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[…] films to do. And he offered me one for the Ministry of Health on cross infection in hospitals. End of […]

[…]ginning of 1963, I made contact with Jack Holmes. He was now a producer at Realist. He had a number of COI films to do. And he offered me one for the Ministry of Health on cross infection in hospitals.End of Side 3.Rodney Giesler: It was a training film to be shown to student nurses about the danger[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]ite lab coats looking after them. It’s such a mile away from laptops and smartphones and so on, it’s difficult to remember!But we had a deal with the Ministry of Defence computer which was based up in Darlington, and they were going to run our system once a month. To generate the continuing technica[…]

[…]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 […]

[…] 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[…]

[…] anybody's desk when you went into anyone's office in the Ministry of Information or the War Office. If you were loyal to […]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]