Dundee Evening Telegraph (20/Apr/1938) - New Film Help Up By Strike

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• article: New Film Help Up By Strike
• newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph (20/Apr/1938)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Dame May Whitty, Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, Islington Studios, London, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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New Film Help Up By Strike

Work on the British film, "Lost Lady," at the Gainsborough Film Studios, Islington, London, was again at a standstill today because of the strike of electricians and operators.

Mr Alfred Hitchcock is directing the film and the cast includes Dame May Whitty, Miss Margaret Lockwood, Mr Michael Redgrave and Mr Paul Lukas.

The strike was called yesterday by the Electrical Trades Union in support of the cinematograph projectionists who have ceased work in London and the provinces.

Forty electricians are on strike at the Islington Studios and another 20 at the Gaumont British Studios at Shepherd's Bush, where some of the scenes in "Lost Lady" are being made. Only those electricians who have contracts have remained at work with the consent of the E.T.U.

Pickets were posted outside the Gains borough Studios at Islington today.

As a result of the dispute a number of clerks and other employees have had to be stood off. Altogether nearly 200 people, including the strikers, are affected.