Seimon Pugh-Jones, ACG Combat Photographer

Alan Hausmann, Webbing master (right in picture) and
myself on the Foy sound stage of Band of Brothers,
complete with fake snow…

A few weeks later, I returned to the Band of Brothers set, and was approached by a cameraman, who asked;

"You’re the guy who shot the 16mm stuff aren’t you?"

I was a bit nervous, as I just didn’t know what was coming next…he must have realized this and added quickly…

"Haven’t you heard? …Spielberg thought it was undiscovered archive footage!"

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I couldn’t speak!

I was asked back to play the part of a combat cameraman, and to film on the vintage Filmo…and this time the footage was to be included in the final cut.  I really hoped that 70-year-old spring was going to hold out! Luckily it did!… and it was!

Courtesy of my friend Roach who worked on the series,
this is a backstage shot of me on the Band of Brothers set

And here’s a screenshot of me from the production itself

On Flying the Friendly Skies

My second ambition was to become reality sooner than I could believe. Later that same week I was working as a reconstruction coordinator for Battle Stations a programmed for the  History Channel.  We were shooting a documentary on the World War II fighter aircraft, the P51 Mustang.  The cameraman did not want to fly… so I got the back seat in an original wartime P51 Mustang… shooting myself on a hand held camera dressed as a pilot, and having to simulate being a pilot, all this was cut into the documentary.  Then back to Earth… or so I thought.

Faces make the shot…They have to believable. I think you may
agree…he looks like a troubled General

This is Damian Rowley, AKA. Devin.  We’ve become great friends
over the two years that  Damian’s  been involved with ACG.
He rides big motorbikes for a living …both on and off the track.

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