Learning on ScreenMr Bernard Shaw Discovers America
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- British Movietone News
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- 2 / 6
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mr Bernard Shaw Discovers America. DESCRIPTION: On his first visit to US, GBS quickly disposes of one or two questions at San Francisco. SHOTLIST: CU of GBS speaking. Q. What do you think about the ... A. "I don’t think about it much, it doesn’t keep me awake at nights, but of course it has produced an interesting result, it has enabled Japan to smash the League of Nations, I mean of course the diplomatic side of the League of Nations, which was going to put a stop to war". Q. GBS is asked a question about women ..."What do you think of Tec ..." A. "Well it is really so long since I heard about it - fifty years, that I’m hardly up to date on the subject". Q. "I mean ... do you think that women have caused anything but trouble in the world ..." A. "Well you see there are a great many women in the world, and I have not been in their intimate confidence as you seem to suggest. Do you suppose that any man that is not a lunatic, would publicly undertake to answer about women, what would you think of a woman if she undertook to say what men think throughout the world. You really are the most extraordinary lot of infants ..."
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- Mass media; Writers
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- Movietone
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- 2326
- Length of story (in feet)
- 96
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