George Bernard Shaw's first visit to America

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Same generation as Oscar Wilde, both were also born in Dublin and were Irishmen.

[@thomasmacginnes100]

If you grew up in the 60’s you’d have had to know of Wilde’ for there were many Emulators Sprouting at that time, they were a relatively moral lot at least in the Emoting Sense and Witty as well… so we liked them.. but what has become of the day ? Were we all fermenting in Darkness of any Light? Can’t (agree) with the Batch who’ve just a’Woke ! it brings to Ruins’ everything You are attempting to Express.\

[@gmmaal7161]

you just have to love this man - thanks for sharing this filmclip.

[@colescott8756]

He was anything but a, "man". He was monstrous example of what a human being could become. He was a crazed Nazi supporting lunatic, who wanted kill people, "who didn't give back to society". Read about your heroes first bud.

[@HassoBenSoba]

Yeah, a real witty "humanist"..right? The darling of the artistic elitists in society; EVERYBODY worships this guy, right? And like all "enlightened" elitists, he was an advocate of Eugenics, as can be seen in this fragmentary interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j57MZKijftRgqa8si=QE-B58w8suFwftUq. I can just hear it now: Social Engineers of the World, Unite!

[@gmmaal7161]

You are right. I was shocked when I first learned about this. Along with Bertrand Russell (against the catholic views of Chesterton) and others, Shaw held certain views I can not support. Shaw also supported Stalin and thus provoked the hatred of the Trotzky supporters. I think Shaw was wrong. However, if you read the introduction to "Methusela" it is clear that Shaw's views were more advanced than the views of his contemporaries. I also love Shaw for his non-elitism. He was anti-paedagogical and in this respect, he should be called anti-humanist, a view that I support. He was known for saying: Those who can - do; those who cannot - teach. He left school at fourteen and never looked back. He was what the Americans call a self-made man. A role model still for those who are not the darlings of society!

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, and although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. These stances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of often ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success. In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left-he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946. Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion has varied about his works, but he has regularly been rated as second only to Shakespeare among British dramatists; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word Shavian has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them.

[@Daisy-ct3nh]

He was an Irish dramatist.

[@lullabyemoon]

He was a disgusting Socialist at best! You fail to tell about the "real" Bernard Shaw.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZjTkn6hp7-YrpY

[@peterhall6656]

and a gargantuan egotist as Russell perceived.

[@accidentalpatient4152]

Okay thanks for copy and pasting Wikipedia, I'm sure those who looked for the video were well aware

[@debajyoti.guha_bong]

I can see where Rowan Atkinson got his schooling of humour from.

[@HernandeztheHero]

I wish to acquire this without the watermarks, also I want the full reel were he talks about justifying your existence. I want to do a documentary, is it possible to get these?

[@andythenerd3527]

You can find this particular clip on this set: www.amazon.com/More-Treasures-American-Archives-1894-1931/dp/B0002JP1VW

[@deeannemason7003]

Eli Hernandez kzbin.info/www/bejne/eF6vm56lncSpo6c

[@saviodesilva7933]

Ohh we love him ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for uploading this video.

[@blakereneehope]

everything about this guy is sketchy. Even the entrance from the dark woods.

[@ALIENDNA14]

+ Howard Films You took the very words, right out of my mouth... He's a transparently priggish, quasi-elitist, whimsically self-aware satirist, while also being very much self-aware of the deterministically egoic failings, of his own personality... Or, although his inner most authoritarian\tyrannical personality just seems to naturally oozes out of him, without much resistance; nevertheless, he's also still quite noticeably or impressively self-aware in this footage, and to such an extent, that it would also seem quite ignorant - on our part, from an outsider's perspective - if we were to just foolishly overlook, willy-nilly, his gargantuanly influential literary legacy...

[@God-mb8wi]

@@ALIENDNA14 and the thing about that is, that it's interesting that, because of the thing, which although it isn't clear--for reasons unknown--that it were clearly true that, were it to have been something completely different in the situation in which--for reasons unknown--the thing which is of discussion right now would be of the opinion that--for reasons unknown--we're not sure particularly what the thing, which although unknown to us, etc. etc. etc. that's how you talk lol

[@deekshachoudhary4159]

@@God-mb8wi agree :D

[@docastrov9013]

@@ALIENDNA14 You are an idiot.

[@GiffysChannel]

Well, he did advocate for the creation of a government panel that would require everyone to justify their existence before it. If they failed to do so, Shaw thought those people should be killed by the state. Not sketchy at all lol

[@EveSou]

يخي هالكاتب احبه هو وشخصيته المرحة كلش 🥺

[@jamesmccormack1433]

He's got that rambling way of speaking that I could listen to for hours on end

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

I thought of "Good afternoon, good evening and good night".

[@naaoinitiative2021]

Gosh, what a speech! Each moment he delivers his words establishes why he is one of the greatest playwright of all time.

[@basedspaceman7077]

Also a Hitler supporting psycho.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

@@basedspaceman7077 Watch, "The Greatest Story Never Told", my friend.

[@-albertstoica-]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j57MZKijftRgqa8

[@PC-lu3zf]

My Jewish grandmother knew Shaw he was a friendly man my mum said. But he could get into a temper easily.

[@Robcremvidz78]

Shaw was pro Hitler in the mid 30s

[@vknight7497]

One of the most wicked human beings ever.

