[…],….I was approached by somebody who said “I’m John Betjeman” and I said ‘oh yes?’ I’ve never heard of John Betjeman the poet. And he said “I’m in the Ministry of Information at the moment, I want to see you”. So I said ‘oh yes’. Anyway, I made an appointment, I went to see him. He expects to see a s[…]
[…]t I saw one of the documentary films about 20 years ago that I had made and it was so dreadful. We made films for, of course, what was then the Ministry of Information and then the Central Office of Information, and like every other documentary film you were contracted to do that, and I rememb[…]
[…]and some basic tape machines of the day. We had a couple of EMIs. Later on he got two very good Ampex machines which had had won from the Ministry of Defence and they had converted these machines I should think for very secretive purposes to run at such an incredibly slow speed – you cou[…]
[…]the materials those had the new materials were developed and we were we were much better fat and that made a film on electron beam welding. Which the ministry here were very keen on it was a very simple film just to show the electron being well it was about to train our people to show people outside[…]
[…]h it. Which we do it. And it was quite amazing when we saw that people were falling over each other and dropping shells. And as a result of which the Ministry increased the rate of gunfire over London by quite an amount.Another thing, dear old Dave Harcourt did this, I'm sure you know Dave, there wa[…]
[…]off into the Cunninghams where I was I was in New York and it was basically working on a effective in nearly all was government documentaries for the Ministry of Information. It was it was the editor the end there was a woman called and so they Cummins believe she's no longer with us. She married an[…]
[…]n the crown film and it was formed. In fact, the GPO for a minute, I'm pretty certain that they were actually commandeer, they were taken over by the Ministry of Information and renamed the Crown film in it. And in fact, I saw a film once where they it the beginning it said GPO Film Unit prese[…]
[…] Funny you should mention those, I was about to ask you. Did any of your films go into the archives? Now when I was in the, working for the Ministry of Agriculture, certainly the hedging and ditching films were still in the library... Margaret Thomson 38:22 Where they real[…]
