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[…] Lawson: Did you have anything to do with MOI or COI? Sid Cole: No not really - only after the […]

[…] Navy. Absorbed into Navy worked alongside John Paddy Carstairs. Joined COI after leaving Navy working on colonial films. Formed Central […]

[…]quare? Yeah, 22 Ernest Marsh  28:21  Soho square had the lab in the basement, and the studio was on the first floor, and the COI, where people like Neil Cronin worked, was on the upper floors of the building. And Sammy said, I've got a job going. Would you like to come and w[…]

[…]  29:56  Oh your time at the Central Office of Information.Speaker 2  30:00  Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did quite a few documentaries, for COI. And what I liked about them was they still shot on film. Although most companies have gone on to video by then, but they shot on film. And they'v[…]

[…]interesting films, I directed a nice little film about cute girl, they were rebuilding the timber house andand they just wanted a little felt for the COI about how many gallons of paint it took or whatever. But I actually went down to Cuba and research the history of the temporary house. And it was […]

[…]t before. And especially for another film researcher I did that a few times. Is. Not saying it is a comedy but it was a. Years and years ago with the COI information had it's own film library before it went to BFI which is now it will be fine. I get to watch somebody catalogue. I mean you had books.[…]

[…]n that... I mean inbetween times, you did other work, other assistant jobs and trying to get films going, some of us spent quite a lot of time at the COI, with your commissioning editor, or whatever, trying to to, that I think didn't change. We're getting  a lot going Katy McGahan&nbs[…]

[…]rd: Those are filmstrips for education?Peggy Gick: Yes and they used to show them...John Legard: Ministry of Education...did you do that through the [COI] or did you do that separately?Peggy Gick: I don't honestly remember who I did it through, but I know I did it...I did quite a lot of them.John Le[…]

[…]re still trying to look for these clicks, and we heard a click and then a bit later we heard another click, and I said to Fred – you know those click coincided with those lights going on.  This was in the middle of the day but there was a light over in this office block.  And I said, ‘Fred[…]