[…]nd that fell through because they couldn’t agree on the co-operation between the two people who were going to sponsor it, the private sponsor and the COI, or something like that, it fell through. And finally I think it was Helen de Mouilpied who was Denis Forman's wife who commissioned me to do a fi[…]
[…]peculiar manner, apparently, some part of the government which has some sort of money for very broad public relations right outside the realms of the COI or anything like that was a bit depressed that England, in fact did extremely well out of Nobel Prizes, and no one seemed to know, or didn't know […]
[…]Vogue and I worked for various comic magazines as illustrator. But it was at the beginning of the war when the Ministry of Information later the COI snatched us up. A man called John Grierson saw our previous work and together with somebody called Arthur Elton who was working then for the Minis[…]
[…]6:44 The Merton Park films. Yes. The documentary was interesting, because I had a good deal to do with it. In preparing it. It was done for the COI, I was hired by Pathe a man go Lionel Hoare. And doing research and visiting the stations was very interesting. And I was allowed to cut the pictu[…]
[…] say, you were still working in the traditional style.Joy Batchelor: And then it was largely thanks to Jack Beddington that we got to working for the COI.Kay Mander: The MOI it would have been... that would have been about what, 1940-ish?Joy Batchelor: '41, I think. And the first film we made was th[…]
[…]e laboratory to talk to Bert Craik who was the optical printer there and say I need some wipes and since the theme of the picture had been based on a coin - I think it was a penny coin – and I used this as the theme for the wipes. I asked him to make me 16 centre to side circular wipes and I needed […]
[…] but it was a. Years and years ago with the COI information had it's own film library before it went […]
[…] Legard: Ministry of Education...did you do that through the [ COI] or did you do that separately? Peggy Gick: I […]
[…] were going to sponsor it, the private sponsor and the COI, or something like that, it fell through. And finally […]
[…] to Jack Beddington that we got to working for the COI. Kay Mander: The MOI it would have been... that […]
