[…]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 […]
[…] now a producer at Realist. He had a number of COI films to do. And he offered me one for […]
[…]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[…]
[…] films. Taylor/Peet: That was already the central office. Denis Forman: COI, yes I mean Brenden Bracken had gone. It was […]
[…]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[…]
