[…] didn't know any other way, you know, it was grand! Anyway, the next rather frightening thing that happened there was the thing that put me off trade unions for many, many, many years. And it has a sequel later on, which we'll be talking about. But, during that period, there was the big strike which[…]
[…] Yes, yes. I see. Because, no, the real trouble with all that stuff out at Wembley was that we were still in the clutches of the awful union problems and it was unbelievable because of course theoretically I should have been a union member. To Equity? Well, of something.&nbs[…]
[…] producer/director section. I was involved very actively with the producer/director’s unit of the ACTT. I was a very active member of the union. So what I’m going to tell you… I have to tell you that before what I’m going to tell you. I went from Pinewood, we went from Pinewo[…]
[…]rsonally, the only time I methim was when we came here to, you know, interview him for the GDR.[10:00]That’s right, yes that’s right. Were you in the union before then?Oh at that time...Dou you still...?Yes it was the... How’s it going? The GDR, German Democratic Republic.Oh yes.And they weren’t rec[…]
Paddy O’Gorman (PO)Union (ACTT) Laboratories (Technicolor)BECTU No.257Interviewer: Alan Sapper (AS)Date 31/07/921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:05:45 Introductions; born in Tipperary educated by the Christian Brothers; lived in Tipperary until he was 18 when he joined the Irish Army in 1936; one of […]
[…], but he wasn't offering my any more, so I was getting, presumably, whatever the rate was.Alan Lawson: Uh hmm.David Prosser: Oh, and I had joined the Union in 1943, after I'd returned to Movietone, because prior to that we didn't...nobody at Movietone belonged to the Union at all. And we all joined […]
[…]mething.And it’s especially going to be difficult to maintain when the closed shop is no longer legal. It will cause problems. Sheila, you joined the union then at the time of Blue Max?Well, this was Bells of Hell.Bells of Hell, sorry, yes. The Bells of Hell.I can’t remember it now, w[…]
[…] Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of […]
[…] longer legal. It will cause problems. Sheila, you joined the union then at the time of Blue Max? Well, this […]
[…]ople did you come across at that time? I suppose you knew Arnold Ridley who wrote 'The Ghost Train'?Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of Bath! [laughs]Rodney Giesler: Oh was he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I never actually worked with him but occa[…]
