[…] the famous Elkins brothers. They are both. Taffy Elkins and electrician. His brother was a carpenter and father was in […]
[…] or did not enter without invitation (including the operator’s box, electrician’s rooms and manager’s office). Female-exclusive rooms are staff areas […]
[…] I know at one stage we were in Italy on film called His Excellency stayed at Palermo in Sicily. We're all staying at the hotel the whole crew though electricians everybody else like that. And it was some of the best Italian food you could eat as parts quite a few of the crew you know that's electri[…]
[…]eally. I have a list here. Even on ‘This Week’: you had a Reporter, a Director, a Researcher, two people on Camera, two people on Sound, a union Electrician for lights, and a Production Assistant to deal with all the business. PW: And even if you didn’t have lights you took an electrician […]
[…]ure by the Unions but in fact all he wanted was some GVs of the Dundee skyline. We went to the top of Law hill and we had eight cars, we had a Spark (Electrician), we had a stage crew and the stage crew had a caption stand, we plonked the caption stand down, it was foggy, we couldn't shoot anything […]
[…]scalated, I think. I think it was about pay basically, I can't remember. I think it was about pay and there was industrial action taking place so the electricians were taking industrial action which was that they were basically, the company was only powering up the station on their allotted hours, I[…]
[…]ile of this stuff. Somebody made the contact and the whole thing went up with a great thing. Now they all thought accident happened because the chief electrician or man called jock dime, or was refilling the tins after the first take. When because of the heat of the tin the entire thing went up. And[…]
[…]w. It's in a way that the all the technology has changed hugely. And you know, the lamps have changed, you know, I mean, it was a chat but one of the electricians at Pinewood you know, when they had all the big 10k lamps, you know, lots of doing a big technical production of huge amount of light nee[…]
[…]many years. So I said one day , doing as I was the lighting I said," I don't know if I want to be an architect. Maybe I'll go to the studio and be an electrician." And they said, "No, no, no, you don't want to be an electrician. Go in the sound department" because I thought an electrician would do t[…]
[…]as an entire unit at Ealing waiting to start shooting. The carpenters were there, the lighting men were there, the actors were there but there was no electrician there and nobody would dare touch the main switch. And I remember Mick saying, 'I cannot believe that this is a restrictive practice that […]