[…]documentaries. And a lot of the time we were servicing other people's films. And it, it didn't matter what we did, because we weren't bothered by the union. If I was initially employed as a dubbing theatre, projectionists, which is something you'd be very familiar with. And it was eye bliss. When I […]
[…]te of debt. And blue eyes got to university free. I got an exhibition, sub scholarship. And, and I blew it. I was running around enjoying life in the Union bar and chasing goals and everything. And my first year results showed it I thought I've let everybody down. And but subsequently, I was in a st[…]
[…]g happened to me was getting just back a bit so that I was working with Railton Oh, you may not know it's good Cameron and right. And he was a strong union mind. And of course, at this time, not everyone was in the union. You didn't have to be it was just really the beginnings of it. So I joined and[…]
[…]inter, the plasterers, the carpenters, stage hands and it was a friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t quite as rigid I think as the big studios in the union sense. Today it would be classed as left of Stalin I guess but in comparison to restrictions that used to be imposed it was not – it was j[…]
[…]have been so much better to put it in the studio and do it as you wanted to.I: Can I ask you, did you ever join the ACTT or did you join the BBC union?ED: No, I joined the ACTT.I: You joined ACTT?ED: Yes, it was about 1967.I: Do you remember who recruited you?ED: Yes, i[…]
[…]would go anywhere, I wish he'd have gone and photographed these things they wanted me to shoot in the caravan. He is still around, he became a strong union man I gather in Canada.Alan Lawson: Again what equipment was that, Mitchells presumablyFreddie Francis: No ArriflexesAlan Lawson: These were the[…]
[…]troud: This went on all the time you see, so that really got me, I'd got it again you see. So I thought, "Well sod it!" So I got on the 'phone to the union office - more-or-less to have a moan than anything else you know. And they said, "Well how about trying the studios?" I thought, "Gawd, big stuf[…]
