Film of G.K. Chesterton at Worcester College

You can now buy all four of the recorded speeches of GK Chesterton on CD or as individual MP3 downloads at CDBaby:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/gkchesterton

This is actual film footage in it's entirety of G.K. Chesterton being made an honorary Holy Cross Crusader by Worcester College on May 1st, 1931. I'm sorry for the poor quality, but I had to purchase this footage from the archives of an English film company, and I couldn't afford the high quality version (more than $500). I have some stills of the higher quality version however, and have interjected a couple of them into the film where there were missing frames.

G.K. Chesterton was an author and journalist during the early part of the 20th century. He is best known for his "Father Brown" stories, a novel called "The Man Who Was Thursday", and a Christian view of the history of ancient art, culture, religion, and anthropology called "The Everlasting Man". The latter was the book C.S. Lewis said helped him the most in his own spiritual studies.

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[tarshodcrow]

Is the newsreel of GKC available for purchase?

[gmdinformation]

Pathe Films has it. It costs around $500 to get a high quality copy, and I don't think it comes with sound. I got the sound from a guy in Canada who got it from a different news agency in GB (I don't know which one).

I think it may also appear in Dale Alquist's GKC film which you can buy at his website. Google him.

[csungerrie]

Have you put out the CD?

[gmdinformation]

Yep, it's available now not only on CD, but it's already starting to show up as MP3 downloads at various online distributers such as iTunes where you can get each of the four tracks for a dollar each. And I want to make it clear to everybody that I'm keeping these tracks in the public domain, so you can copy the CD for friends or use the tracks in documentaries or whatever for free.

[CaptainDesiderio]

What year was this?

[gmdinformation]

May 1st, 1931.

[MhicWombat]

Chesterton has gotten me through my life if, via nothing else, his lucid comment, "I think I shall not hang myself today." And amazing and amusing man.

[Jim1905]

"If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you."

- HG Well's in a letter to GK Chesterton

[Giorgi Kvatchadze]

God bless you Justin! I am so glad that there are people who read these wonderful masterpieces by the great thinker and truly colossal Christian apologist.

[Giorgi Kvatchadze]

Hardly can my words express the deserved gratitude to the uploader for giving us this unique opportunity to see and listen to one of the most colossal intellectuals and brilliant men that ever walked on the planet earth.

[SorokChyetirye]

Aye. What our brothers of other religious sorts need is an advocate and a friend, rather than a critic. A critic shows a man how hellbound he is. A friend tries to bring a man to Heaven. Just my two cents.

[Marty Zang]

Awesome

[Sirene S]

"I'm not much of a Crusader but at least I'm not a Mohammedan"

Brilliant!

Long live Chesterton!

Long live the Crusades!

[alforje]

everyone should read his books

[Perranporth]

He's buried a few miles from where I live, and I've been to his grave before.