Roy Parkinson

[…] think about tomorrow's work. I'd go on the set two or three times, but providing all was going well by 10 o'clock that day was done.2. Locations and unionsRP: You always had all your movement orders to work out, if you were going on location, whether you were going abroad, or whether a daily locati[…]

Alan Izod

[…]re. I think. So. I, I caught the first available boat as soon as I was free was very shortly after my resignation from the COI. And I went out of the Union castle boats, the Stirling castle, Cape Town and then by train, up to Southern Rhodesia to Salisbury, which of course was the way of getting the[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]e director. Then I. started on my second film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one of the unions was weak the other two would help. Ealing was one of those studios. We were quite strong, NATKE was quite strong, ETU were not strong. In fact […]

Gordon McCallum

[…] when somebody actually volunteered that he wanted to join the union. And so that was it, I joined on the […]

Alan Lawson

[…] had a shirt which had been made out of a union Jack. This sort of extroverted character. Anyway we worked […]

Links & Resources

[…] websites and resources BECTU The UK’s media and entertainment trade union, covering broadcasting, film, independent production, theatre and the arts, leisure […]

Robin Walsh

[…]d a couple of awards because it's apart from journalism, the grid passion of my life. I have been made a life honoree, member of the Northern cricket union. And I have a blazer next door, which says I'm a former president of the Irish cricket union.Unknown Speaker  2:06  When we met the fi[…]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]ig iconic thing they were mounting, and so I worked on that for about three weeks, painting scenery, again as an assistant, apprenticed. And then the unions came along and said “Where is your card? Why are you working? It appears the film union card wasn’t all right at Covent Garden, so they booted […]

Taylor Downing

[…]oing to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Film Department. My very first boss was Anne Fleming (BEHP Interview[…]
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