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[…]d in a gunnery training for the Navy. Sometimes we were also shooting model aircraft assimilating attacks by either Japanese. Torpedo and bombing aircraft or the German&n[…]

[…]ts there. And as I say that so I went on to see my friend in the projection room there. And my friend, at any time, was going to be called up for the RAF. So this Chief  projectionist at the Metropole said, What would you like a job here? So, so well I dunno Its a very, very big cinema. I said […]

[…] be doing something better than that." So I saw an advert for a firm in Guildford called CP Projections. And they supplied staff and equipment to the RAF stations. Because there was a problem at the beginning of the war, when people were taken away from home for the first time - terribly homesick. A[…]

[…]d: So what were you actually doing? What was your job there when you first started those first few weeks?Peggy Gick: Well actually of course I was a draftsman. Most of the time I was...I seem to remember at one time I was busy popping tulips into some grassy bank for Lorna's bower! [Laughs.] I was d[…]

[…]ritish Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by John Maxwell. And I think at that time the Associated British had a rather large overdraft with the Midland Bank and I think you'll find it was something in the nature of three quarters of a million pounds, which of course today would b[…]

[…]is: And a man named Coleman was - he always said, "Now I want you to get a bread and butter negative," that we took. He said, "I don't want any arty-crafty stuff, I want a bread and butter negative"![Laughter]Leonard Harris: And of course we used glass plates you know, and you'd have to take the neg[…]

[…]nt we did that, the English sub-lieutenant, the English still-photographer, and myself, all agreed that this was plain madness from the point of... [traffic noise] (do you want the window shut?)Alan Lawson: (No, that's all right, no no.)David Prosser: Plain madness, from the point of view of intelli[…]

[…], which is a film starring Dana Andrews Jeanne crane. Derek fall. Anyway, Tony succumb to an accident that was a that was the camera was mounted on a raft on the Zambezi and was tethered by literally got a photograph by two ropes. Basically, our cameraman was on there and Tony was on there. And the […]

[…]hing. Oh, I was thrilled to pieces! And even my Father, who thought it was a bit 'dicey' the whole thing, he was quite sure I was in the white slave traffic when I got thirty-two and sixpence! That huge sum! And he didn't know what I had to do for it, all the various things, all the... I'd worked ha[…]

[…]e day, you know, where I could find some habitation to find out where I was at that moment, actually, a motorcycle suddenly appeared with somebody in RAF uniform, and also another RAF chap behind, actually with a gun in his hand. And I now actually escorted to a decent hut that was after I hadn't no[…]