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[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] before we took er Television House over from the Air Ministry, and er...I was in charge of er...Norman Dixon was […]

[…] remember at the time they used to send out these Ministry of Information films nearly every other week. So when they showed […]

[…]hen the British aircraft is shown, and it's run the aircraft then we're all the all the new British aircraft and fighter planes were organised by the Ministry of Supply. So we had to make friends with the Ministry of Supply and the society of aircraft constructors. They are directors a man called Ed[…]

[…],….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[…]