Personalities: Old newsreel star, Mr George Bernard Shaw, presents himself in US interview
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 11
- Section Title
- Personalities
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Old Newsreel Star Interviewed. SHOTLIST: GB Shaw walking past camera and seating himself. He speaks to interviewer. CU speaking. "It’s no good in this country putting questions of national importance to me, I’ve been here before, I’ve told you what to do and you haven’t done it and you’re up to your neck in trouble as a consequence. Well I tell you again, get rid of you constitution but I suppose you won’t do it. You have a good President and you have a bad constitution, and the bad constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be that you might as well have an English Prime Minister."
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Curiosities; Writers
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 4259
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Brian B. Saveall
- Length of story (in feet)
- 57
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'Personalities: Old newsreel star, Mr George Bernard Shaw, presents himself in US interview', British Movietone News Issue No. 350, 17 Feb 1936. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/6202 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)