Orson Welles Sketchbook - Episode 3: The Police

[@GeneralOlde]

The more I learn about Orson Welles, the more awesome a person I realize he was.

[@Joseph-xt3el]

My favorite interviewed man ever.

[@paulbadoo9326]

His voice was amazing.

[@Jvirus12]

This is astonishing, and inspiring...how I wish there were someone I could vote for today that thought and spoke like this man.

[@therexbellator]

What an amazing commentary, not only for its relevance today (which is a sad commentary of our times) but also because he was saying this at a time when authorities and bureaucrats had so much power over the voiceless during that time. Remember, this was at the HEIGHT of McCarthyism -- Welles risked his career and livelihood by just saying anything even remotely deemed sympathetic to communism, which in those days would be just being pro-Civil Rights. I already loved Welles but seeing this for the first time my respect for him have grown 10 fold. What a remarkable man. God bless Orson Welles.

[@erlstone]

so very prophetic, I wonder if he could have imagined how "watched" we have become (and will become).

[@aperipatetic2827]

Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6PCcmmLf7eSaqM

[@backinthenewyorkblue]

It's almost scary how relevant all this still is.

[@karimtabrizi376]

yes

[@EklectikaAaynne]

Even more so today!!!!

[@totheknee]

Not according to the right wing in the US. They think that we need _more_ police harassment, not less.

[@pmu615]

@@totheknee not more police harassment but police protection from criminals. It's interesting how leftists are constantly purposely misrepresenting the actual views of conservatives. It's almost as if demonizing conservatives by accusing them of being for despicable things-thereby assuring people vote for their politicians based solely on their utter disdain for the other side-is easier for them than convincing people that their terrible policies and ideas are better for the country.

[@danielrae861]

Almost you say. It's been 8 years since you commented but 8 years is a blink of the eye in terms of police brutality - I had to respond to your naivety despite the time gap

[@doyougetmesweetheart3248]

Brilliant stuff - I've always really like Orson Welles - his movies contain the same kind of profound messages. He was so different from the rest. I really dug his analogy about a bureaucrat being like a blackmailer - "you can never pay him off, you see ..." he said. His reference to "red-tapism" and "the coppers" was very amusing. We are mistaken to believe we've come a long way - we have actually digressed; not progressed, regarding the amount of liberties we've lost since he made this video.

[@Sev826]

I think you mean regressed. But I digress.

[@cinexeon]

More timely than ever....... Sadly, contrary to what we would like to believe, he will still be persecuted today, in one way or the other.... for his total honesty and bravery as the most unflinching and sacrificed artist of our time.

[@AnnaLVajda]

He drank that is probably enough to persecute him though perfectly legal and I don't know he had a violent temper or anything. Personally it would not bother me I would probably gravitate to him at a party and try his French wine and listen to his stories with absolute delight.

[@blackharry6847]

Even so many years ago, his words are all the more relevant today

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I'm so glad these recordings still existed in the time of being available for BBC Four to screen then in the 21st Century. They could have easily fallen into the "Missing presumed wiped" category if they had been recorded to VT! Such a relief this wasn't the case. This episode in particular is still so relevant to today in 2023, since their recording in 1955, nothing much else has changed for the better.

[@pugmanplays]

Brilliant video, thank you for the upload

[@mashinglesboutons6220]

The unnamed country seems to be Spain, back then a militar dictatorship. The drawings are very fitting with that era's Guardia Civil attire, particularly the tricorne.

[@davidhull1481]

I think you’re right

[@Johnconno]

California?

[@sisterwendy]

Brilliant! What an amazing mind. He would have been a hell of a president.

[@kraken138]

Yeah, but his episodes with women could make Trump and Martin Luther King blush. He was x-rating 3-4 women a day for large portions of his life.

[@billharris1847]

@@kraken138 Everything I read says he was only in consensual relationships unlike a Clinton, Kennedy etc

[@kraken138]

@@billharris1847 Yeah, but I was referring to the countless infidelities and giving people VD's

[@billharris1847]

@@kraken138 How do you know that

[@kraken138]

@@billharris1847 I'm a big fan and have read the biographies and listened to interviews. Also...in this interview, she mentions getting, "The Clap," from Orson. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipXJeH2FlrqDotk

[@mvies77]

The same irritants which plague us tends to increase in successive generations. Nothing changes and only grows greater as a nuisance.

[@GiantSandles]

"Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground " - Orson Welles, 1955 Wow, prophetic

[@jfjoubertquebec]

Love the camera work. Vloggers pay attention!

[@ogcabbage6213]

Very well said so long ago .

[@cerdic6867]

Well he says the name of a theatre in the country he was visiting, the alla scalla, to the police. That is in milan so we know that said country was Italy.

