[…]ickly and Sid Brugson [ph 0:34:17] was in charge.Oh yes, yes, yes.19Peggy Hyde-Chambers. Tape 1 Side AAnd that’s when I got, did quite a bit with the unions because he used to take me to the union meetings in which they were all there.Yes.And, and I became the person who takes all the subs at Denham[…]
[…]lt for me to work in America at all, I was able to finally to work in New York because I was able to, to breach the problem of getting into the local union and 644. But that didn't help me as far as Los Angeles. at all, in fact, it was probably even worse. But this year, of course, I suddenly became[…]
[…] that I get to see some of the real early TV people who are colleagues of mine. People like Bill Ward and Basil Adams. And who else was at the last reunion, how many people Yvonne Littlewood who was a contemporary of mine, and some of the very early producers and directors, I'd venture to suggest th[…]
The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History ProjectInterview with Rosamund JohnInterviewer: Rodney Giesler RG: Could you tell me your background Rosamund, how you started acting and what was the situation?RJ: Well I don’t know why, I always wanted to be an actre[…]
[…]d me did you?" So it was all good fun amongst the chaps.Ralph Bond: Very nice. Alf I believe you were one of the first newsreel cameramen to join the union and to try to get your colleagues organised in the union. But, probably because they were all individualists, it wasn't too easy at first was it[…]
[…]atest problemswith Sidney were protecting people who he wanted to fire and stopping him from taking the mostoutrageously autocratic actions vis-a-vis unions which would immediately have caused a strike. Hecould not ever understand why shop stewards couldn't see reason - which meant seeing things the[…]
[…] films in 1939 and he worked for Alexander Korda, Denham Studios, and he was an electrician then.Sid Cole: He had a lot to do with the running of the union at Denham.Betty Bachelor: He was a convenor there. He became a convenor about three years later, he worked on a lot of productions but when[…]
[…] yes. What do you think of acts standing up until the war?Speaker 2 27:12 Well, I always think back, particularly today, everybody knocks unions, but I remember how I used to work till two every morning. Saturdays and Sundays never get paid for it. So when a union came along, I thought, […]
