[…]d some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members [laughs] and that point we weren't announcing that we were doing th[…]
[…]ry nice camel man called galley Hatchard, who came to me in Pinewood when I'd been there a week or two, and said, We think that you ought to join the union. I said, praise be. Somebody suggested it and joined and got a card, and straight away, and there wasn't any King's regulations about it either.[…]
[…] there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ; Millennium Guild in […]
[…] consequently what I was going to tell you about the union, which would come in now. When I started off […]
[…] were early activists within the ACT, the film technicians’ trade union, which had been founded in 1933 and, after a […]
[…]orrect. All the technicians were paid. How was it funded? Erm, well there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection; Millennium Guild in New York. There’s a much more developed animal welfare movement in this country than in th[…]
[…]uld only have a certain amount of records played because they wanted music played by live musicians and that was a deal they made with the Musicians’ Union. (Time 31:41) I quite understand why the Musicians’ Union did that but that, of course, has since been rescinded to the degree wher[…]
[…]unity to work in side by side with an experienced person picking out what he or she does. There are a numbers as we know, I guess you do too, for the union of young directors, also acting as their own cameraman, or their own camera operator. And again, that means that the experience, camera operator[…]
[…]McDougall**] And anyway... Easter 1948... Eventually I came back to England, wanderings over, looking for a job. [I] went first to a Sidcott School reunion - now one of the advantages of Sidcott School was that it was a coeducational school - [00:41:40] And in fact I went straight from Southamp[…]
[…] used to meet a little cafe right next to the Regal, up above. And he didn't last very long because he was sacked out of hand because he knows it was union cinemas owned by union cinemas ABC hadn't taken over in which they did when I was there. And then we will take them into the office one at a tim[…]
