Hugh Stewart

[…] I made a film called Night Without Stars, directed by Anthony Pelissier...John Legard: Oh yes, yes.Hugh Stewart: ...which was quite stylish. But the central character was a man who was going blind, and resentful of this fact - prickly and awkward, but nevertheless one should see the charm. And I wa[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] knighthood.Reg Sutton: That's right, that's the story. Yes, that's the story. I wouldn't be surprised.Roy Fowler: But he was also very close to Tory Central Office. wasn't he?Reg Sutton: No that was Gerald Sanger.Roy Fowler: Oh I beg your pardon.Reg Sutton: Now Gerald Sanger was editor, now he was […]

Peter Williams

[…]ngs.And they, I think quite sensibly, Steptoe and Edwards, decided that they were not going to have a scramble; they were actually going to allow the Central Office of Information to film the birth – uncontroversial, I was very happy with that – and they would get into bed with ‘A Newspaper Group’, […]

Michael Houldey

[…] my chance through Brian Lewis. Again, the names come back, the names come back, Norman solo brown Lewis, like Mike Willow. And Brian had now gone to central from the BBC. And he was running documentaries up there. And he asked me if I had the same sort of thing as her with Mike Miller actually had […]

Jan Zilliacus

[…]s invited to a lunch party.Mm.And, by two friends of mine because the Ministry of Information used to be the, what,it’s now the...The COI, I know the Central Office of Information.Yes, but it’s...Brendan Bracken’s lot.That’s right. And, and that place there in Gower Street, the end of Gower Street, […]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]e were we then started doing some films for people like shorts. And and we were shooting what we could making and we were doing a lot of work for the Central Office of Information again when I was the best and suddenly I supplied the central office information with an enormous amount of film for not[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]nd I reckon  that it was much more film treatment music. And that was made. And actually, it was made under the supervision of Bob privet at the Central School of Art on what is called a no budget. And it was made with my own film  company, which is no longer trading, which is called r s, […]
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