[…]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[…]
[…]ead Office he had become good buddies with Maurice Keys, one of the Company’s in-house film promotions team. A quick phone conversation with “Maurice moi boy” - as Ted would affectionately refer to him after their promotions together while Ted was running the Ilford Odeon prior to taking over Edinbu[…]
[…]nk much, except during the wartime. Wartime, with what was called "the five minute films" and "the monthly films", went out under the auspices of the MOI and they were shown virtually in every cinema in the country. These went into the cinemas. During the war. But before the war and after the war Sh[…]
[…]d got about, we’d usually got the scripts before. Yes, we had, no we didn’t in that case, again they were late there. We had about three scripts when Moira, Morra Armstrong who did it so beautifully too. That was studio, studio and a bit of film. [Laughter] And it won BAFTA didn’t it?Yes.And it beat[…]
[…]...Yes I remember her.She was in charge of the library was she? Was she?She was, yes over Pentecost.That’s right.Over Pente, she was the head at, the MOI or COI.That’s right, yes. And I used to go, eventually having introduced myself when I, shemust have given me some hope and I used to go about onc[…]
[…]to put in every three months for reserve occupation. So of course - forgot mine and forgot the other two - one of them ended up in the RAF! So anyway MOI said, "If these people were important to you, you wouldn't forget to apply for them," so of course that was it. Now they'd got their hands on you,[…]
[…]e I was discharged. And when I was well enough to work I went as an editor to the Office of War Information, which was the American equivalent of the MOI. And what they were doing was turning out a newsreel every week for the advancing troops to take into the liberated towns. So we were getting stuf[…]
[…] Ministry of Information and Documentation. The Polish department of the MOI had film divisions in Stretton House, Albemarle Street[vii]. RF […]
[…] lot... yes, I met them. Interviewer (unidentified): Well, more the MOI films... Jill Craigie: Yes. Well the films weren't subject […]
