[…]t war. And the the holder of the beaver press tried to kill the picture before it even started. I think Beaverbrook had some official capacity in the ministry of information or something at that time, wasn't the Minister of supply he could have been. Anyway, he Roy Fowler 1 33:58&nbs[…]
[…]th Broadway, in a church hall of some kind. So I got myself taken on as a clerk, issuing petrol coupons. And we then moved to Acton, to that enormous Ministry of Pensions building in Action...Sidney Cole: Oh yes, that's still there.Kay Mander: We had a bit of that, and I was put into the typing pool[…]
[…] Sidney managed to get my deferment which was every 3 months, mostly by taking, there was this lady in the employment office at Hammersmith who was a Ministry of Labour lady who was in charge of deferments, by taking her to the most expensive restaurant in London, I don't know this is really true, h[…]
[…]erts and everything, yes great didn’t we?Oh yes it’s...So that was, that was that. And then one of the mares, so-called, said... Oh, sheworked in The Ministry of Information, well two of them worked in The Ministry of Information, these were all people doing important war jobs that were staying with[…]
[…]rked then for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and I worked for various comic magazines as illustrator. But it was at the beginning of the war when the Ministry of Information later the COI snatched us up. A man called John Grierson saw our previous work and together with somebody called Arthur Elton […]
[…]ameraman, turned on small dogs yapping on the beach when they were testing it and then that this piece of equipment, we were told by the man from the Ministry of Defence who came down to view the footage before it could be released, he said “No, no, we can't release that.” Really? So, it was r[…]
[…]lms were made without making a whole range of things.John Wiles 3:50 The first thing I think I worked on was, it was something for either ministry information or something like that. I can't remember but I think it had Wilfred last near and he was I was sort of astounded to find this guy[…]
[…]t him. He, of course, had press show and trade show tickets. And I also, therefore, I could go, marvellous Matthew gave me these things. And also the Ministry of Information showed captured German films and that was another good thing because nobody in the Dutch section or anybody ever wanted to go.[…]
[…]now how to get into it, where to go and and he couldn't actually help me. He was too far out a bit. He said, But do you knowwhy don't you try the air ministry? So I tried the air ministry. I had all the necessary qualifications, obviously to do this job.Because I mean, I can draw if it is a qu[…]
