[…]fairly regular meetings. Because I worked in Dean Street, there was laboratory meetings for once every couple of months. And although they were union meetings, they were quite interesting because you could talk to the other ... I mean people from Humphries and Kays and Technicolor were there a[…]
[…]e had every intention of making films for television and it could have been successful. I understand that when he set the company up, he spoke to the unions including the general secretary of ACTT, Alan Sapper, who said 'No problem. Delighted. Fine. Great.' But unfortunately - here we go a[…]
[…] think about tomorrow's work. I'd go on the set two or three times, but providing all was going well by 10 o'clock that day was done.2. Locations and unionsRP: You always had all your movement orders to work out, if you were going on location, whether you were going abroad, or whether a daily locati[…]
[…] the world, they are amazing and they don't look at union rules, they work any hours if they love the […]
[…]employed me. I did it for 500 year or something, it was very little.But it was interesting also that in those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this sort of odd job film Unit up in Wakefield, well they didn’t mind if there was a Richard Sutclif[…]
[…]couldn't do anything, but when I'm not away and not on foreign locations and not terribly busy then I used to like, I thought well if you belong to a union you ought to know about it, and, and make it non-political and, and it's there for the benefit of the technicians, and I think that's terribly i[…]
[…]s to the ACT but we were still members. That was an arrangement that was brought in, oh, quite early on actually because the ABS was the only sort of union that was recognised by the BBC. And because the BBC wouldn't recognise ACT, ACT said that we could all still remain members but we would not hav[…]
[…]to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I became Vice President of the union.Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT yet. We'll take that separately. At Movietone did you have a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowl[…]
[…] pictures. And I was in on the forming of the union there. My card in the Association of Motion Picture […]
[…] those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this […]
