[…]st paid by the hour, were they?Charles Wilder: That's right, they were all paid by the hour, and electricians, the electricians used to belong to two unions I remember, ETU and NATKE. And I remember there was a strike by ETU and they brought in all the NATKE electricians. But it gradually developed […]
[…]oy Fowler: Clearly an interesting time and place to be, indeed.Norman Fisher: Yes indeed it was.Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union?Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join anyway, not then.Roy Fowler: We'll come onto the union later, I wondered if since Ralph was there w[…]
[…] there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ; Millennium Guild in […]
[…] was. Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union? Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join […]
[…]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[…]
[…]as. Electroniccameras were frowned upon at the first. I mean, we had a hell of a job, we had the cameras butwe weren't allowed to use them because of Union implications - they just did not want us to train.They were protecting the film camera men and the film crews - protecting their jobs. In the en[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]unity to work in side by side with an experienced person picking out what he or she does. There are a numbers as we know, I guess you do too, for the union of young directors, also acting as their own cameraman, or their own camera operator. And again, that means that the experience, camera operator[…]
[…]s for brothers and sisters. And it was in this Gymnasium that he met Alexander Korda who was in a parallel form. My father was standing for Student's Union and he found somebody was working against him and that turned out to be Alexander Korda, of course the family name was Kelner. They became the v[…]
[…];kind of salary that people these days get. And it's not a question of the Union or anything of that. It's just that in broadcasting the money wasn't available&[…]
