[…]t him and accused him of sabotage on the boom, and he was sacked. That actually happened. But there's an excuse as an excuse me just because he was a union representative. And I really, I must say I had a ticket. But I didn't. Except for these meetings which we went to the back of the Power BI I've […]
[…] used to meet a little cafe right next to the Regal, up above. And he didn't last very long because he was sacked out of hand because he knows it was union cinemas owned by union cinemas ABC hadn't taken over in which they did when I was there. And then we will take them into the office one at a tim[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I became Vice President of the union.Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT yet. We'll take that separately. At Movietone did you have a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowl[…]
[…] a couple of years I became Vice President of the union. Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT […]
[…]wing that already started doing The Goon Show. I've done Hancock's Half Hour, I’ve done the first all girl’s show The Rag Trade, which is about trade unioNS:. I’ve done some wild shows. All experimental so far. This is going to be the big one. And we decided that homo sapieNS: is a load of lazy rubb[…]
[…]until I went into the army at 18. Had you become a member of Rotary team. Yes. Well Charlie approach me you see and in my family to belong to a trade union was almost sacrilegious. You have to understand. So I said right. I know about that as it really should. I didn't know about that. Anyhow Charli[…]
[…]ver heard of GlebelandsRoy Fowler 43:31 Let's talk about ACTT you joined it when you went to Technicolour Yes, what's your opinion of the Union? Oh, they've looked after me verySpeaker 1 43:41 Oh, they've looked after me very well, and they looked after us allRoy Fowler […]
[…] films in 1939 and he worked for Alexander Korda, Denham Studios, and he was an electrician then.Sid Cole: He had a lot to do with the running of the union at Denham.Betty Bachelor: He was a convenor there. He became a convenor about three years later, he worked on a lot of productions but when[…]
