[…]use I don't remember much about him really. Of course the other guy was there he came over, who was the ex-Spitfire pilot who still does things RAF reunions and things? John P. Hamilton 6:18 Oh, Tony. John Ammonds 6:22 OBs he works a […]
[…]'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and ... ah ... I don't know, I must have done four or five or six or something, pictures. And I was in on the forming of the union there. My card in the Association of Motion Picture Art Directors of America is number 77. I was there at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel the […]
[…]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[…]
[…] "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 […]
[…]e mainly concerned with a religious teaching, a very sort of basic level like. You obeyed the parish priest and got to church regular and went to communion regular and confessed your sins regular and put money in the plate regular, all that kind of thing. But there was no real, what I would call the[…]
[…]Kenneth Griffith 35:39 Wasn't the minimum rate extremely low? Kenneth Griffith 35:41 Oh, well, unions didn't come into it much then. Another, another reason for the decline? Colin Moffat 35:49 You mean, you could make […]
[…]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[…]
[…]sp; with female labour, many of them were gone by then. Another great change I found was that the union had arrived and a chap called AlfCooper, he had me in one day and said "You have to join&[…]
