Julia Cave

[…]ht be useful.Julia Cave:  And therefore give the cameraman a very hard time, because they’re not disciplined into the hours and there aren’t any unions of course, any more either.  And people are so afraid of losing their jobs, that they’ll go on with these young kids, who don’t know what […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]inter, the plasterers, the carpenters, stage hands and it was a friendly atmosphere.  It wasn’t quite as rigid I think as the big studios in the union sense.  Today it would be classed as left of Stalin I guess but in comparison to restrictions that used to be imposed it was not – it was j[…]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]e ever laid off there at all. In fact, I'mwhat sort  of money wasIt was one six pence three farthings and hour and the pink ticket rate. And the union. Ealing, they weren't really militant. I don't think they're really militant at all anywhere. Except the VIP, of course, they were they were pre[…]

John Shirley

[…]s no no jobs here, you know that I was about the last person they wanted to say I was I say I went home with a big chip on my shoulder. I went to the union. And I was told they couldn't I thought I could have six months with the arco British who weren't making a picture of the town. So I went to the[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]ot this the Fairfield halls, and it actually won. It won a gold prize at the film festival and music was awesome. This is back in 1975. And not being union person. I didn't have quite the correct credit, as opposed to being a production assistant, I was an assistant to the producer, because that was[…]

Tony Bridgewater

[…]uldn't have anybody who could only hear with one ear minding a radio station. So I received notice. And I was rather incensed about this and we had a union and the only time in my life I made use of its services, Post Office Engineering Union. I appealed to them. They took it up and eventually got, […]

Hugh Stewart

[…] really discredited the state of Europe and whether we liked it or not we were obviously drawn to the hope that something was happening in the Soviet Union. And although with the monstrosities of Stalin, it gradually became - one became - disillusioned. Nevertheless I never felt the slightest need t[…]
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