[…]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.[…]
[…]you need it. Yes, you need it. I mean, my, my, we're going, we're always going one stage ahead of where you want to be. But my retirement is timed to coincide with the need, in my opinion, for enormous expansion, which I could never do as an individual. Yes, and the timing of the retirement really c[…]
[…] and then to help them to set up their own methods of making films. And in I think about towards the end of 1947, I produced a paper for the, for the COI, suggesting that an enlarged colonial film, it should be set up that I should set up in factory filming it as its as its producer, with these obje[…]
[…]n rules for amoment, you know. I always say to John - he was a bloody despot and he was. I liked him, you know, but a man to fear really.Q What about COI because - this is my first memory - they were often considered from thepoint of view of employment rather the people you went to last if you could[…]
[…] Yes he did didn't he MH: Wasn't it called the COI in those days? RF : No, No, No LK: […]
[…] and England. I understand that the BBC went to the COI and said, "Give us a newsreel. " And the […]
