[…]en the novel came out because it had been disclosed anyway. Yes. So that I suppose covers I think we covered in the last interview. The fact that the naval commander, what's his What was his name, the star a different way. Had to grow a beard as well as his moustache. I think we covered that, didn't[…]
[…]h and see this thing. And I thought, well, you know, I've done all my training, I was a completely I become completely Navy eyes. You know, I've been naval discipline and everything. And I've made up my mind, I wasn't gonna be a filmmaker. I was gonna be a sailor, you know. So anyway, I went down th[…]
[…]body was standing to attention and saluting all over the place and I said to Matty “You mustn’t do that you know.” “Why, why?” I said “Well this is a naval centre and everybody is saluting you and everything.” And he was terribly upset, “I can’t take my uniform off just to go to lunch!” I was terrif[…]
[…]ore the war at Shell, at the shell Film Unit, which was the great technical Film Unit, and it had been diverted ontoUnknown Speaker 39:49 naval work during the war, what remained of the unit,Unknown Speaker 39:54 and was just coming back into its proper civilian status, which[…]
[…]...in the first place, I went in and Dal [Ian Dalrymple] called me and sort of looked at me and said, "I've just had Owen Rutter who is a very famous Naval historian... he's just come in here and wants us to make a film on the Battle of The Atlantic. And this has come from the Admiral in command of […]
[…] undertakers applying for additional petrol! And all I got - the man in charge was F. E. M. Beatley, who was a funny little man, I think he was an ex-naval gent. And he had these enormous very formal letter, a whole page of foolscap, and they were all identical, because we didn't have copying machin[…]
[…]e balls are coming to. So he saw some nice idea, typical Arthur. So in fact, we managed to get some wire netting, and there was Arthur me and the two Naval assistants stayed with us behind a bit of sort of chicken wire with three rows, each with 76 Japanese, each with a bucket of golf balls, and eac[…]
[…]y Fowler 0:07 Well before my time in a sense, but I remember the name of course ... Jonathan Balcon 0:11 Naval Kinema Corporation Roy Fowler 0:13 ... important yes and United Artists I think or was it was it not ... anyway an importa[…]
[…]as of any interest but I remember going to the palace the shows we've done on Prince Philip had been in the in the in the Pacific. And they've been a naval cameraman has shot a lot of material and we we put it together. It was my job to go and show it to the Prince Philip the at palace. And so I wen[…]
[…]vy, you see. And I didn't make 'The Silver Fleet' until years afterwards, I was taken out of my ship in fact.Roy Fowler: Before we go on to your Naval career and well, we'll say the outbreak of war, let me ask you about Emeric Pressburger. Presumably you met him on 'The Spy in Black'?Vernon Sew[…]
