[…]iversal has a huge back lot and you can do a lot with it with a good Art Director, which we had. And...no, you notice it a bit. There's a rumour that United Artists, who never wanted to make it anyway, that they had destroyed the negative. But I've got a 16mm copy which I bought from them. They woul[…]
[…]I think it went.00.28.28NA : Do you remember many of those early Rank photographic sessions?CL: I was literally doing four sessions a day of contract artists and some were very difficult and some very easy. But the difficult ones turned out to be the most interesting ones. I can remember A.E. […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 403 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-02Interview Date: 1997-04-22Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Peggy GickTape 1, Side 1 John Legard: Now Peggy, perhaps you'd like to tell us a little bit about your early life?Peggy Gick: My father wa[…]
[…] was a railway goods yard coupler and uncoupler of shunting waggons. Ronald Blythe's dad was our local copper and David Armstrong's dad was our local United Dairies milkman. We all, thanks to this council school, got scholarships to a local Grammar School. Now that is what down our street – I mean C[…]
[…]ot of the trainees were going on for their next stage of training - elementary flying training – to Canada under the Empire Training Scheme or to the United States quite a lot of them went to, and others went down to Rhodesia, but it all meant they had to go in those days by ship and so it really de[…]
[…]the cold passage from the hot thing and then back into the hot studio. It was quite easy for you to catch a cold and one had to do this about calling artists on the set. Sometimes you even go down to the telephone room to call the crowd artists on to the set because they had a the microph[…]
[…] his head down and burst into tears and then come up again and said 'It's still going on'. Of course we would be ploughing on with our script and the artists would be going on, and it would still go on. There was a lot of that. I can't remember the director who was one camera. He used to have all hi[…]
[…] shouted down by the clack, that didn't agree with Mr. Knight, and it was as if it was all the reports were that at the end of the day it was carried united. Of course it was everybody else walked out in disgust, and it was a complete takeover of the Democratic Now you may say that's what democracy […]
[…]was about afterwards, I can remember Jimmy Edwards being asked that once on television, when equity were on strike and he was chairman of the variety artists Federation and a known Tory and the the BBC chap saying to him, What do you think of equity being on strike? Mr. Edwards, and Jimmy Edwards sa[…]
