This was moist excellent! I particularly loved the banter of Sir Walters two great great great great grand daughters as they discussed him and his apparel, so charming!
Much heartened by your comment. Omnibus used to make films where the subjects could speak for themselves, unadorned, and without the need of filtration via some vacuous presenter!
Two wonderful ladies were Sir Walter's great-great-great-granddaughters. Just wonderful. I watched this for the history of Sir Walter, but it's also delightful watching for the documentary itself, the feel, the mood, presentation, the people involved. The old documentaries have a nostalgia unto themselves.
Many thanks for your comment, much appreciated! It is really interesting and reassuring to see how an ‘old documentary’ can still connect and resonate with a contemporary audience. There was no requirement to ‘confect’ or as some would say ‘infect’ the film with unnecessary personalities or a ‘celebrity’ presenter - ie those better known for flogging hair colouring or cooking products - but to let the film be a conduit to comprehension. Let the contributors speak for themselves and let the viewer make their own discoveries and connections. The BBC used to be rather good at this sort of programme making but as they seem to have abandoned audiences with a sentient cortex they are now very hard to find in the schedules.
Marvelous! Marvelous presentation of his life and significance. It well filled in the gaps or further explained circumstances of his life and history as I had previously known and understood it! Thank you so much! Just wonderful!
When I was a child, I read "Ivanhoe"--but suspect it was in a bowdlerized version for little kids, because I had also read Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped"--and at the time *thought* that I understood and enjoyed it. However, as an adult, I've reread the latter work and found that that it was so much tied up with Scottish history that I could not have really understood it. I wonder now if the same thing would happen if I went back to "Ivanhoe," or to any of Scott's other novels.
Hey! So was I! I was a handsome devil : ) The last time I travelled to Edinburgh I noticed 2 women sat side by side in the train, one in blue, the other in red. Never before in my life nor since that day have train doors refused to open(!?) forcing us to continue on and get out at Waverley Station. Random Coincidence? I'm thinking not. In my next life 1835-61, I was an Attorney at Law.
if I wanted someone to experience Scotts genius I would never suggest they read "waverly" first (thats the novel "waverly" not the "waverly novels") It would've put me off him immediately, they should read "Old Mortality" first if they want an idea of why Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, Irving, and every other author on the planet read Scott and chose to write like him.."Waverly" isn't devoid of interest, but it isn't Scott. (mind you I haven't read his more known ones, ivanhoe etc, but I plan to.)
This was moist excellent! I particularly loved the banter of Sir Walters two great great great great grand daughters as they discussed him and his apparel, so charming!
Much heartened by your comment. Omnibus used to make films where the subjects could speak for themselves, unadorned, and without the need of filtration via some vacuous presenter!
Two wonderful ladies were Sir Walter's great-great-great-granddaughters. Just wonderful. I watched this for the history of Sir Walter, but it's also delightful watching for the documentary itself, the feel, the mood, presentation, the people involved. The old documentaries have a nostalgia unto themselves.
Many thanks for your comment, much appreciated! It is really interesting and reassuring to see how an ‘old documentary’ can still connect and resonate with a contemporary audience. There was no requirement to ‘confect’ or as some would say ‘infect’ the film with unnecessary personalities or a ‘celebrity’ presenter - ie those better known for flogging hair colouring or cooking products - but to let the film be a conduit to comprehension. Let the contributors speak for themselves and let the viewer make their own discoveries and connections.
The BBC used to be rather good at this sort of programme making but as they seem to have abandoned audiences with a sentient cortex they are now very hard to find in the schedules.
@@LEMANPRODUCTIONSARCHIVE Sadly, what you say about the BBC is totally correct, in my opinion.
Hey! I was in this! Lovely to see it again. Thank you.
which part? I wish they'd make a new documentary on Sir Scott.
@@Sams911 That's me (looking pale and undernourished) at 08.15
@@heliopolis haha... you looked like a normal young man
Thank you for posting what an inspirational documentary
Marvelous! Marvelous presentation of his life and significance. It well filled in the gaps or further explained circumstances of his life and history as I had previously known and understood it! Thank you so much! Just wonderful!
Thank you very much.
My 10th great grandfather is Sir Walter’s 6 th great grandfather.. my family came to Charleston SC in 1750’s.
When I was a child, I read "Ivanhoe"--but suspect it was in a bowdlerized version for little kids, because I had also read Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped"--and at the time *thought* that I understood and enjoyed it. However, as an adult, I've reread the latter work and found that that it was so much tied up with Scottish history that I could not have really understood it. I wonder now if the same thing would happen if I went back to "Ivanhoe," or to any of Scott's other novels.
Very interesting and well done.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing.
This man is my like 14th great grandpa
Viewers might find this of interest - Scotlands 'forgotten best selling author" : www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyldjm18e6o
Hey! So was I! I was a handsome devil : ) The last time I travelled to Edinburgh I noticed 2 women sat side by side in the train, one in blue, the other in red. Never before in my life nor since that day have train doors refused to open(!?) forcing us to continue on and get out at Waverley Station. Random Coincidence? I'm thinking not. In my next life 1835-61, I was an Attorney at Law.
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if I wanted someone to experience Scotts genius I would never suggest they read "waverly" first (thats the novel "waverly" not the "waverly novels") It would've put me off him immediately, they should read "Old Mortality" first if they want an idea of why Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, Irving, and every other author on the planet read Scott and chose to write like him.."Waverly" isn't devoid of interest, but it isn't Scott. (mind you I haven't read his more known ones, ivanhoe etc, but I plan to.)
Scott was a pragmatist
Psychometry, touch the tapestry of the past.
Such a shame that Trump is allowed to make money off such a great land and culture.