Search Results for: Union (ACT)

[…] over there, you come under the Transport and General Worker's Union." And he said, "We're opening up in September 1935." […]

[…] making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital form, […]

[…] making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital form, […]

[…] in this country but in that pre-handbagging era the film union was guarding its closed shop with concentrated might. To […]

[…]ion-mixing really and then a lot of playing out because we recorded all the programmes on half-inch tape and then they were played out to the Student Union at lunchtime so we had to do a kind of switch-over. Somebody had to go to the Union and switch all the monitors on and then somebody had to do a[…]

[…]te of debt. And blue eyes got to university free. I got an exhibition, sub scholarship. And, and I blew it. I was running around enjoying life in the Union bar and chasing goals and everything. And my first year results showed it I thought I've let everybody down. And but subsequently, I was in a st[…]

[…] and the prettiest girls would come up to you and want to talk and so on and so on, and they devise the holiday on these lines. However, the American union has toughened and in the last 10 years of my career, it became impossible to take British technicians to America to shoot a documentary film, th[…]

[…]and...Roy Fowler: Well we haven't quite. One final thing we haven't touched on - the arrival of ACT. You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't claim that, oh no.Roy Fowler: Oh I thought you were when you mentioned - when you tal[…]

[…] Yes, yes. I see. Because, no, the real trouble with all that stuff out at Wembley was that we were still in the clutches of the awful union problems and it was unbelievable because of course theoretically I should have been a union member. To Equity? Well, of something.&nbs[…]

[…]got one in Ireland." And he said, "I'll show the lads - you'll be all right when you go over there, you come under the Transport and General Worker's Union." And he said, "We're opening up in September 1935." So anyway I had to go out to Dublin to see him, went out and saw him and sure enough I was […]