[…]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[…]
[…] the studio during the duration of the film because the bombers were dropping, this is now 1941, just in case […]
[…] first met my third husband, who was an assistant director, you know, we were asked to stay at the studio during the duration of the film because the bombers were dropping, this is now 1941, just in case one of us got bumped off and they’d have to start the film all over again so, I tell the story o[…]
[…] behind the Bren gun - a parachute or a dive- bomber or what have you, Messerschmitt 109, he would have […]
[…]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[…]
[…]f this little hobby of mine with radio sets and things I thought well you know, I'll just write and I wrote and I asked, I didn't know anybody at the BBC. I never said to my parents or anything. And I said, have you got any jobs for junior engineers? That's how I put it, I thought, well, that sounds[…]
[…]taying on, which was a novel by Paul Scott, one of the series, the first, probably of the jewel in the crown books he did. It had Silvio naritzano As director. The producer was arranged and it was shot in Simla, in India.Speaker 2 32:35 We had a main lake, Granada crew. The electricians […]
[…] Word – part of Elstree complex.17 32:20...could hear [Inaudible] going backwards...19 36:00‘Unbong Chappie’? Spelling/Doubtful Word – Film director.22 40:12‘Bullham’s’? Yard Spelling/Doubtful Word – part of Elstree complex.Tape 1 Side B 27 04:30Sue ‘Arandale‘? Spelling/Doubtful […]
[…]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[…]
[…]p;7:05 Well, James James wrote the comments for the film on East Africa. James wrote the commentary for me. And he got us off a party line from BBC. But he talked to me an awful lot about what I'd seen and what I thought, you know, how have you actually sort of struck me as somebody who's neve[…]
