[…]ent, and he realized that everybody had got a category. He knew exactly what everybody should be doing and how much they should be earning. It was so naval, wasn't it that he went for it, hook line and bloody singer. And he was there after, you know, that was in the Waldorf, yeah, a bloody really pr[…]
[…];been something all the British troops on board and there was smoke filling the naval trucks moving down the docks. There was some French people shaking their fists&[…]
[…]Oh, tell us about that.Well, on Longest Day I was the only production person in England at all and I had also with me a military adviser, a naval adviser, and Maude Spector doing the casting, and then we did everything. Anyway, we borrowed a tank from the British Army in Germany, naturally[…]
[…]nbsp; The thing is that I knew that at certain points I had to direct myself into a certain line and what I was directing myself towards was the Naval Film Unit on Whale Island.                   &nbs[…]
[…]nd they appointed achap, I mean he wasn’t....Q Just to get this correct. Anybody that was in the service film unit - that would be army - was there a naval...A A naval film unit yes, Max Anderson was in the navel film unit.Q They automatically got a union....A That’s right, they were all -[…]
[…]cipline of being in one of the forces. Meanwhile, I had volunteered to go in the Fleet Air Arm and wanted to go in stream to become a pilot you know, naval pilot. And eventually after some months after moving around from from Warrington to sort of scape das and then through Devonport and various thi[…]
[…]  well, we were my crew I worked with allocated crochet with with a character called head of department called Golden diamonds. They were all ex naval men. You know, it's from watch RM Gordon was left handed commander in the film department as a Navy. And so we were they were all good, good gro[…]
[…]alia. We all met there, and then I went up to Hong Kong. Paul went to Japan, I think. We all scattered all over the place.Alan Lawson: ...Because the Naval film unit was very secretive reallyCyril Page: Well, yes [Laughs] We had that song [sings] "We three, we're not alone!..." - well that was it, a[…]
[…]only a few weeks and then was shipped out to the Middle East to join the navy as a correspondent, the Eastern Med fleet at Alexandria, and so I was a naval war correspondent from there on. One of the things you could do as a war correspondent, you could interchange your services, you could do a bit […]
[…]ace you had to go to, somewhere in Ealing off Eaton Rise and that,they said, you know, ‘What do you want to do’? I said ‘Well I'd like to go into the Naval Film Unit because I'm making films and everything else’. Well Ealing, at thattime, they didn't have anybody, you know, so they applied for me to[…]
