[…]ixie And Pixie was going to drive to Canada where her brother was Chief Flying Instructor at Kingston Ontario where there was...the RAF were training naval pilots. [Coughs] And she was going to see him. So I said right, can I come with you? And she said "sure" and so I drove her, and Edward, her son[…]
[…]these things and are in enormous danger.Roy Fowler: Albert RN. Anything particular?Robert Beatty: Not really. The technical guy on that, he was an ex-naval guy, he was supposed to be there advising them technically, and who was the director, Lewis Gilbert, he used to play tricks on this guy. He'd sa[…]
[…]oss from bath to Weymouth, oh yes, and that was when one of the unit managers played a dirty trick on me. I had to give a contract to a number of the naval personnel who were going to appear. They weren't really doing very much. They weren't acting. They weren't being directed, but they were going a[…]
[…]inute segment or straight up with the hour segment, you know on the hour and the clocks were controlled, control room clocks were controlled from the Naval Observatory and they were often 2 or 3 seconds out and they would correct themselves on the hour and they might catch you napping, see if you we[…]
[…]h your extensive knowledge of warfare, of course? DM: So that made me angry, so I said ‘Alright I will.’ So I asked for Jane’s Fighting Ships, a naval adviser, an atlas, and some newspapers for the period and I did it. I can’t remember a bit about it now. SC: Pat Kirwan must have been anno[…]
[…] Films Dinah Sheridan in one.Moved to British Council . 1941 Naval Film Unit making B & W documentaries on Navy. Absorbed into […]
