[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]es.Roy Fowler 13:22 This was the wartime pooling arrangement, yes,Speaker 1 13:24 but that you did the job. So if there was a naval job, then path you got it. If they couldn't send anybody, then got anybody, then they'd ask one the other companies to do it for so you didn't, […]
[…]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[…]
[…] - Gaumont British newsreel cameraman 1940s - War correspondent - Naval correspondent, HMS Valient, HMAS Australia. Sinking of HMS Barham […]
[…]he Admiralty he had one guy posted him absolute loon a real lunatic and any man posted this kind of a vessel had to have had some sort of pre pre-war naval experience merchant navy or whatever so he got hold of this guy and he said I know you must have had some sort of training before you got here a[…]
[…]ll the gear and that sort of thing. So I was introduced to the two padres in the wardroom where we got half canned actually! That was the start of my naval career! Anyway, he soon found out what was what, and I had quite a few gins with these people as I said, and I asked to go and see the captain w[…]
[…]hese lovely girls. Mark was doing this was a great part of the business to story. But they're all true. There was this girl and she was the wife of a naval man who was stationed in Singapore. And so I got around, she talked to john, she got the job. And she was Virginia double and we made the pitch […]
