[…]'s a picture in the book (looks through book) - this one, that one. And I played (the top one there, the thing at the Lyceum)...John P Hamilton Traffic.Joan Kemp-Welch: Traffic. ! Which was a thing about the white slave traffic. And Cecil Parker who, afterwards, made such a success in Blit[…]
[…] He returned during the war as a member of the RAF and saw active service in Egypt. After the war […]
[…]put one's name on a register at the Architectural Association, the register of wanting a job and they had architects who came to them if they wanted drafts from them, that sort of thing. Anyhow, they said to me "Alright, what sort of job do you want?" and I said, "Well I'd like a job in a motion pic[…]
[…]as the shooting?Oh, God knows. [Laughter] I don't think it was all that long because the Boultings were given official leave from, both John from the RAF and Roy from the Army Film Units, they were given leave to make this film, Thunder Rock, official leave, because the authorities thought the […]
[…] leave this country. Up to that time, we had 12 merchant ships. We had two battleships, the Nelson and the Rodney. We had seven cruisers for five aircraft carriers and 41 destroyers to guard 12 merchant ships to go between the Straits of Gibraltar and to Malta, and they left us just off Cape bomb. B[…]
[…]d about your family background?A Yes, certainly, I was born in Blackheath near London on 22 September 1918 and myfather was - he had retired from the RAF in 1924, which was quite early - and he joinedCookwit(?) Budget as a camera man which was one of the original, very original, cinemanewsreels. Top[…]
[…]sted in people, and it seemed.. I discovered in Kent that there was a great friendship between a British Ace called Stanford Tuck, who was one of the RAF’s highest scoring Aces, and Adolf Gallant who had shot down something like 300 enemy aircraft in his career in the Luftwaffe, and they were mates.[…]
[…]He's a marvellous character. I mean I'm very impressed one day when he said to me. Yes I've got this kind of film. I rescued it from a beach landing craft in Anzio something bloody hell. How old is this man. He'd been through the lot you know. Yeah. Just been through the war But he was one of those […]
