Ann Meo

[…]but he’s a very nice boy and I’m going to move him sideways and I don’t want to hurt his feelings and we must do it so that he’s got a move up’, etc, etc.  So we went through this farce and Francis was sent to tell me, ‘I’ve got a wonderful new job, they’re talking me off this television quiz b[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]e and he came back and said there had been a whip round amongst all these girls for this poor British boy who was stranded in a foreign country, etc, etc. And they put the hat round and would I please make a speech of thanks. And I was very embarrassed about the whole thing and said No I can't do th[…]

Roy Parkinson

[…]t days still.RP: Silent days, oh yes rather. My father was then making a number of series: Wonderful London, Wonderful Britain, London Cabarets, etc., of which there are about 26 of them in the National Film Archive. SC: What sort of length were those?RP: One reelers. I've got the catalogu[…]

Sydney Samuelson

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 […]
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