[…]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[…]
[…]and point out what wonderful propaganda it was for theil if they just sponsored a film unit or individual films.AT : Did you have anything to do with MOI or COI?SC: No not really – only after the War – in relation to Ealing when Cav made a film in French called 'Trois Chansons de la Resistance'. The[…]
[…] Gratefully. Then it was produced very splendidly. Yes. And… By moi. [Laughter] Yes. Yes, yes, yes. And it cost? Six […]
[…] one of them ended up in the RAF! So anyway MOI said, "If these people were important to you, you […]
[…] one of them ended up in the RAF! So anyway MOI said, "If these people were important to you, you […]
