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[…]ted night bombing and wanted to be a fighter and shoot them down and found myself flying like bombers. I complained bitterly, and had a weekend under open arrest. When my squadron leader said, Well, I'm fine, it's up to you. You either have a gun career as a bomber pilot, destroying those horrible p[…]

[…]ded someone to pull the focus because the cameraman used to do it himself, very often looking through the film, because the cameras in those days had open back gates, the Debries and the Eckerts. But they couldn't do that when they went to backed stock, sound. So I was very lucky. These two things c[…]

[…] said, Come down and deal with Percy. I've got to reload some film. We must have some mags reloaded. And he's banging on the door, shouting that if I open the door, He'll murder me.Unknown Speaker  22:55  And so I went down there before opening the door, managed to calm him down. Then I op[…]

[…]d the idea was the war was coming to an end and they wanted soldiers to have an idea that science wasn't totally occupied with producing weapons. The opening had bombs and things and then we had someone sitting at a desk and when he presed a button for beer it filled up and he pressed another for ci[…]

[…]nbsp;No poetry. I was shy. Were you i was the shyest creature in the world, but I well, I did join in. Yes, that was the first time I never joined in openly. But I always liked dressing up. So when there was the family there, I would disappear with my cousins. We'd raid their wardrobe, and suddenly […]

[…]And I since I got married, down there, and had something to do with the professional theatre, in that I tried to sort of when it closed, I tried to reopen it as a as a sensible theatre and we did manage to reopen it, I sort of stayed down there. And I've always thought to myself, the only thing I re[…]

[…]ed because it gave all sorts of opportunities to get sound quickly onto locations out again. So as it was new, I was going out with it. And was it to Open City no trying to think they were based on Shepperton the company but Dennis Mitchell worked from his home in Hampstead. But later, of course, a […]