[…]ds, I had to borrow that and then pay it back later.Jim Connock : Tell me, at what stage - you were in that, so for... At what point did you join the union? Because Shepherd's Bush was really, they didn't encourage you to be in the union, they didn't necessarily discourage you but...Kitty Wood : Wel[…]
[…] Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of […]
[…]ion-mixing really and then a lot of playing out because we recorded all the programmes on half-inch tape and then they were played out to the Student Union at lunchtime so we had to do a kind of switch-over. Somebody had to go to the Union and switch all the monitors on and then somebody had to do a[…]
[…] and the prettiest girls would come up to you and want to talk and so on and so on, and they devise the holiday on these lines. However, the American union has toughened and in the last 10 years of my career, it became impossible to take British technicians to America to shoot a documentary film, th[…]
[…]ople did you come across at that time? I suppose you knew Arnold Ridley who wrote 'The Ghost Train'?Dicky Leeman: Well I knew him because I'm a Rugby Union fanatic and he was at one time president of Bath! [laughs]Rodney Giesler: Oh was he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I never actually worked with him but occa[…]
[…]employed me. I did it for 500 year or something, it was very little.But it was interesting also that in those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this sort of odd job film Unit up in Wakefield, well they didn’t mind if there was a Richard Sutclif[…]
[…]ised.You see, what happened in every respect of that, fancy that, a man having the cheek to hit him in the [???], the vice-resident of the u-, of the union, my goodness. He was not hurt because he got plenty of flesh all round, you know. But there was this [???] And my goodness, that scene went up a[…]
[…] started me at er... because he said "You in the Union?" I said, "No." He said, "Well, you are now!" […]
[…] those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this […]
[…]as taken out of his hands with national agreements affecting pretty well everybody but Roy wanted, really, a tight deal whenever he could get it. The Unions, on the other hand, I always thought it at the time, I could understand it but I always thought at the time, a little foolish because they want[…]
