[…]mber?Vernon Sewell: I don't know.Roy Fowler: No, jurisdiction?Vernon Sewell: See, what happened was this, when the directors had to be unionised, I would never remember, I wouldn't - they said to me, "Mr Sewell, we invite you to join the union." I said, "Thank you very much, I don't n[…]
[…] her for years and years and years. And thanks to her I then went to Leon Clore after World Wide. And the first film I did there was for the National Union of Teachers and it was called I Want to go to School. And that was really my best time because Leon was the most loyal producer who always stood[…]
[…]l nowadays. And people would think it was alarming. But at the time it was marvelous, it was wonderful.DR: Did you have anything to do with the trade unions.WT: Not really, I just joined them,DR: Were you an Equity person rather than aWT: Yes, all of them, I have to be all of them. And you see when […]
[…] up to me and said, "Excuse me, where is your ticket?" I never knew what he meant, so I said, "What is it?" He explained it to me and said he was the Union and you couldn't work there without a ticket and I said, "I'm sorry I have none." So he said, "You won't be able to work here I'm afraid, you ha[…]
[…]d me did you?" So it was all good fun amongst the chaps.Ralph Bond: Very nice. Alf I believe you were one of the first newsreel cameramen to join the union and to try to get your colleagues organised in the union. But, probably because they were all individualists, it wasn't too easy at first was it[…]
[…]here were not machines for developing film except at Hepworth – it all had to be done by hand in frames.[Break in recording]00:05:22 – 00:14:17 Trade unions; attempt to establish a film workers union in 1920; the company eventually went broke; DD moved to Stoll Studios as a camera assistant working […]
[…]I think about that time they did stop the King or the Queen at the end didn't they? At the end of every programme they used to put...JH: And yes, the Union Jack thing.BH: That's right and I think it was about that time it stopped wasn't it?JH: Yes.BH: Which was quite a relief because the films and w[…]
[…]uttons, exaggerated.Alan Lawson: But it was on the - don't you remember the famous occasion on 'The Arsenal Murder Mystery'[sic] with him in his Union Jack shirt?Tilly Day: Oh yes...no, no! That wasn't 'The Arsenal Stadium Mystery', that was when we were in Ireland. We were in Ireland and […]
[…]:29 Was that up at Elstree?Unknown Speaker 12:32 No, that was at Denham,Unknown Speaker 12:36 a long time for the other unions.Unknown Speaker 12:39 What are your recollections of those early days Denham, with act at Denham.Unknown Speaker 12:48 […]
[…] and I always felt there was tremendous protection from the union to me and er, well, the subscription I don't […]
