[…]the Sudan. And yes, he was. No, he was. He was a he was an assistant director. Yes, I think, production assistant. Anyhow, he went to, he went to the COI. A year before I did. Angus Ross, rang him up and asked him to go there. And he said, No, the first time the year later, Angus, I think asked him […]
[…]rt flights. We were queueing up for it, and in the queue in front of me was Anthony Asquith.John Legard: How incredible.Rodney Giesler: Extraordinary coincidence. So I tapped him on the shoulder and told him how much I enjoyed this essay, and asked him one or two questions on it and we started chatt[…]
[…]peaker 3  30:50  sax knows I had a while as the I think I render my title technological head of technological services, or something at the COI for a while, where I was intimately concerned with the production, end of the output of the COI, when I was dealing on a day to day basis with a v[…]
[…] wanted to read music, but it was too late I was half way through the first year inClassics and I couldn't change.Taylor/Peet: Did going to Cambridge coincide with the beginning of the War or were you therewhen…?Denis Forman: I was there before the War.Taylor/Peet: I see.Denis Forman: My last year a[…]
[…]o the WAr Office, Ministry of Information were hovering in the background. But even the budget if I remember it was direct to the war office.AL : The COI -BM: The COI I became involved with in a fairly horrific business. We did some films on air traffic control with Skillbeck and there's really, it […]
[…]irely Newfoundland data. Oh, yes, we were there for five months, I think.We started in winter. And it was interesting in one way and that I think the COI put up some money. But the rest had to be found by the new finance government, which was agreed beforehand. Unfortunately, they were just coming t[…]
[…]ed in the whole idea of this and decided that I was going to get myself into Crown Unit Film Unit. And it so happened that we were down the road from COI of course.Of course Baker Street, yes they were in Launchbury [ph 18:00] House somewhereweren’t they?Yes that’s right, yes, yes, and I used to go.[…]
[…]ts going on including world inaction, which was The story was that Grierson invented the name world in action in Canada. When he was appointed to the COI, to run the COI he decided that the crown filming it should produce a series of monthly 10 minute films for cinema release called World it action.[…]
