[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Lawson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and this chap was in the RAF film unit, he was an art director too, Sid Powell or […]
[…]Gilbert: yes, I had two sets of wings.John Taylor: Why two sets.Jimmy Gilbert: You graduated as an American naval aviator, they called them and as an RAF pilot so you were allowed to wear two. It was quite funny, Outside the Stage Door Canteen there was a huge American marine with stripes down here […]
[…]ction. We were no heating. We weren't allowed any heating. Any sort, we weren't allowed to open a proper door open, but there was no to be no forced drafts. And the amplifiers were the size of wardrobes. And I remember the valves, they were enormous. And the store will glow with a brilliant light. B[…]
[…]And so I started and I got the Lord Mayor. I rang the Air Officer Commanding Northern Command, invited him and his wife and I got the band, the local RAF band for free, to play outside. I did this whole great thing out of a £10.00 budget, most of the budget, incidentally, went on - I had gold emboss[…]
[…]bsp;going back. Can you think of any cameramen that really helped you to get on to theSpeaker 2 10:40 well, I learned a lot from Gunther craft, particularly on close ups of women, from Gunther craft. And I'd learnt a great deal from much Greenbaum. I consider much Greenbaum one of the gr[…]
[…] to Constantine in Algeria and we were arrested by the RAF, we didn’t even know they’d invaded. It was fabulous. […]
[…]at lasted a bit better, that was the one about the bomber command which was written by John Wooldridge, who actually was a composer, but he was an ex-RAF man, as indeed Aubrey Baring was, and I remember we got a lot of Lincoln planes out of their cocoons – it was at the time when you could still do […]
[…] who actually was a composer, but he was an ex- RAF man, as indeed Aubrey Baring was, and I remember […]
