[…]ftenant acting temporary probationary sub left and RNVR and sent off to Greenwich for a so called knife and fork course gentlemen as well as an officer and had a very pleasant and interesting three or four weeks there. By then, on the family side of the course, john has been been born in in Ma[…]
[…]nbsp;And Anthony Craxton? Tony Craxton who became a ... John P. Hamilton 14:15 Yes. Who became an establishment officer eventually. John Ammonds 14:19 But he was a director of coronations and things, not too frequent but something like[…]
[…] lamps, the old Mole Richardson lamps and um... a petty officer as a spark, and we were just the three […]
[…]a, which we called 'The Iron Lung', and er...one camera. That was the film unit, and about ten lamps, the old Mole Richardson lamps and um... a petty officer as a spark, and we were just the three of us on the camera; it was Gordon Dines, cameraman and... operating, Paul focussing, and me doing load[…]
[…]ere were a lot of people talking on telephones and that sort of thing. So the routine was that one went to the National Fire Service, and they said, "Officer So and So is going to look after you." So Officer So and So took you around and you went to various fire stations and you studied how they wor[…]
[…]ute. I'd got to know a lot of people connected with the institute because I was involved with the Federation of Film societies. I was their publicity officer at the age of 19. That was probably our first paid job was it.SPEAKER: M15I don't believe I was paid but Margaret Hancock was in charge of tha[…]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
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me in on the rehearsals. He had the, all the actors who were going to be in the officers’ mess, all kind of living down, they didn’t stay together, I mean they didn’t live at night, but they spent days together for, a week or two […]
[…]t was immediately, because it was RAF and there were these American ones underneath, little gold ones, and he thought I was impersonating an American officer. And I explained it to him, and he said take that off and put that there, you're not wearing American wings under British wings. Anyway we wen[…]
[…]was was to be in uniform. You know, it wasn't so bad in the last war. And his father was a very interesting man, because he was, he was a had been an officer in the U lands.Unknown Speaker 5:35 His he was a baronUnknown Speaker 5:37 in his own right. His father was a, some so[…]
