24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One. Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 362[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-08-16Interview Date: 1995-08-02Interviewer: Sydney SamuelsonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commi[…]
[…]tually he did get the agency.Unknown Speaker 2:31 That's when I went over three weeks to Los Angeles,Unknown Speaker 2:39 and Sidney said to me, VI said, when you go there, he said, When you go in their design department. He said, They won't show you anything. He said, everyt[…]
[…]hey sent me over to work with an editor called Doug Myers, who was married to Thelma Connell, Thelma Myers.
Thelma Connell, yes, she was Frank and Sidney’s editor.
Yes, that’s right. Well Doug was cutting a film, the name of which I don’t remember, at Denham, and they said, ‘Oh his, his assist[…]
[…]Mr Samuelson was President.Roy Fowler : Yes, was that G.B. Samuelson?Ella Mallett : I couldn't say.Roy Fowler : I wondered if that were the father of Sidney and David. Because he was a producer and involved in a great many things. I don't know if you...Ella Mallett : I don't think they could have be[…]
[…] But that's how - and of course Mr Samuelson - Sidney Samuelson, who we were very, very fond of, and a […]
[…]ucer and producing company. And my mother was promptly put under contract to Cecil Hepworth. And as an aside here it's orange. Other interesting that Sidney Samuelson, do you know Sydney? Yes. Well, Sydney's father worked with Cecil Hepworth at this time. So it's right. So Sydney and Sydney's forebe[…]
[…]them and reshoot whatever scenes that had been shot before with someone else. Grainger was Apollodorus, Flora Robson was Ftatateeta, Basil Sidney was in it and of course Vivian Leigh. Although there was a day when Olivier laid him out, laid Pascal out because it was a very tens[…]
[…]k room. I found out that he was joining up, and he said, 'You may be able to get the job there,' which was what I wanted, and I and got the job under Sidney Blythe, who saw how keen I was and took a great interest and helped me a lot. Well, my first job was to wash out the tanks with hydrochloric ac[…]
