A few weeks ago, we concentated on the Pirates along with Long John Silver who are getting nearer and nearer to the treasure and for this sequence the the location was nearby Black Park in Buckinghamshire.

Among heavy foliage and ferns, Robert Newton led his band of cut-thropats along the banks of a leaf strewn lagoon until theu fin d the pine tree described by Capatinn Flint on his map.

The filming here in Black Park on a hot summer day, provided and un-expected for a group of children from Bethnal Green who were on a camping holiday here. They were all amazed at the sight lof this band on pirates striding aroun d very near their camp – they formed an interested audience behind the camera.

Long John Silverr’s famous parrot Captain Flint came in for much attention as her perched on Robert Newton’s shoulder.

Here is Cap’n Flint ABOVE – with Bobby Driscoll in a posed still while they were filming Treasure Island.

Among the guests visiting the set this week had been Lady Tedder wife of Lord Tedder Chief of the Air Staff and Marshall of the RAF.

The Disney’s had met Lord and Lady Tedder in Hollywood during or just after the War where Walt Disney had been producing a special RAF film with their advice. They had all become fiends.

Filming of scenes of the Hispaniola under the direction of Russell LLoyd continued in and around Falmouth in Cornwall.

Walt Disney and his family had boarded ‘the Queen Elizabeth’ Liner and sailed off on their way back home in mid August – around the time that these sequences were being completed.

BELOW: Details of week ending 24 August 1949 fiming :-