3-063-024 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Personnel from the Crown Film unit, the Army Film and Photographic Unit, and the RAF Film Production Unit, dancing at the Sergeants' Party at RAF Iver Heath, Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, 1942-43; showing Walter Bird with an unidentified partner in the centre of the image. 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.