Lord Lew Grade

[…] the world, they are amazing and they don't look at union rules, they work any hours if they love the […]

Charles Cooper

[…] remember his name, he became afterwards secretary of the metalworker's union, I don't know whether you would know his name? […]

Phil Windeatt

[…]orrect. All the technicians were paid. How was it funded? Erm, well there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection; Millennium Guild in New York. There’s a much more developed animal welfare movement in this country than in th[…]

Bernie Andrews

[…]ce they were edited in after… at that time… I think it was after six weeks – it may have been eight – but because of an agreement with the musician’s union over keeping of tapes… and of a combination of that, and the fact that the BBC wanted – for pop reasons, not for classical reasons – to recycle […]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]e had every intention of making films for television and it could have been successful. I understand that when he set the company up, he spoke to the unions including the general secretary of ACTT, Alan Sapper, who said 'No problem. Delighted. Fine. Great.' But unfortunately - here we go a[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]d when you come out of the Army, give me a ring and I'll see what I can do to help. I did give him a ring, but he had forgotten me. I met him through union business later on. The cinema was still following me, because I was then posted to London District Signal Squadron. It was my first qualified po[…]

Maurice Elvey

[…]alled Pennett-Elkington, who enabled me to form a thing called the Adelphi Play Society, which is all to do with the background I'm coming to - trade unions, etc. And Elkington... we took the little theatre which was in the Adelphi, a very famous little theatre. And, of course, you could hire it the[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]ians when you have recording sessions they don’t mess him about because they want to work on the next picture. You’ve still got this very out of date union system in the States, .. in a lot of the States. I suppose the majority of them, where you are working to union conditions that existed here twe[…]

Reg Sutton

[…]to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I became Vice President of the union.Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT yet. We'll take that separately. At Movietone did you have a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowl[…]
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