[…]doesn't matter whether he's next in turn or not, the producer has him." Because there had been a strict rota before that. Roy Fowler: Andy, were unions a pain in the arse in the fifties and the sixties? They had been rather earlier hadn't they, in the forties, I think they achieved their maximu[…]
[…]g people...Lew Grade : And we have great creative talent. Our technicians are probably the best in the world, they are amazing and they don't look at union rules, they work any hours if they love the project, love the people that are involved with. I found them absolutely remarkable, here.Alan Sappe[…]
Paddy O’Gorman (PO)Union (ACTT) Laboratories (Technicolor)BECTU No.257Interviewer: Alan Sapper (AS)Date 31/07/921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:05:45 Introductions; born in Tipperary educated by the Christian Brothers; lived in Tipperary until he was 18 when he joined the Irish Army in 1936; one of […]
[…]employed me. I did it for 500 year or something, it was very little.But it was interesting also that in those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this sort of odd job film Unit up in Wakefield, well they didn’t mind if there was a Richard Sutclif[…]
[…]ting. She was a darling, I like her so much.GS: When you say you got a job here and there, was there any formal facility for getting one, was there a union.DA: Yes, there was a union and I joined the union, and I remained a member of the union for a long time, this was in the States, they didn't hav[…]
[…]oming back, and they had asked me to become a small part and crowd casting director, because the film artists Association, which was the crowd artist union, was getting stronger, and they had started and inaugurated various conditions of service, but captive heart. I almost remember great clarity, b[…]
[…]ised.You see, what happened in every respect of that, fancy that, a man having the cheek to hit him in the [???], the vice-resident of the u-, of the union, my goodness. He was not hurt because he got plenty of flesh all round, you know. But there was this [???] And my goodness, that scene went up a[…]
[…] those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this […]
[…] there any formal facility for getting one, was there a union. DA: Yes, there was a union and I joined […]
[…]p;MI5 and told the story about F Branch that had been set up to do internal surveillance and had been routinelyLiz Forgan Page 18spying on trade unionists and members of left-wing political parties, which was an interesting and important story.[50:04]The other difficult, I mean there were a lot[…]
