[…]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[…]
[…]tone cold water in the morning, so it was warmed.There was a terrible accident on that film, we were shooting a scene of an explosion on a gun, a big naval gun. And the way we shot it was to shoot the men working on the big gun and then stop and the whole gun was then destroyed and twisted metal and[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
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[…]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[…]
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[…] "I've just had Owen Rutter who is a very famous Naval historian... he's just come in here and wants us […]
[…]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[…]
