Interview with Joe Royle

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British NCO served as cameraman with No 9 Army Film and Photographic Unit in Far East, 1945-1947

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REEL 1 Background in Manchester, GB, 1927-1939: family; education; employment in photographic department at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI); called up, Feb/1945. Aspects of enlistment and training with British Army in GB, 1945: call-up for military service, 2/1945; six weeks basic training at No 19 Primary Training Centre, General Service Corps at Carlisle Castle; living conditions; contracted pleurisy; medical treatment; problem of blisters; posting to Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in Aberdeen for further training. Aspects of period with Army Film and Photographic Unit in GB, 1945: transfer to Army Film and Photographic Unit; description of training course; memories of other trainees on course; preference for cine over still photography; film made during course; instructors; accommodation at Pinewood; memories of 'Burma Victory' being filmed at Pinewood Studios; completed training with Canadians; failure rate on course; rank; embarkation leave on posting to Far East, 1945. Recollections of period as cameraman with No 9 Army Film and Photographic Unit in Far East, 1945-1947: voyage from GB to Singapore, Malaya; accommodation in Raffles College; duties printing photographs of Japanese war criminals; promotion to sergeant; issue of Eyemo Camera. REEL 2 Continues: unit personnel; accommodation; posting to Makassar, Celebes Island, Dutch East Indies, 2/1946; organisation; accommodation and messing arrangements; language; duties on patrol with Gurkhas; choice of subjects; relations with Gurkhas; political situation; stories of incident with local girl and visit to leper colony; types of films made; uniform worn with Army Film and Photographic Unit insignia; distribution of films; black market activities; malaria tablets; posting to Bangkok, Thailand, 4/1946; accommodation; duties filming food relief operations and scenes of daily life including Japanese prisoners of war; visit to Burma-Thailand Railway; attitude towards Japanese. REEL 3 Continues: filming King of Siam; problem with camera while filming Japanese comfort girls; film stock; story of filming Gurkha dancers; exposure and lighting; use of tripod; story of Lieutenant-Colonel Astor and ambassador; communication with home; social life; processing of film; return to Singapore, Malaya; training as projectionist and driver with Army Kinematograph Service; duties showing films to British Indian Army troops; relations with British Indian Army officers; amusing stories of Corps of Military Police; problem of snakes; posting to Middle East. REEL 4 Continues: period in Bombay, India. Aspects of period as War Office photographer in GB and Northern Ireland, 1947-1948: duties and subjects covered; attitude to remaining in British Army; demobilisation, 5/1948; post-war career as commercial still and cine photographer in GB.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Gladstone, Kay (Recorder)
Royle, Joseph (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-07-17
Dimensions: whole: Duration 110, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 19654

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