[…]ear, rang up Popa Horton the next day and he said as soon as you're got your regimental number you're to get in touch with me, which I did. I'd been drafted to the Royal Engineers Chemical Warfare. My base was to be Barton Stacy which isn't far from Handover, 1 think Long Parish was the actual addre[…]
[…] they wanted, it would be a good idea if the RAF Film Unit and the Army Film Unit joined forces and we […]
[…]ve have a retrospective on on on on the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marsh[…]
[…]ause we finished that. And it may have been practical to get the services together. We were the civilian arm because the army had a film unit and the RAF had a film unit and they were there and then we will move to correspondingly with the my memory or just take it strictly as my memory. There was n[…]
[…] printed a limited number so they were hard to come by, so I did deals with newspaper shops and various others around that area right down as far as Trafalgar Square almost: “I’ll give you a couple of these papers if you let me have a few cigarettes”, which they did. And one of my best customers was[…]
[…]s a direct and always crew on this table the lights go out back.SPEAKER: M2It might be time to talk about the unions first of all was there a lot of graft at the studio.SPEAKER: M8In what respect. You mentioned kickbacks for the.SPEAKER: M9Abuses of the system materials disappearing.SPEAKER: M16Ther[…]
[…]e newsreel were, in order of priority, Dick Cawston, undoubtedly, and then Dennis Edwards. Dennis was a marvellous Film Editor, chap out of the RAF, he knew what he was doing. He got on with it. He was quick, lightening quick, and a most wonderful companion, most terrific colleague[…]
[…] rang up, that's right, he'd got some work for the RAF to do scenic backgrounds for a thing called [the […]
[…]e whole time, even when we moved to Pinewood whichwas the beginning. After that we moved to Curzon St, after that we allmoved to Pinewood to join the RAF and Crown Film Unit. I won't detailanything about that, I, will go back to it. Then I got demobbed. Before Igot demobbed, we had had Muir Mathieso[…]
[…] said, "Jesus Christ, that's great!" And when they cut, the RAF man standing with us said, "I don't know if […]
