[…]were the crews like? Were they co-operative? They were.In point of fact it was very much a family atmosphere in a lot of instances.Yes. That went for NATKE and ETU as well as ACT?Well, as far as I know, but at that time I was more head office staff. I worked at the studios but I wouldn’t have quite […]
[…]g about that. I do know that. I know Bert sat up half the night working on the agreement and he was very appreciated at Thames Television and more by NATKE members than ETU members.Sid Cole: Because it was Tom O ' Brien who was secretary of NATKE and Sir Tom as he became didn't have a very good repu[…]
[…]t before you came to, say, the Benevolent Fund ... there may be something else in between, I don't know?Barry Quinton: Well there was, there was NATKE in between! Yes, I went back to Temple Fortune in 1968 because by then the Company decided to put live shows on so we did a lot of live sho[…]
[…]hey?Charles Wilder: That's right, they were all paid by the hour, and electricians, the electricians used to belong to two unions I remember, ETU and NATKE. And I remember there was a strike by ETU and they brought in all the NATKE electricians. But it gradually developed you see from a very, very s[…]
[…]dged to be right in the best sense of the word. And I've always, of course respected the feelings of people who are in either ACTT or what used to be NATKE because during the years I was an ACTT member, I came to realise that it was most certainly not all bad. There were many things about it, which […]
[…] with a film called Fortune's Fool, Norman Walker was the director. Then I. started on my second film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one of the unions was weak the other two would help. Ealing was one of those studios. We were quite stron[…]
