GB Shaw

[martpast1]

WHAT IS SO EVIL IN HIM?--that he was talented and u r not???

[chase82]

He's no sweet old comudgen. He's a rotten filthy murderous old man.

[Quex01]

What a self obsessed clown!

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I cannot tell how glad I am that all the other poets like Homer, Shakespeare, Euripides, Schiller, Molière or Goethe lived in an age where there was no television; and I hate to admit it (and it is your fault alone Monsieur Nietzsche for destroying all illusions about artists as brave heroic individuals, which stood against the world for the sake of beauty, wisdom, truth and their art as the incarnation of al this): But Shakespeare does look on his pictures to be the same kind of coxcomb!

[PartlyCloudy101]

WAKE UP! this man was the Devil!

[PartlyCloudy101]

"Wonderful man" "extraordinary mind"...? This man was the very embodiement of the devil. A truly evil man, the roots of the modern progressive movement. Wrongly educated and brain washed people are the problem. WAKE UP!

[al1936ful]

e is being tongue-in-cheek. He is not being serious. He likes to pull the audience's leg and see how far he can go. Never, ever, take his more outrageous statements seriously. He is being funny. Do you really think that a man who makes fun of Mussolini with that crack about the "Mussolini look" can really admire him?

Mussolini was the one with no sense of humor. He would have pulverized Shaw if he had realized that the author was actually insulting him.

[al1936ful]

@al1936ful Sorry, that should read "He is being tongue-in-cheek".

[ladyshaw777]

I lived at Shaw's home Shaw's Corner for 8 years when I was Custodian of the property. It was marvellous imagining him walking & talking in the house & garden & having slept in his bed one night, it was the best nights sleep ever.

best sleep ever.

[MacJaxonManOfAction]

He is SO completely unlike the GBS I imagined. Fascinating video.

[thekittensx]

yeah :D i love him even more now :)

[Rudel1903]

Shaw isn H*rensohn...

[somecallmeRudy]

Haha! Brilliant! Just goes to show good comedy never gets old. The bit about Mussolini was ironic genius.

[cleaverwielder]

Can't say this footage didn't dissapoint me a little bit. Having read his work I came to revere this image of a dry, cynical intellectual. Instead he appears charming, affable, warm, friendly, fun loving, It was both a pleasent surprise and a dissapointment. Still wonderfull man, extraordinary mind.

[theballoonguy32]

Harpo (of the Marx Brothers) wrote a book - "Harpo Speaks" In his life he got to mix socially with some incredible celebrities in the first half of the 1900's... crediting it to the fact that he was a good listener.

He relates some nice insights to his time with Shaw. The thought of Shaw and Harpo having talking while eating is a strange image.

[NGS712]

theballoon: 'The thought of Shaw and Harpo having talking while eating is a strange image.'

Almost worthy of a movie in itself. Or even a play. ;)

[violentsilence4u]

he was irish... which is always a contradiction...

[stater68]

He was in fact an evil man with evil intentions

[kim8040]

@cleaverwielder Yea - He just Advocated for Gas Chambers !

Pesky Details !

Just a wonderful man ? I guess if you are from the 9th level of Hell

[intelligenceseeker]

This is awesome. I love his writing sometimes. :)

[usernamesarehard]

Great video.

"A lifetime of happiness, no man could bear it; it would be Hell on Earth"

[theinnerlight87]

Absolutely wonderful, the man was a comical genius!

[afegane]

very good!

thanks for this!

[golgo13]

time capsule...

[geneclart1]

Klaxon sound at 0.51secs. little things like that can tell us more about those times than whats happening in the foreground

[logicdestroyerofgods]

We go slowly back in time, and them who lived we find something greater.

[prabhurams]

wov...thanks balloonguy for taking time to reply, the sceen really fits your description !

[prabhurams]

was there audience in front of him ??? its so strange !

[theballoonguy32]

In the early days of movie theatres (pre-tv), they'd run news stories as well as clips like this along with the main features, coming attractions, etc. I figure Shaw was "speaking" to these movie house adiences.