[@dopemanscientistprod.7417]

why? im no troll. just curious as im studying opinion ...also a writer of many sorts. dopemanSCIENTIST prod [subscribe]

[@bowlingballmagic]

dopemanSCIENTIST prod. He was a useful idiot to Stallin

[@johnoh1667]

He was all for eugenics. This was the time when Hitler's government looked at how America was dealing with eugenics in deleting those they figured did not fit into society for one or another failing... kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKqlfYVtqdmtqLM Those running (ruining) the world today, think in exactly the same way as Bernard Shaw and all the other Eugenicists of the 19th / 20th centuries.

[@carriedawn9481]

@@RetroFrequency I have read a book called "The Passing Of An Illusion" which is where I found out Shaw visited Russia and was treated like royalty by Stalin. It seems that Stalin did this with influential people of the time to try to paint a pretty picture to the outside world of what was happening in Russia when in reality Stalin's communist policies were murdering its own people either by firing squad or by starvation. Communism does that to a country. Bernard Shaw was flattered into rationalizing and accepting mass murder for the belief that you can create heaven on earth apart from God.

[@RetroFrequency]

@@carriedawn9481 Yeah, someone pointed me to a video where he was praising Hitler and telling people not to be concerned about the Germans (right before WW2)... safe to say I was VERY wrong in my assumptions about Shaw, and I retract my defence of him. What you said is interesting... so he was fond of both the Nazis AND the communists... imagine being so diehard authoritarian that the ideology is completely irrelevant as long as you get to be a monster.

[@diogenes9771]

"Now, that is what I call my Mussolini stunt." Hey, George Bernard Shaw: quit stealing my moves!

[@orbithesun1]

One who does not trust or respect nature, is a freak of nature. Hell is loaded with those who smiled and laughed. But he who laughs last, laughs longest.

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

Love Shaw! If I knew him , I know we’d be friends!

[@occamsstubble]

Um, you see this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIK7cqSGa7eYp7s

[@asingh6947]

@@occamsstubble are you butthurt because you can't justify your existence? Seemingly not

[@matthubbard9330]

Yeah, you guys could hang out and come up with new and exicting ways of mass murdering people the collective deems undesirable. Like he did with the gas chamber...... kzbin.info/www/bejne/j57MZKijftRgqa8

[@Gorrgon]

The date is wrong. It is 1928 this happened.

[@mikelheron20]

Why would they choose to play the British Grenadier as an introduction to an interview with George Bernard Shaw?

[@Gorrgon]

The wrong date on here. This was 1928.

[@irinaleimbacher7371]

This was shot in 1928 and not in America...

[@sultansultan3558]

A sophisticated, polite and elegant person🌷

[@laddakang5264]

Great personality

[@gremista]

honest question. ia it possible that this is/was his real voice? i think it sound like some narrator was reading his words

[@TheTrainFan9]

It is his real voice. This was recorded on a sound-on-film system that the Fox Film Corporation was using as early as 1926 for newsreels. The video's title is wrong, this was recorded in 1928.

[@lokeshlokhi5533]

👌

[@ejslemp5342]

He looks like Stewie with a bubble beard

[@sunsun118]

you were wonderful and continue wonderful as well

[@degreyt1685]

this guy is pure evil

[@GlossaME]

Was. And you're wrong

[@timmyteague1162]

heck id like to see some of his both sides seems like he plays for both sides from what i herd praying marxism and then acting like a goof on this one hey maby his way of saying i am human i am much younger than regular audience so im sure im out of tune on his history butt i seen some truth to some of his b.s. he speaks some truth

[@ViolentFEAR]

What the fuck are you on about, mate? ^^

[@GlossaME]

@@ViolentFEAR rambling

[@Jack-uo7gz]

George Bernard Shaw was a horrible human being who made some incredible art.

[@humblegirl84]

I didn't know he was an actor. Wish I didn't try to find him on KZbin

[@timeandattention3945]

All the world is a stage

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Mussolini has a wonderful chin.

[@GreenDistantStar]

He was a cruel and despicable man.

[@lucasgrey9794]

He was a good man.

[@GlossaME]

Proof

[@-albertstoica-]

This man should not be appreciated by anyone, there's a clip of him on KZbin he expresses himself that a person who isn't bringing any benefit to the State Government he shouldn't be alive. he hated humans his in the pit with the devil

[@lmbdivision]

George Bernard shaw with this is fucking beach fucking beach

[@blxnco684]

this guy is so weird and i felt so much cringe

[@docastrov9013]

Get back to me when you've written a number of timeless classic plays.

[@rosemariemann1719]

Blanco, I thought he was sweet ! Funny, charming. No cringe here ! I liked his play " Press Cuttings "... "...If you have any trouble, shoot them down...." ( or something like that ! Arthur Lowe played the main character) 🇬🇧😊🌎💕🌿🇬🇧

[@ben-ow3ow]

@@rosemariemann1719 im not sure what the union jack has much to do with anything.

[@lpowers]

It's like he doesn't understand mass media and is inviting everybody to get up in his business.

[@melissagibbs7800]

What an Evil man

[@hunterbidensellingusa4778]

"The Obsolete Man" is episode 65 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone --- Justify YOUR existence (George B. Shaw). Same meaning only using different wording. Many of the liberal, progressive, socialist, democratic mindset would love to be in judgement seated on these panels. Looks like Trudeau has passed his own judgement on the truckers. Could YOU pass this test of being useful? Or, are you Obsolete?