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An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 8:31 am
by Groucho
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=87 ... =2&theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPlBfXiiqFY
I just love the plummy English - Listen to his pronunciation of land as 'lind'.... a hoot.
See if you can spot Barry 'Snakes'...
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 10:57 am
by Owl Lady
I spotted him!! Can anyone tell me was the voice narrating that of Bob Danvers Walker?
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 11:28 am
by Keithcaley
Owl Lady wrote:..Can anyone tell me was the voice narrating that of Bob Danvers Walker?
I don't think so, he started work in 1927 as a station announcer in Australia, and that film was produced in 1930.
He seems to have done the voice-overs for Pathe News Films from 1940 onwards, and that just didn't sound like him to me...
I did love the pronunciation of 'Monasteries' though
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 5:51 pm
by Owl Lady
Thanks, thought the film was great anyway, and the commentators BBC English just brilliant!!.
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 6:21 pm
by Kanonier
Received pronunciation. No H&S for the young lad ringing the school bell and I am sure I spotted the hire car that I had when first I visited in 2000!
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Sun 25 Jan 2015 8:00 pm
by dippersgirl
Wonderful!!! the 'educational and patronising' voice !!!!!!
The comment about the women's patchwork sleeves would create a media storm now!!!
Re: An old Pathe News clip about Cyprus - 1939
Posted: Mon 26 Jan 2015 5:28 am
by Keithcaley
dippersgirl wrote:...The comment about the women's patchwork sleeves would create a media storm now!!!
...Only in 'Woman's Weekly'...
