[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]Now we needed a shot of Paris from eight miles up. So what happened was we managed to get a mosquito aircraft, one of those wonderful wartime fighter bombers made entirely of wood, I think. And we took a cameraman called Peter Newberg and Tony square, and they flew over Paris, I don't think they wer[…]
[…]Now we needed a shot of Paris from eight miles up. So what happened was we managed to get a mosquito aircraft, one of those wonderful wartime fighter bombers made entirely of wood, I think. And we took a cameraman called Peter Newberg and Tony square, and they flew over Paris, I don't think they wer[…]
[…]couragement by seeing us there [chuckles] in case paratroopers dropped. But I learnt afterwards that - me behind the Bren gun - a parachute or a dive-bomber or what have you, Messerschmitt 109, he would have fired long before he came into the range of my Bren gun! [Laughs]Alan Lawson: [laughs]Leonar[…]
[…]ame, TheYoung Generation. And we did 3 specials at Burns, one was with Georgia Brown, one was with Bassey I think and one was with somebody like Rolf Harris. But the Georgia Brown, we stopped at Copenhagen, we'd chartered an aeroplane becausethere were so many of us and the plane had broken down and[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n on the Board for Anne. To wind right back, the Director of the IWM at the time I joined it was a man called Dr Noble Frankland, who had been in RAF Bomber Command as a navigator during the war and had then gone back. He’d interrupted his academic career to fight. He went back to Oxford, and became[…]
