[…]ll good, build up a bit of cash, I thought, right, I’ll start again. That Summer I was applying through [inaud] to see what I could pick up and I was trying to do sociology, but I didn’t have a maths O’Level, so I didn’t go to Bristol, I didn’t go to Bangor, and I thought, well look, why don’t I go […]
[…]y very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and I couldn’t see any way of combining them it just…I was go[…]
[…]eat Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler: Oh really? E.M. Smedley-Aston: ...which as you know now come over Ogil[…]
[…]ateur group or something similar?Gerald Chambers  7:01  No, no, I can remember taking part in something which was a kind of pageant of industry, which they, they had I think it was probably towards the end of the war, but I don't really know. Other than other than going to Sheffield Playho[…]
[…]y because that way I was able to get a job, I mean, I had no money and no background, nothing. And I wrote to every single newspaper in the country and abroad…I:   Can I stop you a second? Why newspapers?  R:   Well I…yes, why? Because I went…in[…]
[…]n me, so I didn't stick to one thing, although now that I am older I think it probably would have been better if I had stuck to one thing rather than try to do all the things I’ve tried to do, but I was so interested in everything. I think that I was very musical and that helped and I was always mak[…]
[…]25 years later Ann Turner who was John Reid's secretary told me that John Reid had had a letter, a memorandum from Mary Adams saying thanking you for trying out young Attenborough. He's quite good and he's obviously reasonably intelligent but he can't have a future in television because unfortunatel[…]
[…]or your old man um he told me he ran a coach company.SAMUELSON: Yes. He ran this coach company when I suppose one of the regular crisis that our industry goes through and always has done and I suppose always will and there was a situation that my father analysed, the railways at that time were expen[…]
[…]do with men, because they’re busy.'  They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, and that’s how I came into the industry. I’m not very clever, I’m only average, but I got on in the industry - I got known - and in the end if there was anything going someone would give[…]
[…]a lawyer or journalist or something exalted like that. It reminds of the Desmond Dickinson story "don't tell my nother, I'll working in the film industry, she thinks I've an honest job playing a piano in a brothel."AL: What were your duties?SC: I was given an extradinary silly job for someone , no h[…]
