[…]It was a very, very trying period, because nobody - as Harry Watt has explained so well - nobody knew what the hell to do with us, you see. Until the Ministry of Information came along...John Legard: So you had to invent your own functions then?Pat Jackson: Well really, yes...and I think it was old […]
[…]t's come to the outbreak of war. What was the immediate effect on you and the newsreels? Or upon Movietone?Norman Fisher: Well we then came under the Ministry of Information.Roy Fowler: The cinemas closed immediately so what effect did that have?Norman Fisher: The cinemas reopened again, yes, there […]
[…]Shell - and this is quite important, I think - Shell's skill in technological exposition was such that when Shell put the Unit at the disposal of the Ministry of Information, they were very anxious indeed to have its services, because we were probably the leading unit in technological exposition in,[…]
[…] they'd finished, and then I started a job...John Legard: You say 'Mac'...this is [Scott MacGregor]?Peggy Gick: Yes. And then I started a job for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, who wanted a map made of the whole of the [Wear] area, for chaps to practice bombing. Which meant we had to do maps o[…]
[…]e occasion, this particular one being broken system. And they said, Do you really disturb anymore, I shall immediately find some people I know in the ministry of culture, and the phone went dead. That was three or four days later as root of cough. And he said, You did the right thing the other night[…]
[…]anies were being commissioned by the CEO of automated films. The new sales didn't get anything. So pressure was brought by the newsreel people on the ministry informations It was then they make a film for the cinemas. They wanted them to make format the London Blitz which was happening at that time,[…]
[…]army and been to India. I was as it were, in charge of costume, the Indian secrets, and so forth. And I remember we had to get special permission for Ministry of Food for the eggs and ham and flour to make the dish it was to be eaten and a lovely lady was the PR of Ministry of Food said I know what […]
