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[…]y girl called Kay Mander, who later became a great director, a great director of documentaries. Erm..and she was erm, she said to me, “are you in the union?” and I said ‘union?’ and she said “yes.. the ACT. It’s the association of cinematograph technicians, and I said ‘no’. She said ‘well, you can j[…]
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[…]hink it’s public space. And they were leafleting the little organisation called... I’ve forgotten what it was called now, but it was to do with trade union rights, and they were leafleting the area and we went in and we just followed them in, which I didn’t think we did more than that. So that was a[…]