[…]...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 […]
[…] 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:[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]s previous history, as far as I know it, was that he made a number of films for the cinema, silent films, on reconstructions of great battles, or, or naval events, I'm a little hazy, I remember one was Zeebrugge, First World War events. And he had his own company called British Films, and that's how[…]
[…] That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and […]
[…] your qualifications. You don't want to be a dressed up Naval Film Unit...?" I said, "No, I certainly don't!" So he said, […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
