Latest Batch of Interviews Digitised in January/ February 2019
[…] member of the wartime documentary movement while working at the RAF’s film unit. Post-war, he enjoyed long stays in two […]
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Fred Tomlin
[…] 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[…]
Dennis Main Wilson
[…]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 […]
Gerry Anstiss
[…].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[…]
“The Coming of the Projectionettes”: Women’s Work in Film Projection and Changing Modes of Spectatorship in Second World War British Cinemas
[…] press. Whether in the form of the chief operator, the RAF flying overhead in a recruitment poster, there was still […]
Joe Busuttil
[…]tbin. And he said ‘what are you doing in my dustbin?’ So he said ‘dancing sir’. So he said ‘Ah, I don’t want you mucking about with RAF property and he sort of walked away and there was a glimmer of a grin on his face as he walked away, you know. But I always remember that.&n[…]
Gerry Humphreys
[…]e sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal evening kick off match and I came hom[…]
John Shirley
[…]urprise, I don't know whether it was deliberate. I found myself as six months on deferred service. This was May 1942. We've got to I didn't go in the RAF till December 42. And Charlie at that time was working was living rather at denim. And his wife, who had been in the industry years before had gon[…]