[…]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[…]
[…]nbsp; And The Highlander was the real meeting place and everybody from, very much from the union at that time, you know, everybody, and also all the documentary people. So thatyou... […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]r a studio. And I got up next morning went and had breakfast at and then went to the studio and there they were they were still shooting and the only union of any consequence of having any muscle in those days was electricians and their only power was in the fact that they had to have a meal break e[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…] had a lot to do with the running of the union at Denham. Betty Bachelor: He was a convenor there. […]
