[…]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[…]
[…]g down there. And then we were all put on overtime getting this, this prototype camera together, which was the only one they had to get ready for the ministry, which that was the forerunner of itRoy Fowler  29:27  was the camera wholly original? Or was it based on another camera, the Mitch[…]
[…]y'd all turned me down except in an underground laboratory job, and I had a bet with the Airforce wallah, a chap called Wing Commander Nelson, in Air Ministry...and, you've probably heard this story before...Alan Lawson: No...no, no.David Prosser: ...that, he said "oh, we're not going to have any so[…]
[…], for their posters and things?Joy Batchelor: Yes, mm, mmKay Mander: I seeJoy Batchelor: Oh they did all sorts of things. But when he moved on to the Ministry of Information as Films Officer, of course it was very good for us.Kay Mander: So you saw this advertisement of John's, wanting animators, so[…]
[…]hand.RF: Can you tell us about your transition into directing.VG: That was in the early war period, when I was also doing my fire brigade stints, The Ministry of Information approached me through the studio to write a script, a little 10-minute short about colds spreading diseases, sneezes and disea[…]
[…]ee months, the news show changed. You see the head like, say, for instance, the first quarter of the year, go months, would have the home office, the Ministry of Defense, if you like, or the army, and the then path, he would have, say, the Navy. So one of the other ministries.Roy Fowler  13:22 […]
