[…]d of dinner usually. Which suited me just fine, because I had other things to do. And actually, it was a wonderful time, it really was a traffic time and it was extremely interesting and they enchanting people. They were just lovely with wonderful manners and they were very nice to[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]y weapons without anything and it was really very frustrating and I was fed up with it. I was really lucky because I applied to be transferred to the RAF and they wouldn't let you. They had this extraordinary idea that you couldn't transfer to a junior service.KGY: Were you actual1y conscripted.CC: […]
[…] right, there wasn't a lot of discipline, perhaps, among the RAF people. They were given a lot of freedom I […]
[…]ing with glee, it was an absolutely wonderful shot, it really was a wonderful shot. And he said, "Jesus Christ, that's great!" And when they cut, the RAF man standing with us said, "I don't know if it matters but I could see the film." [Laughs] They hadn't shut the door of the camera! That was that![…]
[…] was brought out of the Civil Defence. But I worked with Mickey on a number of his pictures. I think we almost immediately went on to 'One of our Aircraft is Missing' with him.Alan Lawson : Again on the boom?Gordon McCallum : I was on the boom and C. C. Stevens was the mixer on all those Mickey pict[…]
[…] we were the right age-group. So we went to some RAF place and volunteered for that you see. I sort […]
[…]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[…]
[…]t Shepperton Studios. Yeah.Unknown Speaker 4:32 So where did you go on after that toSpeaker 2 4:37 go? I got caught up in the RAF in 1950. And I just started work on a film called The Long Dark Hall, which record back was co directing with Anthony Bushnell and that took place[…]
