[…]ts] What was his name, do you remember?WR: I can’t remember, but I’m going to be a bit libellous, he said he didn’t like ACT and they didn’t have the unions, and if there wasn’t much doing and he asked me to clean his car, then I cleaned his car. So that didn’t go very much further that morning. Wel[…]
[…]s which they controlled in order to broadcast the material we created. Secondly they were almost invariably either in or on the verge of being in the union and those were experiences which most producers knew nothing about at all most of our skills were literary skills or quasi literary or journalis[…]
[…] it seems incredible now – a history of the trade union movement, with Lord Francis Williams, Postmaster General in Attlee’s […]
[…] 8 sound crews at that time) in to the ACT union in 1938. The membership increased dramatically after a recruiting […]
[…] in this country but in that pre-handbagging era the film union was guarding its closed shop with concentrated might. To […]
[…]n the switches panel we didn't have vision pictures we had technical directors whatever they were called, they were part of a very very fierce strong union - we had IBEW, NBC had NABET – and you would take whatever number it was which put the Telop up, the system Telop, and you would say mix system,[…]
[…]t would have been one of the Gaumont British newsreel cameramen someone 1ike Edmunds. It would be one of them.KGY: Can you recall the period from the union point of view.CC: I can only remember and it was an awful long time ago, it wasn't a union in the sense that the union is today. It was the sort[…]
[…]was at Warner Brothers, yes, at Teddington...KM:... where I never worked.Sidney Cole: When did you start - you must have got more associated with the Union in those days, had you?Kay Mander: I think I was - yes, I was on the General Council, wasn't I?Sidney Cole: You must have been one of the very e[…]
