[…]t three and a half years I was in Aden time of me life What Speaker 1 14:24 What was Air Force doing in Aden and protecting the Suez Canal,Speaker 1 15:13 the Gulf of Aden the route toRoy Fowler 15:16 India, I suppose, and tell me the wartime service was it v[…]
[…]advantage of this arrangement, besides the financial well known was able to offer very wide selection of films, travel to shipping, freight handling, canal crews and so on, and supply attractive package programs. That was the basis of the argument that we could put on a complete transport program. T[…]
[…]he French Embassy which is a beautiful, I don't know if it is marble, but it looks like a marble building looking out onto the river going by and the Canal comes up to the side. And they must have hated us when we were there, we were quite a novelty in Ottawa, because I don’t know if we actually wor[…]
[…]ening that was on, on on terra firma nature, that was really straight from the studio, and that was on the on the barges and things up in the various canals of England that was interesting, interesting, if only as an excuse to escape from the Blitz in London because I lived in 100 the time story doc[…]
[…]d respect, admire for what they've been through the achievements and to come in with the lights on. But they most heavily defended German area on the canals, but all the anti air, with all the aircraft and the aircraft guns waiting for it. As you know, 16 were shot down. They were very braveSpeaker […]
[…]and we realised, the pilot and myself that there were no sign of any of our troops and there were still German sentries on the bridges across a11 the canals and things and although they didn't attempt to fire on us we hadn't got enough fuel to go back so we had to carry on and we flew right at N and[…]
[…]y Mander: You shot one on railway signalling! [laughs]Sidney Cole: John Sherman talking there!Kay Mander: And there was one on "How do the locks on a canal work?", 'Railway Signalling', 'How do the patterns get onto fabrics?'... They were very interesting anyway.JS: They were great fun to do. I reme[…]
[…]much! [Laughter] But mostly it was healthy and lovelySC: Can you say just for the record where was that shot?DM: Oh Stockers Farm, Rickmansworth. The canal, that was lovely SC: And the house, we used the house didn't we.DM: Mm. Another series I loved was Born Free in KenyaSC: Oh yes d[…]
[…]ey had to make quota films here then from 1927Unknown Speaker 9:30 and they picked on that area because they were told, because there's a canal at the back of the studio, there'd always be a fog, and they wanted to prove that they couldn't make films in England. So when Sir Michael Balka[…]
[…]sang, and for the first time, you know, looked as though my life might sometime get back to normal. Then darling old Charlie Crichton went off up the canals on painted painted boats, and that had somebody I don't even remember Robert Griffiths, and I do remember dear Jenny Laird. Then we did somethi[…]
