[…]doesn't matter whether he's next in turn or not, the producer has him." Because there had been a strict rota before that. Roy Fowler: Andy, were unions a pain in the arse in the fifties and the sixties? They had been rather earlier hadn't they, in the forties, I think they achieved their maximu[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't […]
[…] a couple of years I became Vice President of the union. Roy Fowler: We mustn't get on to the ACT […]
[…]and...Roy Fowler: Well we haven't quite. One final thing we haven't touched on - the arrival of ACT. You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't claim that, oh no.Roy Fowler: Oh I thought you were when you mentioned - when you tal[…]
[…]. If that's how you know.SPEAKER: M2No I couldn't get a ticket all through them. That was now my big problem because out now I was out of work had no union card and no prospects. I knew nobody at all. Not a soul so I didn't know what to do and I was thinking I'm gonna have to creep back to Boston ag[…]
[…] "Yes, that’s alright, you can draw" Which is all I wanted to do, and design and so forth and they were in a terrible state. This was before the ACTT Union and there was a long queue outside the workman's gate 24 hours a day. Everybody was working night and day, literally to try get anything out on […]
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