[…]ive and they got a lot of the sound people into the ETU, some didn't join but some did. And then there was a thing between the ETU and NATKE, the two unions - that the ETU wanted to have all ETU members as projectionists throughout the country. It was easy enough to organise, if they could have got […]
[…], but he wasn't offering my any more, so I was getting, presumably, whatever the rate was.Alan Lawson: Uh hmm.David Prosser: Oh, and I had joined the Union in 1943, after I'd returned to Movietone, because prior to that we didn't...nobody at Movietone belonged to the Union at all. And we all joined […]
[…]e director. Then I. started on my second film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one of the unions was weak the other two would help. Ealing was one of those studios. We were quite strong, NATKE was quite strong, ETU were not strong. In fact […]
[…] Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of […]
[…] had a shirt which had been made out of a union Jack. This sort of extroverted character. Anyway we worked […]
[…]ople did you come across at that time? I suppose you knew Arnold Ridley who wrote 'The Ghost Train'?Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of Bath! [laughs]Rodney Giesler: Oh was he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I never actually worked with him but occa[…]
[…]p;5:53 Was What was that?Paddy Carey 5:55 That was on the average, which john was involved in?John Taylor 6:00 The Euro union went to Nepal. Yes,Paddy Carey 6:02 yes. Myself and Leon claw. We only went after the mountain was actually climbed. Because I think[…]
[…]ascal.Interviewer 29:46 What do you remember of PascalGordon Hales 29:48 Well, you already saw him about or he turned up in a union meeting protests that of which. There were stories of his grotesque this flying about grotesque i would have said mentally unbalancedInterviewer[…]
[…]s a paramount picture, and it was an American, you know, really American picture. So they were very much against it. We had enormous trouble with the unions over there, although we had, we had American standings, or did we call them more backups for every one of us, nevertheless, they, although they[…]
