had a nice cool drink and went off. I remember when we got to Brussels, the unit had a day off the next day, the electricians all came round to our hotel, because we were going to get into a bus, we were going to sightseeing or something and they all had huge gri[…]
