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[…]e money was coming from but I think it must have certainly been as Derek very much worked for the MOILK: Yes he did didn't heMH: Wasn't it called the COI in those days?RF: No, No, NoLK: Centre of InformationRF: No, COI was Post war. The MOI was always the Ministry of Truth (laughing) in 1984MH: Yes […]

[…]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[…]

[…]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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…], 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[…]