[…]ed. Had a great driver and his assistant, Billy and Joe, two wonderful men. Very kind. They said “keep in this job, you’ve got a job for life. Strong union, get what we want, you know what I mean.” I have to say – the West End in those days was Hollywood. It was fantastic.McG: Why?HF: It was i[…]
[…] worked my way up to be in charge of the Cinema Division which covered all grades of Cinema employees except for management which had their own Trade Union at that time.Interviewer: I see. And how many years did that go on for? How long were you with NATKE? Barry Quinton: I was with N[…]
[…]wanted, and we did Villette together in 1969.A classic serial?A classic serial, yes, which was cursed from the start because there was a, there was a union disagreement and, and every single studio day the sets were late getting in so we got behind, you know, the whole time and that was very, very h[…]
[…]me, Blakely wasn't around Blakely, BlakelyBlakely, and Blakely , was Manchester led Butchers Manchester excellent moves about the Butchers bank union and I can't Who was it? Butchers in? There was somebody else because somebody once said to me that when Butchers decided that they wanted to mak[…]
[…]they made a film about Florence Nightingale COVID lady with a lab and I'd also like to 52 and that was the first time I actually got my ticket to the union. So I was unit manager and then a film called laughing and which was dreadful film absolutely dreadful. And the best part of it we went out to s[…]
[…]till production secretary? Pamela Mann-Francis 18:18 I was, I was both on that. I became unofficially, still with no union membership, I was desperately trying to get a union membership. I didn't get my union membership until after Bridge on the River Kwai, I think, […]
[…]ot this the Fairfield halls, and it actually won. It won a gold prize at the film festival and music was awesome. This is back in 1975. And not being union person. I didn't have quite the correct credit, as opposed to being a production assistant, I was an assistant to the producer, because that was[…]
