Search Results for: Bomber Harris. BBC. Director. Baltic Film Festival First Prize (1994)

[…] College London, but = was quite a good producer - director. And = wanted to take that path, and in fact […]

[…]me burial sequences of a film that Darryl Zanuck was making in Hollywood called a Yank in the RAF. And I went to Prestwick, and I had a Hudson Hudson bomber, and I was in charge of a dozen Spitfires. I had a squadron of Spitfires at my disposal, except that when they Whether was a flap of course the[…]

[…]ibly upset I was going to be wireless operator and this was about the Battle of Britain time and we're losing you know a lot of aircraft and a lot of bombers and I thought can't fancy being in the back of an aircraft in the tail with somebody's front flying so extreme four weeks later we're still on[…]

[…]st crossed on all this. And we felt that it should be this kind of, there was some possibility that it was possible occasionally to get film shown on BBC. And he was aware of this, but he wouldn't push it at all. I said, Look, let's just show. It wasn't given on someone like this. And I want to show[…]

[…] went with Harry hooker as my assistant and the director was David Villiers, who was ex Air Force. He had a rather remarkable story to when he was in Bomber Command. He was a pilot. And the attrition, the loss of Bomber Command pilots was so appalling that they made him a Wing Commander, I think it […]

[…]ow Zita was the woman who flew Vivian Van Damm’s plane, they had a little plane, a tiny little Moth – it was a de Havilland Moth and she used to be a bomber pilot during the war, a ferry pilot, she was a good thing. “I’m sending the plane it’ll be there tomorrow to bring you back.” So, we’d done our[…]

[…] first went there. So...DS: ‘36/37.The end of the thirties.Daphne Shadwell Page 6JPH: ’37?DS: I think ’37 we went to London.JPH: Joined the BBC.DS: Yes.Was it disruptive for a child to be in that kind of ever changing and somewhat unstable environment?DS: Well, I suppose it was educational[…]

[…]ospital. And it was I think, just about the time that they moved into that that I joined them, I persuaded them to give me a job as a as an assistant director. Because I I'm, I don't think I've worked for them at all before that. It was when they started at Cleveland street that I went to work for t[…]

[…]ey Giesler: RHR Productions. He was once part of the Film Producers' Guild, but now he had his own set up in Wells Street with Mickie Barden and Mary Harris. This was a film for the Atomic Energy Authority and the films officer there was Bill Ackroyd, formerly Coal Board. And he knew me. Knew my fil[…]

[…] set up in Wells Street with Mickie Barden and Mary Harris. This was a film for the Atomic Energy Authority and […]