Search Results for: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama (1974)

[…]rector of Public Relations there and he took on Kurt Lewin hack as a films officer although they had no film production capacity or anything but they were getti[…]

[…]to an OCTU at Dunbar.Taylor/Peet: This was the winter of '39.Denis Forman: Winter of '39-'40 and passed out of that and got to the Argylls, became an Officerin the Argylls, that was when I started to work, I was determined to be a top class Infantry Soldierand every single manual I learnt by heart, […]

[…] and they wanted skilled technicians. I did explain to him I'm going for my medical tomorrow. so he said when you've had y our medical you say to the officer you're to be reserved for the Army Film Unit as a cinematographer which I did. The bloke almost went puce in the face. He said we don't want c[…]

[…]kePB-C = Philip Bonham-CarterPhilip Bonham-Carter: My name is Philip Bonham-Carter. The date today is the 5th October2018. I was born in – at the end of the war, in 1945. Darrol Blake: Where? PB-C:  I was actually born in Gerards Cross in Buckinghamshire. My parents at that stage, rig[…]

[…]ou're doing, you won't get any work."" So I said, "How does that apply to me?" So he said, "Well we want to get this guild on the go and we want some officers of the guild and we want you for instance perhaps to look after the regalia and all that sort of stuff." They had big things they'd march wit[…]

[…]Side 1 Recorded 16.08.93 The copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. Joyce Robinson  0:02  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU  History Project.The name of the interviewee is Lois Singer. Her last discipline and grade is L 18.[…]

[…] of sustained me for a while. But obviously I wanted to get into the war effort somewhere. And I says I obviously quite obvious camouflage camouflage officer. So So did the running way he was I went down to see him down in somebody's beautiful house beautiful garden. He was the officer in charge. no[…]

[…] you let us put up, put your name in for this, he said, and you'll be a sergeant before you know where you are. And he was dead, right? I was a pilot officer before I knew where I was. You see Derek twist and Teddy Bear were forming the Royal Air Force Film Unit.Unknown Speaker  23:34  And[…]