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[…] claims [21:24 mins] Political bias of newsreels and filming; the Royal family; newsreel cameraman; about Gerald Sanger and J Arthur […]

[…] years. We had an RSM called Derek Craig who theoretically ran the unit well I mean clearly we had a captain, what was his name? Captain Boyle in the Royal Scots but everyone just buggered off and did their own thing. We had German POWs as servants as body servants looking after our billets. &n[…]

[…]shame.  But -er - then I specialised in design - er - mainly advertising design and then I got - er  - managed to get a place at the - er - Royal College of Art.  I wangled that because I applied to get into the graphic design department there and they said it was full up.  So I […]

[…]icrowave dish which would follow us to wherever the news was and try and park somewhere local and put the crane up so that they could see the Theatre Royal tower and when you think about the challenge of that, that's pretty challenging! To want to do that was pretty good! I: Yeah! [72:30]R[…]

[…]recording is vested in the BECTU  history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the […]

[…]desk took fright, was on the day of the Dunblane tragedy. I was sent out, a keen junkie on the News Editor had sent me out to go straight to Stirling Royal Infirmary and a Reporter called Douglas McGuire, I think, who went straight to Dunblane and it was, sort of, well mobile phones were a very larg[…]

[…]lready, I was probably 18 when my father died. I was already in the army. And, in fact, I was already commissioned. I went into a regiment called the royal Horse Guards. Now that was a mistake, and it wasn't a very good soldier, but my brother went into it, and sort of, I never questioned it, you kn[…]

[…] back in, as a child there was an uncle who as it were conditioned my very, very early childish interest in the cinema. He used to take me to the old Royalty Cinema in Kensington High Street, which was the first cinema ever in the Royal Borough, and in fact the only cinema for years in Kensington.&n[…]

[…]bsp;of London Manor Park. And. At that time. My father who had been in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War had gone back into the Royal Air&n[…]