[…] "Yes, that’s alright, you can draw" Which is all I wanted to do, and design and so forth and they were in a terrible state. This was before the ACTT Union and there was a long queue outside the workman's gate 24 hours a day. Everybody was working night and day, literally to try get anything out on […]
[…]nbsp; And The Highlander was the real meeting place and everybody from, very much from the union at that time, you know, everybody, and also all the documentary people. So thatyou... […]
[…]oy Fowler: Clearly an interesting time and place to be, indeed.Norman Fisher: Yes indeed it was.Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union?Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join anyway, not then.Roy Fowler: We'll come onto the union later, I wondered if since Ralph was there w[…]
[…]w they organized the newsreels, and the effect that it had.Speaker 1 12:11 Well, the thing that I knew was I was a member of the National Union of Journalists,Roy Fowler 12:21 and I came into, we're talking now, of when, what issues,Speaker 1 12:24 the beginning o[…]
[…] there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ; Millennium Guild in […]
[…] was. Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union? Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ra assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the union? PB-C: You mentioned the union; that was crucial at the time. The ACTT was running a closed shop, and I remember even at the very early sta[…]
