[…]ng derogatory to Harry's now heritage a very nice place now. But at the time it had more pubs per square foot than any other times it was enabled our naval base always had been and it was also an embarkation port. For the army going abroad during the war. So we would see at the time we used to see m[…]
[…]by MI5 and there was a lot of secrecy about making this film as there was about the subsequent film which I'm going to speak about and which we had a naval sentry, it's old hat now, posted in the projection box at all times when we ran the film. This is a little later, having done another two films […]
[…]ry is, and because of his wartime work, and father's work and whatnot, where they used to trade with Russia and some of the Baltic states, and he was Naval Intelligence in that area, Kodak took him on as a consultant released operations. So I used to meet him pretty regularly and quite quickly, as e[…]
[…] Technicolor crated up and sent to all parts of the world where there were naval establishments and air gunnery training was in progress then then after then af[…]
[…]is now the Queen Mother, called 'Britannia is a Woman'[?], er, and about two years later in '41, when I was a foreign correspondent with the Navy, or Naval correspondent, War correspondent, in the Middle East, um, I made my first ever ten or twenty, depending who you were dealing with....Alan Lawson[…]
[…] recovered I think at Scarborough, while it was being bombarded by the Germans at that time...Sidney Cole: Oh that was [?indecipherable] wasn't it? A naval bombardment?Charles Cooper: Naval bombardment, yes naval bombardment in 1917.Sidney Cole: Your brother had been in France had he?Charles Cooper:[…]
[…]mean they were even - the blokes were in putties and all that sort of thing, nothing was up-to-date at all! Anyway then they did get hold of a secret Naval film, that probably was it because it was a - we got it from the Navy, and in Technicolor, that was on 35mm. And that was afterwards...yeah that[…]
[…]ith him a very extrovert character who was First Assistant called Dicky Beville who'd been in the Navy in the First World War. And he had all the old Naval parlance and said, "Come on me hearties" and ... and all that sort of thing when anything had to be done, which is very good for morale because […]
[…] do it's own store...it did it's own catering, it didn't do it's own supplies or fuel or anything. That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his work took him around the various dockyard[…]
