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scrunched down so I look real small.
:11:04
"Fighter Squadron"
was made around the same age.
:11:08
It was in black-and-white.
:11:10
It was my first
black-and-white movie.
:11:14
All the documentaries of the war
were black-and-white then.
:11:18
I went to the Skyharbour Airport
in Phoenix,
:11:21
and they had loads of World War
Two airplanes in mothballs.
:11:25
They had P-40s,
they had Thunderbolts,
:11:28
they had F6F Hellcats, all lined up.
:11:32
My dad got us permission
to sit in them.
:11:36
He did all the costumes for me,
:11:38
because I used his outfit from
Burma to make the movies with.
:11:42
So if I had nine kids
flying these airplanes,
:11:46
I only had one airplane and one
leather helmet and goggles,
:11:50
which they kept trading.
:11:51
In those days camera shops
also sold war documentaries,
:11:57
so I intercut a kid in my dad's
hat flying this airplane,
:12:02
with actual gun camera footage
you could buy in a camera store.
:12:06
Steve had the camera
and another kid in the cockpit.
:12:11
To show the plane banking,
he would just turn the camera.
:12:15
When you saw it on screen
it looked like the plane went.
:12:20
Between reality and fantasy,
spliced this story together.
:12:40
Go!
:12:42
B-51 ! Cadillac of the sky!
:12:50
Half my films take place
in the '30s and '40s.
:12:56
Look at the "Raiders" films,
at "Empire Of The Sun",