Sydney Samuelson talks about the life and career of his father, the Lancashire-born film pioneer GB Samuelson.

Presenter Chris Kelly talks to Sidney Samuelson, chairman and chief executive of Samuelsons Film Service, about the pioneering days of his father, George Berthold (GB) Samuelson, as a film renter-turned-producer. From early days in Southport, GB Samuelson pounced on opportunities such Edward the VII's funeral to supply local cinemas with profitable films, eventually tring his hand at the new feature films.

His first feature, A Study in Scarlet (1914), based on the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes novel, was filmed with Southport Sands standing in for Salt Lake City. His biggest roduction was Rider Haggard's She (1925), made as a German co-prduction. The interview also includes clips of Damaged Goods (1919) and If Youth But Knew (1926). Sidney Samuelson explains how the coming of sound put independent producers under impossible financial strain.

Sydney Samuelson, Chairman and Chief Executive of Samuelsons Film Service Ltd,
a film facilities business based in Cricklewood, London, talks about the life
and career of his father, the Lancashire-born film pioneer George Berthold
Samuelson 1889-1947.