[…]in there for about four months, six months, so we are posting you to Bury St Edmunds. There’s an ex-wartime airfield there called Chedburgh – Halifax bombers.” I said “Well that’s all right. What goes on there then?” He said “well, you’re going in there as liaison. There’s only twenty-six English ai[…]
[…]es you then worked on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Peter Hall, which I believe was one of his early films… obviously being a theatre director. As a theatre director, how did Peter, sort of, approach that film? And were there any special instructions …PS: Yes, it was a tri[…]
[…]rage of aircraft far I mean, aircraft was never very accurate but if we could put up a barrage at a certain height which the plane for flying the low bombers or flying was not anything else it was a deterrent, you know. And so, having daggy and being on the radar said why quite often used to go to a[…]
[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]
[…]ll,Richard Marden 43:01 I would be with Dick Storey I was Paul Kruger andAlan Legard 43:07 I could edit it. He was he was the director. No,Richard Marden 43:11 I'm not sure what he did that. I mean, we just used to see each other regularly.Inever quite knew what&n[…]
[…] Speaker 1:44 Anyway, anyhow,Edward Williams 1:46 but anyhow, he had also got he changed. I mean, during the war, he became a bomber pilot, I think, and, you know, stopping touches. And anyhow, yeah, he went to chemo after World afterwards and as a as a as an assistance he di[…]
[…]ve when I've just graduated but I met a big army air corp guy, I was saying my ambition was to go to Hollywood. And he said "I'm going in a Liberator Bomber tomorrow and I'll take you." because he was going to a place 60 miles in the desert, it was right in the middle of the St Andreas fault and he […]
[…] That's right. I remember being there and seeingRoy Fowler: There was the Battle of Britain and then the night raidsf.Maurice Carter: And the Italian bombers came over so low we could actually see themarkings and know they were Italian. They came sweeping over the studio. It was theonly raid the Ita[…]
[…]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[…]
