[…] interview, conducted in 1995, Erica masters discusses her career with Sydney Samuelson. She gives an interesting account of her early years, […]
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[…]
[…]new tape on cos we’re getting toward the end.00:40:3700:41:12END OF SIDE 6SIDE 7The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History project Sydney Samuelson CBE - Entrepreneur - Chairman of Samuelson Film Service Interviewer Alan Lawson00:00:0200:00:17Q: We’re onto tape four now. Erm, I di[…]
[…], I used to go to his private house in crespig Me road to service his few cameras. TheseRoy Fowler 36:57 for the record. We're talking of Sydney. We're talking of Sydney for the record. Sydney. Samuelson, yes, but Rick didn't mind. No, no, you said, Mr. Samuelson, so I'm just establishin[…]
[…]we got casual labourers when necessary. We arrived in Freemantle where we disembarked because we weren't going to go all round Australia on a boat to Sydney. We unloaded everything at Freemantle and we stayed the night there I think and then we went off by aircraft to Sydney. And when we arrived in […]
[…] with this camera and he's a good chap to interview, Sydney Samuelson and David Samuelson. Taffy Haines: Can I interrupt you […]
[…] film, it was called er 'Crime Over London', with Basil Sydney and Margot Grahame, and er...Anyway, Douglas Fairbanks, he gave […]
[…]ack. Anyway, Mr Garside, he said "Right! A third time - you're out!" Anyway, at the end of the film, it was called er 'Crime Over London', with Basil Sydney and Margot Grahame, and er...Anyway, Douglas Fairbanks, he gave me a fiver, and I...cor! that was like, ooh, you know, absolutely marvellous. H[…]
[…]d 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 forebears go back in the same way as[…]