[…] films. Alan Lawson: Did you have anything to do with MOI or COI? Sid Cole: No not really - only […]
[…]ion on all sorts of subjects, you know, health, security or whatever, shortish films, quite interesting. So we got to know a lot of the people at the MOI, well they were an amazing collection of people. There was John Betjeman, Denis Forman, oh so many, those were the two that...[20:30]Who directed […]
[…]peaking all the time, we used to have to speak to the teachers in French. You know, if you came in, in the morning you'd say, "Bonjour Madam" or "Mademoiselle" or whatever it was, and if you wanted to go to the toilet, "Exuser moi s'il vous plait?" and you popped out...everything was French, which w[…]
[…]time to look at this help what's going to happen? He said we've gone had this happen. And I was sent off to see Sydney Bernstein at the at the at the MOI. And the result of this was that I went down to I was sent off to the Crowne Film Unit and spent well quite a long time there. Well, I worked with[…]
[…]yone liked it. And Humphrey approached me and asked me if I'd photograph 'Fires Were Started' which he was about to begin for this, you know, for the MoI. And I said that I'd be delighted, and so we started. We used entirely the fire crew, no actors again, and we shot it actually during the blitz in[…]
[…]endon invited me in and Isaid "I didn't get a job from Alex, I want a job in films" so he turned to Bernard and said “Couldn'twe get him a job in the MOI?" and Bernard said I'll see what I can do", sure enough about a coupleof months later I got an interview with Helen de Moulpied. Philip Mackie and[…]
[…]and silver fleet, where we used the Dutch submarine.Speaker 2 41:53 But how many films would you say? Did you make a lot of films for the MOISpeaker 1 41:57 Oh, yes, a hell of a lot. I can't remember them all, because it was so many films which happened to show you, know, eng[…]