[…]s explaining what all the various...[break in recording]Peggy Gick: Well I complained about this bitterly at an art department section meeting at the union and we decided that we would ask them if they would have a deputation...or they agreed to have a deputation of art directors go up to see the sc[…]
[…]ind. I was always a mocker from childhood. There was always something about me that mocked in disguise when I was but at LSC, you were in the student union, a great deal of wit, very clever wits. Bernard Levin was one of the stars of the Union. We were great friends. In fact, the first time I actual[…]
[…] what have you we're quite happy. My father was a professional musician. Ted Anstey. His name was he was Assistant General Secretary of the musicians union in the end. And I was taught the violin. And through the violin, I won a special talent scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. When I was ab[…]
[…] that I get to see some of the real early TV people who are colleagues of mine. People like Bill Ward and Basil Adams. And who else was at the last reunion, how many people Yvonne Littlewood who was a contemporary of mine, and some of the very early producers and directors, I'd venture to suggest th[…]
[…]p;the films that I worked on you know, even when you're doingAlan Lawson 28:11 makeupRay Morse 28:13 where we didn't have any unions in my day you see I mean, that film I said Hullo Fame that was a musical designed designed all the sets I did all the makeup I was in it I wrot[…]
[…] originalSteptoe series, which was another. We were talking about double acts earlier weren’t we, and...Yes.In terms of comedy there, there were union situations, there was Hugh and, Hugh andI, which was Hugh Lloyd and, and Terry... Oh, de, de, de, de, de..Yes. Quite, de, de, de, yes.Oh go[…]
[…]atest problemswith Sidney were protecting people who he wanted to fire and stopping him from taking the mostoutrageously autocratic actions vis-a-vis unions which would immediately have caused a strike. Hecould not ever understand why shop stewards couldn't see reason - which meant seeing things the[…]
[…]s and the ACT and various members; discussion about where ACT meetings took place; 1350 people worked at Technicolor and they were all covered by one union agreement although everyone was in their own union; best job in the area before the airport came.[END]
[…]y.Kay Mander: So your fame had gone quite wide by then, already.Joy Batchelor: Well, the films had.Kay Mander: So during all this time, there was the union. You've mentioned ACT not understanding about editors.Joy Batchelor: No they don't, to this day.Kay Mander: Did you, you joined ACTT - or ACT, r[…]
