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[…] advertising (particularly campaigns for J. Walter Thompson) and for the Ministry of Information throughout the Second World War. In the post war […]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]d a four engined bomber I was 18. My air RAF career ended finally over Brest when in fact 11 of us went on a daylight raid. Thought is a good idea by ministry because the the sorry, the Americans were doing it successfully and out of the 11 two got back. My wing commander was one armed with the othe[…]

[…]lms and ended up in the Army Film Unit which was based at Pinewood which was only five miles away from Denham. The Army Film Unit was attached to the Ministry of Information. It wasn't making training films, mainly short films for cinemas, propaganda films. My job at that time was sound camera opera[…]

[…]he, because, I mean, you think, who can't film it during the war that they didn't have budgets, although hardly had, and it wasn't until the COI, the ministry became the COI, Desmond costs thing become very, very important, I suppose, in a way, British artful films started off rather similarly, alth[…]