Learning on ScreenGB Shaw
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- British Movietone News
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: George Bernard Shaw’s first visit to America. DESCRIPTION: GBS on his first visit to America talks to Movietone. SHOTLIST: Walks along drive up to camera, talks about the Mussolini look and shows how he can also look like this but fortunately doesn’t have to look like it all the time. Also tells how he gave his autograph to a little girl when he visited Wales. "Well this is a surprise, have you all come to see me.. ladies and gentlemen well I should never have expected this ... its extremely kind of you and I’m very glad to see you.. I’m very glad to have come as I like people to see me, I don’t know how it is but people who only know me from reading my books or sometimes see my plays get an unpleasant impression of me, and the people who meet me as you’ve been kind enough to meet me, when they see that I’m a most harmless person, I’m really a most kindly person, it’s not necessary for me to always look as genial as I’m trying to look now, of course I can put on the other thing (COVERS FACE WITH HANDS and glows at camera) ... Now that is what I call my Mussolini style, and by the way I think in justice to Mussolini I ought to tell you that he has a very wonderful head, a wonderful brow which comes down to here but the difficulty is that he can’t take it off...now if you watch me, I can put on that imposing look which terrifies you, a Mussolini look (plays to camera) but just watch I can take it off (Grins to camera) Mussolini cannot take it off he is condemned although he’s a most amiable man, he is condemned to go through life with that terrible and imposing expression which really does a great deal of injustice to his kindly nature. But I can put it on and I can take it off...and do all sorts of things. One thing of course that I’m really glad you’ve seen me here, that you will know me when you see me, I’ll tell you something that happened to me the other day ... I was at Conway in North Wales ... a little girl came over to me, she pulled out an autograph book and said "please give me your autograph" I said What do you want my autograph for ... I’m not Mr Lloyd George "Oh", she said " I know your not Mr Lloyd George" Well I said, who am I ... "I don’t know I’ve forgotten your name, but my Father told me to get your autograph" it’s quite possible that some little girl who is here on this occasion may imagine that she can get an autograph out of me that way, because I gave that little girl the autograph, but you won’t get me a second time. so it’s not the slightest use trying that on. Now ladies and Gentlemen I’m afraid I’m always an extremely busy man at least I pretend I am, and I’m afraid I must go back to work, I must say goodnight, by the way this may be a method, goodnight might not be the right thing to say, however, good afternoon, good-day, Good luck."
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- Curiosities; Writers
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- 825A
- Length of story (in feet)
- 333
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