Edward Dryhurst

[…] projectionist?Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah, most of them were moonlighting. Er, I think the projectionists were also moonlighting, yes.Roy Fowler: Were they union members already at that stage?Eddie Dryhurst: There were no unions in those days.Roy Fowler: Not at all, not even for the projectionists?Eddie D[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]n the switches panel we didn't have vision pictures we had technical directors whatever they were called, they were part of a very very fierce strong union - we had IBEW, NBC had NABET – and you would take whatever number it was which put the Telop up, the system Telop, and you would say mix system,[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]don't know if you knew him?Charles Drazin: The name rings a bell, yes.Manny Yospa: He was actually the film department of the Labour Party, the Trade Union Congress and the Co-operative Movement! And below him were the ACT -Charles Drazin: [Chuckles] Which would have just begun, presumably?Manny Yos[…]

John Aldred

[…] a Denham shop because at that "time not everyone working at Denham was in the ACT and I was about the only member of the sound department who in the union. One lunchtime I remember we had a meeting with both Anthony Asquith who was the president in those days and George Elvin and they both addresse[…]

Hazel Allen

[…]sp;4:33  it's all going very much because this sort of subsidiaryUnknown Speaker  4:36  interpolate into matches where film orientated union to some degree. I mean the history project. They played in cinemas video notUnknown Speaker  4:47  a cinema. Yes. That was another fun[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]s to the ACT but we were still members. That was an arrangement that was brought in, oh, quite early on actually because the ABS was the only sort of union that was recognised by the BBC. And because the BBC wouldn't recognise ACT, ACT said that we could all still remain members but we would not hav[…]

Tom Peacock

[…] everything else, when you hold a position in a trade union, some people like you and some people don't. But […]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]s. So our family was known in the whole of Vienna, I should say, as left wing.Speaker 2  5:01  And in 1934 they had begun to imprison trade unionists, even church people, for protesting against the semi fascist government we had then in Austria, the Dolphus government. So as the economic s[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]r a studio. And I got up next morning went and had breakfast at and then went to the studio and there they were they were still shooting and the only union of any consequence of having any muscle in those days was electricians and their only power was in the fact that they had to have a meal break e[…]
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