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Philip Dann worked for Film and Television Divisions, of the Central Office of Information (COI) [qv]. His earliest credit is as producer for an issue of the Portrait series, ‘A HELICOPTER NAVIGATOR’, released in 1964. The following year he worked on ‘COMPUTERS AND CONTROL’, Frontier No.7 (1965) and ‘RADIO ASTRONOMY’, Frontier No.9 (1965), part of a science series made for overseas distribution and sponsored by the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO) [qv]. During the late 1960s he regularly worked on another COI series, the technicolor cinemagazine Roundabout. His earliest credit for this series is ‘VSOS IN MALAYSIA’, Roundabout No.54, released in November 1966.

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NoS Number 324973; Frontier Number 7; Date released 1965: NoS Number 324975; Frontier Number 9; Date released 1965: NoS Number 327479; Portrait Number 32; Date released 1964. NoS Number 327765; Roundabout Number 54; Date released November 1966.