[…]t, if we have any right at all, to say “no,you can't work in films if you're not in the union”, there is no closed shop any more. RF: There's no legal closed shop.LH: So, we can't stop anybody doing what they want to do. RF: No, I think the saving grace is that there are contracts with the[…]
[…] shown. It was trade shown once which wa s a legal obligation. There was never any expla- nation at all […]
[…]ol holiday period that would formerly have been a mainstay of the business! After a struggle I finally got my “redundancy package” - albeit the basic legal minimum they were required to pay and a rather pathetic china mug, which must have set them back all of 50p, with “You‘re the Best“ printed on i[…]
[…]at I’d already been on to Clive Selwood, his manager and agent and booked him for the next eight weeks, and a verbal booking from a BBC producer is a legal contract. So, as far as they were concerned, I’d been very , very naughty, and booked him without their permission, and they didn’t want h[…]
[…]e monster they've seen. same happened to Sarah, Sarah writing this. And in fact, this happens so often also, quite often, I was called away for legal problems. Or one particular example, it was because in fact, the 12th copy of a document needed to get my rushes out of India. The commas have d[…]
[…]showed it to them I don't know what happened to it after that they all said they retreated behind the same screen a and hat and enabling and actually legal and everything. And we nearly went for it you see it is very difficult for. Any commercial company to take a law case against the BBC because yo[…]
[…] Speaker 4:46 must be finishing maybe this year, I don't know.Unknown Speaker 4:52 Well, yes, it's a different situation now. Legal trust, yeah, in a shocking right? Yeah. Legal trust.Unknown Speaker 5:00 Yeah, well, and so is Lee Panavision. So it's very difficul[…]
[…]think what they used to do to a large extent was, they did a lot of blind booking which of course the Films Act, which came into force in 1927 made illegal. They would decide on a programme and pictures - mostly subjects that were in the public domain, so they didn't have to pay any royalties or rig[…]
[…]film producer. But it didn't give any address or contact number, which is a pity because I'd very much like to get in contact with him. And I had the legal documentation to prove that Great Shows was a subsidiary company of Michael Balcon Productions Limited. And so anybody and I think this was Deli[…]
