[…] a house, an empty house, and turned it into Bloom's house, and it was all shut down on location.Speaker 2 16:14 We had some people, some electricians from here, and my operator was an Irish man who is now camera man,Speaker 2 16:38 but the rest was from England, focusburger,[…]
[…]I'm talking about years ago when the union on the films were pretty stiff and you couldn't shift a light from there to there, see, you had to call an electrician, you had to call the standby electrician. Same as, say for instance there were columns, you know what I mean, columns...Sidney Cole: Hmm..[…]
[…] from there to there, see, you had to call an electrician, you had to call the standby electrician. Same as, […]
[…]ole: And then there was a comment from somebody?Tilly Day: Oh, "My Christ!"Sidney Cole: Who said that?Tilly Day: [Chuckling.] The electrician said that when the projector fell to pieces!Sidney Cole: So it was a question of, "My Man, My Woman..."Tilly Day: ... "My Christ[…]
[…]he other one and thruppence.LH: Which was quite a lot of money.WR: Yes. But at that time – or was it a bit later – I seriously thought of becoming an electrician because with one stage only there was an awful lot of rigging of lamps and things after hours, after shooting hours, so they made a great […]
[…]and then went to the studio and there they were they were still shooting and the only union of any consequence of having any muscle in those days was electricians and their only power was in the fact that they had to have a meal break every five hours sleep didn't matter that wasn't catered for so m[…]
[…] Christ!" Sidney Cole: Who said that? Tilly Day: [Chuckling.] The electrician said that when the projector fell to pieces! Sidney […]
[…]ame a little later in terms development of technique but youwere thereMaurice Carter: Because we, there was no trade union at that time except for theelectricians. So everybody was called when there was a changeover, you had to rushdown and help shift all the booths around, apart from shifting the s[…]
[…]p;sue.malden@btinternet.comUnknown Speaker 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project Ted Hallows studio. Electrician, member of the TU recorded on the 17th of May 1989Unknown Speaker 0:17 in his own home at Twickenham. Interviewer. Alan Lawson[…]
