George Bernard Shaw, sonore, 1928

Mai 1928. Toute première apparition filmée sonore de George Bernard Shaw, critique musical, dramaturge, essayiste, auteur de pièces de théâtre et scénariste irlandais. George Bernard Shaw speaks to Movietone News in his first ever sound film appearance. Filmed in May of 1928.
Rushes de Fox Movietone. Archives commercialisées par Film Images (www.film-images.fr).
"... I like people to see me. I don't know how it is but people who only know me from reading my books or sometimes even from seeing my plays get the most unpleasant impression on me and the people who really meet me, as you have been kind enough to meet me and to meet me now, well, they see that I'm a most harmless person, I'm quite a kindly person you know. But still, it is not necessary for me always to look as genial as I'm trying to look now. Of course, I can put on the other thing - for instance. That is what I call my Mussolini stance. By the way, I think in justice to Senior Mussolini, I ought to tell you that he has a very wonderful hair. He has a wonderful brow which comes down to here. That the difficulty is that he can't take it off. Now if you watch me, I can put on that imposing look that terrifies. The Mussolini look. Now just watch. I can take it off. Now, Senior Mussolini cannot take it off. He is condemned, although he is a most amiable man. He is condemned to go through life with that terrible and imposing expression which really does a great deal of injustice to his kindly nature. But I, I can put it on, and I can take it off, and do all sorts of things ..."
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