[…] the projection box. To combat the sudden scarcity of projectionists, union leaders and the trade press began contemplating schemes that […]
[…] websites and resources BECTU The UK’s media and entertainment trade union, covering broadcasting, film, independent production, theatre and the arts, leisure […]
[…]st paid by the hour, were they?Charles Wilder: That's right, they were all paid by the hour, and electricians, the electricians used to belong to two unions I remember, ETU and NATKE. And I remember there was a strike by ETU and they brought in all the NATKE electricians. But it gradually developed […]
[…]s a paramount picture, and it was an American, you know, really American picture. So they were very much against it. We had enormous trouble with the unions over there, although we had, we had American standings, or did we call them more backups for every one of us, nevertheless, they, although they[…]
[…]: And I said, "Oh, well I think I ought to join that," you see. And he nearly fell down when somebody actually volunteered that he wanted to join the union. And so that was it, I joined on the spot and I didn't pay any really very active role until...Alan Lawson : When was that?Gordon McCallum : Tha[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] think she was probably the first woman who got a union ticket as, as a cinematographer, and she said she’d […]
[…] seen a mixed audience, men and women at the student union, with the men in tears. And they were telling […]
