[…]er's elder brother had come over to England to see the grave of his son, who was also in he was in the New Zealand Air Force had come over here was a bomber pilot and crashed on on takeoff at a station somewhere in Oxford, and was buried in our local churches St. Peter's tankersley. And he came over[…]
[…]: which I suppose he did with his tongue in his cheek like Henry.CC: I don’t think that was tongue in cheek. I think Alex really should have stayed a director.SC: Tell me about Elephant Boy. I remember you telling stories about Zolly trying to get as many pieces of elephants, in the cutting round sc[…]
[…]mething went wrong, you see, so the second one which, and that was the one which, the first one which was all right, was me alone. So I was the first director. Tim Aymes  18:54  Films still exist, Stanley Watkins  18:57  I don't suppose so. No, I had[…]
[…]d and he kept us really at it andthe chap called Anstey - Philip Anstey, he was one of the programme directors and he came outon various stories as a director. After the war I left them and went, as I say, to Universal Newsand then Gaumont British and eventually BBC, ITN.Q Can I pick you up on some […]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…]cal school then, in Holborn. And then I was evacuated for a couple of weeks. We got bombed out while I was evacuated down in Kent. A marauding German bomber just dropped some bombs, for fun I think. I saw a light-DB: Where you were in Kent? PM: In Kent. I was sleeping in a bed with two other bo[…]
[…]hen he left Frank Clark [ph] took over. There was another trainee alongside me, called Pam Bosworth, who I think I’ve seen her name on credits for theBBC. I was there about a year. I got restless because there was nothing I could do there beyond what I was doing and it was a sort of very early primi[…]
[…]commissioned up until then, of course, the RAF was still flying Lancaster's. They got me to yours and vampires, a few jet planes, but they got no jet bombers. And of course, the threat from the Russia was immense at the time. And so the government commission these three, they were in competition wit[…]
