Francis Searle

[…] whenSpeaker 1  26:40  the area, which I think I've already covered pretty well, for the services with a k1 a k2 air force and navy and the MOI, which I think I did mention all these names, Beddington and Arthur Elton Wright and John Taylor, andRoy Fowler  27:12  I'm not sure tha[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…]country or was it entirely separate?LK: It were separate , it was part of the Ministry of Information and Documentation. The Polish department of the MOI had film divisions in Stretton House, Albemarle Street[vii].RF: So it was funded by this country rather than the Polish government in exile?LK: Ye[…]

Muriel Cole

[…]what would happen. But very soon they started to do a ministry of information, shorts, Army shorts. And during 1940 they all as well as these various moi shorts, they also made five feature films, which were convoy, saloon, bar sailors, three spare copper and think it was turned out nice again,Unkno[…]

John Shearman

[…] at all?Speaker 1  4:35  I know for South Hardy, personally, I'm socially. No, I didn't. Well, let's trySpeaker 2  4:44  now, the MOI, would you like to comment on that? The moi and its function and its usefulness or not, or what went wrong? Or didn't it go wrong? It. Well,Speake[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]p;Anthony Havelock-Allan?Peter Tanner: Anthony Havelock-Allan. I had a car, it was quite exceptional then, I had a car, not a ministry car but a MOI car which they lent me, a great big car. And it used to have a loud speaker on top and a microphone inside and I always wanted to use this and sho[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]hich they then had to put across this gap into onto the rostrum, which is only about five foot wide by about three foot and rig the the legs onto the MOI, and then the head, and then the camera. Everything had to be passed across this gap making sure nothing was dropped. Nick Gilbey  […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]ts on what aren't are extremely authentic. Roy Fowler  20:39  What kind of influence did officialdom, the bureaucracy in the MOI have on the studio on your father? Jonathan Balcon  20:46  I think a fair amount. Of course, they were responsible direct[…]

Jill Craigie

[…]lms? Can you recall them?Jill Craigie: Yes, I do recall them. Grierson and all that lot... yes, I met them.Interviewer (unidentified): Well, more the MOI films...Jill Craigie: Yes. Well the films weren't subject to criticism, and therefore they could get away with anything. I happen to have a great […]
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