ABSTRACT
The flow of educated talent through the universities and out into industry in the inter-war years was subject to various forces working either to benefit industry and the graduate or positively hindering them. High figures for the early 1920s reflect not so much good business conditions as the movement into jobs of the ex-serviceman generation which was highly orientated towards science, technology and industry. At Durham of the post-graduates of 1924-34, two out of seven in the 1920s and four out of six in the 1930s went into industry. The film industry is of some interest as an essentially 'new' industry trying to break American domination and turning to the graduate to help it to do so. Although an industry of very varied and haphazard entry, some attempts were made to attract graduates even in the early 1920s.
