[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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'[…]
[…] Can I go back to the cinema? What about the Ministry of Information films? Can you recall them? Jill Craigie: Yes, I […]
[…]rains Trust with Professor Joad and ... have you ever heard any of those?Interviewer (unidentified): Yes. Can I go back to the cinema? What about the Ministry of Information films? Can you recall them?Jill Craigie: Yes, I do recall them. Grierson and all that lot... yes, I met them.Interviewer (unid[…]
