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[…]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[…]

[…]s said I think the best place for the UN for you to go is on the Ministry of Information building Mallet Street. He said I'm sure that's a higher spot[…]

[…]; Well, because I’d been an instructor and I’d done the advanced instructors course and all that, they then said to me there was a vacancy at the Air Ministry for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was pos[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]0:14:0900:14:5800:15:1700:16:0900:16:48SAMUELSON: Same department, different names in so much as originally it was the DTI and then it became ... the Ministry that was set up and was called the Ministry of Fun which was for David Mellor torun. And that was called the Department of National Heritage […]

[…]me.Sidney Cole: Do you remember how the audience reacted to the film at all?Tom Peacock: Well if you remember at the time they used to send out these Ministry of Information films nearly every other week. So when they showed you a film about Our Film it would only to them be another film, but to the[…]

[…]n September, the war broke out, and a sort of tremor, rather went through the studio. It was to what would happen. But very soon they started to do a ministry of information, shorts, Army shorts. And during 1940 they all as well as these various moi shorts, they also made five feature films, which w[…]