HOW TO MAKE A FILM
G., B. SHAW TALKS TO AMERICANS
(From The Guardian's London
Correspondent)
LONDON, October 8
This week Mr Bernard Shaw made a short film in London on the spur of the moment, for American audiences only, as a trailer for the talkie version of "Pygmalion." When he attended the press view of this adaptation of his play he was unexpectedly asked to say a few words for the benefit of those who will see the film in the United States.
"Ah, my American friends," he said as he walked boldly into the glare of the arc lamps, 'do you mind if I sit down? I'm very old. "You know, I've suffered a good deal from America in this matter of films," he began. "Now I'm going to show you how to make a film. For years they've been trying to teach me. There's one thing, though, American film people have never dreamed of doing. They send foF an electrician when the light is wrong. If they don't like the photograph they send for another photographer. But they never send for the author. If you like 'Pygmalion' you will come and see it twenty times. Then, if you do that, we will make 'The Devil's Disciple,' and 'Caesar and Cleopatra,' I've educated America and all, the nations but the Americans most of all. ..."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 3
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