[…]nly a small factory, couple of hundred at the most, and I could never understand why we all had to eat in different places.SF: Was there a good trade union in the factory?There was a trade union. I have to say that my memory of it, and to some extent I was politically naïve, but my memory of it was […]
[…]rsonally, the only time I methim was when we came here to, you know, interview him for the GDR.[10:00]That’s right, yes that’s right. Were you in the union before then?Oh at that time...Dou you still...?Yes it was the... How’s it going? The GDR, German Democratic Republic.Oh yes.And they weren’t rec[…]
[…].Sidney Cole: Who was that, can you remember?Charles Cooper: Yes I'm trying to remember his name, he became afterwards secretary of the metalworker's union, I don't know whether you would know his name?Sidney Cole: Well no, but it could easily be found out. We'd better, for the moment, just for the […]
[…], but he wasn't offering my any more, so I was getting, presumably, whatever the rate was.Alan Lawson: Uh hmm.David Prosser: Oh, and I had joined the Union in 1943, after I'd returned to Movietone, because prior to that we didn't...nobody at Movietone belonged to the Union at all. And we all joined […]
[…] think she was probably the first woman who got a union ticket as, as a cinematographer, and she said she’d […]
[…] remember his name, he became afterwards secretary of the metalworker's union, I don't know whether you would know his name? […]
[…] industrial relations; role of the ACTT; the Newsreel Agreement; National Union of Journalists. Section 4: World War Two and immediate […]
[…]duated recently from the National Film School and had specialised in sixteen millimetre camera and I think she was probably the first woman who got a union ticket as, as a cinematographer, and she said she’d take it on, and started practising with this huge, what’s it called, [gestures hand cranking[…]
[…]they came to him, I'd have to check in his book about that. I've got a copy, I've got the original somewhere of the most ecstatic, nauseating Western Union cablegram from Louis B Mayer welcoming them both to Hollywood. My mother hated every moment of it and in fact started writing a diary which I ha[…]
