[…]wasn’t he?Julia Cave: He was certainly a character. I remember once doing a terrible 34:00 thing to poor Gilbert, who liked to have a tot of whisky before going on. And there was always hospitality in the dressing-rooms at the television theatre, and I had to open a bottle of whisky and,[…]
[…]kies, and some sunshine and I thought absolutely, it must be grey skies because this man is under threat and therefore it must be a threatening sky and we had this sort of large log image true. didn't look so good. But I can't remember which we used in the end, but I remember that. But it's dr[…]
[…]y life was saved in the most ridiculous way. The first trip I did was in a Halifax and the flight engineer was so ill being thrown around allover the sky he just sat there and he was not prepared to do any more work. It was the very first trip we had done from Leuchars in the middle of winter becaus[…]
[…]hool caught fire one night. He used to come into prayers in the morning with a black eye sometimes. We used to call him Bisto because the smell of whisky as he swept up the aisle was so strong. It was a very reputable school. SC: What were you doing at Maidenhead.CC: It was supposed to be an advance[…]
[…]e was the now we hadn't got any pictures of the bomb. We got the pictures of the bombers taking off. The bomb was taking off, silhouetted against the sky and taking off. 1000 bombers take off the bomb Budapest, and we got pictures of them arriving, coming back. But we hadn't got any pictures of the […]
[…] rope from the pilot's seat to the glider and the sky was full of gliders, dropping of men into the […]
[…] had pictures of the bombers taking off silhouetted against the sky, 1,000 bombers take off to bomb Budapest and we […]
[…]ething with it, and to be honest, we get no help, actually, from the publishers and anything when we go and try and promote something to a, you know, Sky Arts, for example, which would be probably quite useful, like the work that I have to do in order to get even a hearing is in producing a synopsis[…]
[…]ber a specific job where one Director turned up to shoot what was deemed a feature by the Unions but in fact all he wanted was some GVs of the Dundee skyline. We went to the top of Law hill and we had eight cars, we had a Spark (Electrician), we had a stage crew and the stage crew had a caption stan[…]
