[…]use I don't remember much about him really. Of course the other guy was there he came over, who was the ex-Spitfire pilot who still does things RAF reunions and things? John P. Hamilton 6:18 Oh, Tony. John Ammonds 6:22 OBs he works a […]
[…]'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and ... ah ... I don't know, I must have done four or five or six or something, pictures. And I was in on the forming of the union there. My card in the Association of Motion Picture Art Directors of America is number 77. I was there at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel the […]
[…]g people...Lew Grade : And we have great creative talent. Our technicians are probably the best in the world, they are amazing and they don't look at union rules, they work any hours if they love the project, love the people that are involved with. I found them absolutely remarkable, here.Alan Sappe[…]
[…]s for brothers and sisters. And it was in this Gymnasium that he met Alexander Korda who was in a parallel form. My father was standing for Student's Union and he found somebody was working against him and that turned out to be Alexander Korda, of course the family name was Kelner. They became the v[…]
[…]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... […]
[…]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[…]
[…] I was given a terrible shock. Apparently the ACTT, the union, had found out that I was under sixteen years […]
