[…] member of the wartime documentary movement while working at the RAF’s film unit. Post-war, he enjoyed long stays in two […]
[…]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 […]