[…]eresting story about that - shall I tell it now?Arnold Schwartzman : Yes, please.Charles Bennett : I came over to England to write propaganda for the Ministry of Information, and while I was there Laurence Olivier - who I knew very well, and liked very much - said, "Charles, do you think that the Mi[…]
[…] sorry [laughs] I'm jumping ahead about a year. It wasn't the Spot News thing it was - ACT got in touch with me, that's right, and said that the then Ministry of Works wanted a director cameraman to run a film unit for them. Cut a long story short, I joined the Ministry of Works in the beginning of […]
[…]here or cutting rooms with nitrate rooms. So they had a little place at the side of Shellmex House. Shellmex House had in fact been taken over by the Ministry of Supplies, so we were a little outpost of Shell there. And Shell were making films without Shell on them but a little SFU monogram on it wh[…]
[…]ith the army, army as such?Dallas Bower  22:06  No I was posted to a training brigade at Whitby and er the film's division of the Ministry of Information was the most extra-ordinary set-up and as much as there was nobody in it who had any experience of real film-making. And they'[…]
[…]rvice broadcasting, I mean, but it was to give basic information to the Afghan people. And we did it as a breakfast show, and managed to convince the ministry to give us time on their local, their sort of national radio station to do that. And I, when I met Chris I, several years later, he credited […]
[…]y in 31st comedy, I think, well, like it made this film for the interests of this set. COI or mo I can't recall the central office information or the Ministry of Information, which was just after all 47 48 million This was and it was to try and joke people out of being so miserable. Everybody's very[…]
