[…]s were members of the Union and this cameraman, studio cameraman, had been employed, and I think he had worked in Dublin before he came to us and the Manager who was taking him on did ask quietly, "Was he a member of the Union?" and the cameraman said, "Yes", he was a member of the Union shop so he […]
[…] came in 1932 I think and I don't know whether one should tell. When I got into the cutting rooms I became friends with Lew Thornburn who was General Manager of Shepperton Studios, had been at Denham with Alex. And he told me lots of anecdotes about Alex.John Legard: When he first arrived?Teddy[…]
[…]uate management of the union in the past. And of course, Alan's response to that was to retreat and say, but I'm not the chief executive, I'm not the manager. I have to report to all sorts of committees. I'm not allowed to do the job as I really want to. The same time you had Roy Roy lock at the Dep[…]
[…]bsp;when actually,Speaker 3 1:27 1994 September the 13th, 1914 1914 whereabouts in ill for Essex, Ill for Essex, sorry, and my father was manager of cardboard box company. And my mother, until her marriage, used to go to Switzerland every year for many years, and was a mountaineer and wa[…]
[…] get through. And it wasn't...we had a very nice production manager, whose name I forget...and it wasn't until the end […]
[…]time. AndUnknown Speaker 10:50 nearly everybody who lived in Upper Vale, worked in the steelworks. So I went into the steelworks with the manager. And I saw sites I've never seen before, especially places like the blast furnace. And the manager said, Oh, because we didn't get you closer,[…]
[…]sman at Liverpool branch and he won one or two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948 was promoted again to sales manager of Columbia Pictures and was based in London. So, of course, he brough[…]
[…]s a baptism of fire that, isn't it?Peggy Gick: God, it was a nightmare! But somehow we did get through. And it wasn't...we had a very nice production manager, whose name I forget...and it wasn't until the end of [the summer?] that he came to me and said, "by the way, how much experience have you had[…]
