Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]u know, on cross-infection in hospitals and sort of fairly... depression, mental depression. They were all quite minor films, mainly through the COI, but they were good films to work on.What was the date of that, Never Go With Strangers?Dear oh dear, it must be twenty years.Have you seen i[…]

Stephen Peet

[…]nbsp;[00:02:07] He was Armenian? [00:02:09] I think, yes, and trained as an orchestra conductor But he was out of work working as a clerk at the COI... They found me. And I got a phone call at my sister's to come the next day and discus the idea of going to Africa. And I said oh my god I don't […]

Margaret Thomson

[…] ecology. Now, ecology was a word that the layman never knew in those days, it was a very, very sort of academic word really. And by an extraordinary coincidence, my thesis had been on an ecological subject that had been the ecology of a little freshwater insect, a little insect that lived its life […]

Charles Potter

[…], wasn't he, because, I mean, you think, who can't film it during the war that they didn't have budgets, although hardly had, and it wasn't until the COI, the ministry became the COI, Desmond costs thing become very, very important, I suppose, in a way, British artful films started off rather simila[…]

Kay Mander

[…]r' and 'New Builders', the two films I'd made with Rotha.Sidney Cole: 'New Builders' isn't here, but...Kay Mander: 'New Builders' was - they were all COI.Sidney Cole: 'Debris Tunnel'?Kay Mander: That was Shell.Sidney Cole: And 'Penicillin'?Kay Mander: That came after I'd left Rotha.Sidney Cole: Ah, […]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]n man.[20:24]Halas and Batchelor’s?Halas and Batchelor during the war, and he did some very interesting, they did lots of cartoons, you know, for the COI I think and so on, and did very interesting work. Andthen after the war, I don’t know if it started during the war, but immediately afterwards,cer[…]
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