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[…]                         (Re union membership). At BBC I was one of very few ACTT members. I thought ABS was a house union whereas ACTT was real muscle. At Kensington House, Chronicle p[…]

[…]Threadgall  12:20  So we have some the names of some of these people as I suppose, in their own way, they're legends in their own lifetime. I can recall a doorman called Thomas Gardner, who, I think he was here from 1930 to 34 and he was very concerned about the so called Tuppenn[…]

[…]the trainee projectionist did more cleaning than projecting but however I seem to take the job and couldn't wait to take my first changeover. And I remember waiting in great anticipation to be allowed to take a changeover which meant going from one projector to another on the same film because they […]

[…]in it. And I said “well, why don’t you have a new hat?” and he said “no, I’ll mend the hole” so he sewed up the hole in the hat, and (laughs) and I remember we met someone in a pub or a bar once, and er…the guy said (attempts accent) “aren’t you a peanut planter?” because they were doing a peanut sc[…]

[…] to tell you a little bit about him because he was quite a character, certainly in the industry. He had a pretty chequered career before the war. I remember that in my youth we had a couple of cut price cigarette and Sweet shops in Liverpool, in the Parliament Street area and not one that is to be e[…]

[…]family, I lived with them. And they were absolutely wonderful to me virtually like a mother and father. I, then when I was nine years of age, I can remember it was on late June afternoon. We had finished an afternoon matinee at the Sheffield Empire. And I came up to get a breath of air. And remember[…]

[…]r; JB talks about the various roles in the art department; JB mentions Rollerball and a party sequence set in the not-too-distance future which was a challenge for costume design; period must be respected in when making period films.00:29:55 – 00:32:00 JB talks about working with costume designer Ph[…]

[…]o, it wasn't a Waugh, it was a well-known camera.Alan Lawson: Well - the Bell? No, it wouldn't have been a Bell, No - Mitchell?John Turner: I can't remember what we used actually, terrible isn't it? Anyway, one of the big jobs we had was at Lincoln when they used to run the Lincoln race at Lincoln, […]