[…]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[…]
[…]and I will give you the embassy, if you need the embassy I will give you the reception room and we will have the reception here with the heads of the unions and so forth and possibly the BFPTA, get together and start talking. I got in touch with that, I got in touch with the other, and nobody wanted[…]
[…]d some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members [laughs] and that point we weren't announcing that we were doing th[…]
[…] I was given a terrible shock. Apparently the ACTT, the union, had found out that I was under sixteen years […]
[…] movement during the mid 1930s. Tomlin was active as a Union Shop Steward, and he remembers details of the early […]
[…] was. Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union? Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join […]
[…] in the States He became an active Chair of the Union’s Producer Director Committee in the Nineteen Eighties. I worked […]
[…]e got 30 shillings a day then. And if you were on sandy Powell picture which I was or a Mancunian film, which is made by men, I think debit card bank union films of the north of England, with terrible comics in, you've got the bear Guinea a day even if you want your evening dressed, they just wouldn[…]
[…]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[…]
