[…]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[…]
[…]n a boat from America. They hadn't got a final script when they got off the boat but they got something they could sellKGY: They incorporated it with MOI ideas about Anglo American relations.CC: It was wonderful the idea of heaven in black and white and using Technicolor to be able to change from on[…]
[…]he comes on, "Madame Martin", etc, and you get the whole five of the family, and then the shadow stands up in front of the family group and says, "Et moi, je suis la commontateur[?]". Break - so how do you shoot it? Can I tell you how we shot it? There was a wonderful cinema called the Crown Theatre[…]
[…]RF: Which you wrote on the understanding you would direct that.VG: No, I had a contract for that, my contract came after The Nose Has it which is the MOI short, I then said to Bill Ostrer at Gainsborough “Here are the reviews of this, I want to write and direct my own here will you let me do it?” an[…]
[…]it was at Pinewood wasn't it?Roy Fowler : Was it? What, the archive?Ella Mallett : They took everything over there didn't they? I think you made some MOI Pictures?Roy Fowler : Yes, during the war, yes.Ella Mallett : Yes.Roy Fowler : But it wouldn't be there now.Ella Mallett : They didn't make a film[…]
[…]do with them. I knew people of course because everybody tended to meet at the Highlander at one point.AL: Did you have any dealings yourself with the MOI during the war.BM: No, the films I was involved with were directly War Office. And we went direct to the WAr Office, Ministry of Information were […]
[…]id, “you’re, we can’t let you go,” he said. “You’re doing all these things.” And I was doing some of these shorts for propaganda for the MOI. Yes, I used to get about fifteen quid to cut and dub the lot in the you know, in one day sort of thing, and on top of my own work. I[…]