[@bowlyyougottobelieve]

Wonder what he'd have to say about the Jacob Blake case happening now in his hometown of Kenosha.

[@moralnomad]

Thank you so much for uploading!!

[@spockboy]

Just found your channel. Love Mr Welles. Subscribed

[@michaeljarvis6882]

Thanks for airing this

[@Joseph-xt3el]

The police's job is to protect the freedom of the individual, not to chase criminals thats an incidental part of his job. Pure truth

[@NathanRHimself]

I wouldve loved to hear his opinion about Seattle this year

[@ModMokkaMatti]

That it was no longer nothing like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4OxoZSVq7mdiK8si=j5da33uTW7XBgZpN

[@MrBryan247]

Way ahead of his time.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

I have, as a general rule, always carried a copy of the Constitution and 'Common Sense' with me wherever I go. The same but different.

[@sera1917]

he was a legend ✨

[@RDFspaniard]

Is*

[@tomfreemanorourke1519]

All the eyes upon us are human yet different

[@retrothingz]

Sounds like Orson was already creating Hank Quinlan in his mind during this talk

[@rhettpeter83]

that's interesting. To me I relate it strongly with his adaptation of The Trial, and Josef K. With what he says about bureaucrats especially.

[@michaeljarvis6882]

Well said orson

[@andrewwilliams9599]

The film "made in four different countries" is probably Othello (1952)

[@ifandwhen-kl2cr]

+1

[@goonyougoodthing]

Haha. Atom bomb. Orson welles trolling like a sir

[@michaelmattice4986]

We who believe in freedom of speech, thought, and expression, are under attack from those who would banish all speech, thought, and expression, contrary to their own.

[@iraplikeyoubreathe]

Relevant

[@merlinjames5954]

The homie was really saying defund the police before it was cool

[@felixcat4346]

Ten years ago coming back to my country of orgin, the USA, I put down my address on a immigration card as 1600 Pensilvanya Avenue and was detained by immigration for 1 hour for this. Pathetic.

[@teodelfuego]

Joseph Nicholas was it for crimes against spelling?

[@nancyvalle2807]

maybe because your spelling of that famous avenue was so ..ignorant.. of "your own" address.

[@archangelang4772]

@Hank3four bruh

[@raginald7mars408]

Nietzsche called this Super Human Über Mensch incomprehensible for Normals

[@hadassah179]

Really appreciate what he did in bringing that racist cop to justice. As to the practical joke he was doing in Russia I was thinking of the same wonderful approach usually done by Gabriel Iglesias aka Fluffy.

[@aliofly]

Ta-Nehisi Coates brought me here

[@Vingul]

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a race grifter and a despicable person.

[@aliofly]

Vingul and you’re clearly a mug

[@Vingul]

@@aliofly no.

[@davidhull1481]

@@Vingul troll

[@therexbellator]

@@Vingul "Race grifter" is just racist code for "I don't like this person of color because they say things that make me uncomfortable."

[@PeterValentino]

Orson Welles is God.

[@depro9]

AHAHA dude was funny as fuck! "WHY im not an anarchist (hehe im really an anarchist!)"

[@joeybagodonuts6683]

41,000 views and less than 1,000 likes?

[@jaojao1768]

7:55

[@dantebond8124]

"That policeman was the exception" how unfortunate that that exception has become the majority.

[@reveilleamerica3589]

This isn't The Garden of Eden

[@galesayers]

1909. Google the name Dr W.E.B. Dubois.

[@kraken138]

The "golden 10 percent,?"

[@Natendowii]

Orson Welles: Enemy of the State.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

He expands on this theme in The Trial (1962): dai.ly/x6mofjm

[@sclogse1]

After viewing this, I wonder what year the NAACP came into being.

[@MariaT6317]

1909

[@martinhanley9524]

Espana un pais incredible

[@37Dionysos]

Bet he just loved his visits to Israel. "What were your great-grandfather's political views? Are you sympathetic to people robbed of their human rights?"

[@TRUCKER_TRUCKER]

Intolerable nuisance....

[@spactick]

Orson my dear, it's their country. If you wanna enter 'their' country it's only reasonable to answer a few general questions as to who you are and why you want to enter 'their' country. Remember Orson sweetie, it's not your 'right' to enter anyone else's country if they don't want you in there

[@iria2663]

We’ve gone from no passports to vaccine passports.

[@hetmanjz]

Oh dear, preserving public health is such an inconvenience.

[@spactick]

I think Welles would have made a good VP for Trump. What a ticket that would have been

[@spactick]

@@ModMokkaMatti That's really unfair to call Welles a Nazi. He deserves better than that QuadMocha etc;

[@kateetakea2285]

7 communists...

[@davidhull1481]

Walk in to a bar?