Amongst other things, the museum has the largest collection of silk maps worn as scarves by reconnaissance pilots in the event that they got shot down and needed to find their way to safety. An Allied World War II photo interpreter examines photos of a German V2 rocket site. Emma Webster on location in London. For Ms. Webster, the most interesting story revealed by Spies in the Sky is that of the aerial spy photography and technology developed during the Vietnam War. It is said that the thermal infrared sensors on spy planes were so sensitive that they could detect the heat from a human footprint in the jungle at night.
International productions can have their share of ups and downs.
Ms. Webster experienced one particularly frustrating episode while shooting on location in England. We had drove up to the Chicksands Museum from London where we would spend the entire day filming. This included two interviews, one with Jack Eggleston , a World War II veteran and aerial camera expert who had driven 90 miles for the occasion. We filmed the interviews and then shot as much of the museum as we could. We also filmed some exclusive material of a photo analyst looking at images from the Gulf War.