RAF's No. 2 School of Photography

Portrait of Walter Bird in civilian clothing, at RAF Iver Heath, Pinewood Studios. Pinewood Studios - or RAF Iver Heath - was used as the base during the Second World War for the Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, the Crown Film Unit, and the Army Film and Photographic Unit. The studios were used to produce both films advocating the role of the armed forces in the war, and documentary films, recording the progress of the war. Dorothy Knicky Chapman was posted to Pinewood Studios to serve as a WAAF with the RAF's Film Production Unit, working in the Stills Department. This photograph is one of a set compiled by Chapman, which document her time at Pinewood Studios. It is not clear which of the photographs in the set were taken by Chapman.Walter Bird 1903-1969 was a British photographer who, prior to the Second World War, was establishing a career in portrait photography. During the war, Bird worked for the Crown Film Unit, which was stationed at Pinewood Studios, where he worked in the Stills Department. Following on from the war, he re-established his photographic business at 46 Queen's Gate, and would later become the official photographer for the National Photographic Record, and an elected member of the Royal Photographic Society

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