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[…]nd almost nonprofit. And I remember Henry Geddes was very, very pleased with it.Alan Lawson  37:01  As I remember, I knew I knew him in the RAF Film Unit. He was in the Film Unit.Noreen Ackland  37:08  Yes. Close. Yeah. No, that was that was a lot of fun that because it was a it […]

[…] during the war, he was doing some photography for the RAF or something, and the plane crashed and poor old […]

[…]n and all that kind of thing. Peter Sellers, God, Peter Sellers, Benny Hill, Graham Stark, all that crowd were going around the world entertaining in RAF camps. They were in RAF Gang Shows. So there was the Windmill because they all came out determined to get in the business. Harry Secombe had been […]

[…].He was a cameraman on that unit.Alan Lawson  30:49  Because I knew Harry before the war, and I knew hin during the war, when he was in the RAF film unitGerry Anstiss  30:55  always lovely stories he used to tell me about that. Very modern thing. Nice. I remember that. He was a s[…]

[…] And then they did a scene where Will Hay is cast adrift by the villains on board, they were doing a Captain Bligh thing. And he was cast adrift on a raft with the fat boy and old Moore Marriott. And he had to do that scene, "I'll have you hung for yard arm," all this business and things like that y[…]

[…] press. Whether in the form of the chief operator, the RAF flying overhead in a recruitment poster, there was still […]

[…]ost impossible to get to a county scholarship. So although I had three University places, I never actually went to university. I went I went into the RAF and signed on for an extra year. Because in today's national service, you you, you've got the job that happened to be needed at the time, so you m[…]