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[…]s]. So he said, "That's a good idea. I'll go along with that." So he gave us a double-feature programme, which they'd been running, and an up-to-date newsreel. And we unloaded all these ancient old films. And he was so happy because he could open the theatre you see. And so could we. So we did this.[…]

[…]ut War in the Air in the air was different in a way that the same restrictions weren't there, and dear old Dick Cawston who used to do the children's newsreel  that we did from mostly that I remember because I moved to Lime Grove. And later did loads of productions  with Dick Cawston  […]

[…]o. In no way. We had no radios in no way where we allowed to know what was happening in the world.SPEAKER: M1So you didn't see any of the traditional newsreels.SPEAKER: M11No we didn't see the British news. We would have either a Popeye's short or a Mickey Mouse short or the seekers of life nature. […]

[…]o work I went as an editor to the Office of War Information, which was the American equivalent of the MOI. And what they were doing was turning out a newsreel every week for the advancing troops to take into the liberated towns. So we were getting stuff from the American frontline photographers, cam[…]

[…]as a world first, a first time. We made the first 3-D travelogue, the first ballet film, the first animated cartoon, the first sports film, the first newsreel, first 3-D advertising film, and so on. Most ambitious of these films I think was our 3-D ballet film called The Black Swan, which featured B[…]