Sir Walter Scott - “The Wizard of the North” - BBC Omnibus
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- 2021 marks the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott, the world’s first international best selling author.
The inventor of the historical romance influencing writers from Dickens to Tolstoy, Sir Walter Scott became known as “The Wizard of the North” because of his incredible powers of invention, and his adventure stories took the world by storm.
With readings from:
The Young Lochinvar
The Lady of the Lake
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Rob Roy
Waverley
The Heart of Midlothian
Ivanhoe
Writer Allan Massie
Narrator Hannah Gordon
ActorsTom Flemming, Crawford Logan
Contributors
Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott
Mrs Patricia Maxwell-Scott
Ian Rankin - Thriller Writer
Phillipa Gregory - Historical Novelist
David Cunningham - University of Glasgow
Gerard Caruthers
Douglas Gifford - Professor of Literature, University of Glasgow
Peter MacDonald - Tartan expert
Rostrum - Malcom Paris
Dubbing Mixer - Cy Jack
Sound - Allan Young
Lighting - Donny Campbell, Michale Carr
Camera Assistant - Chris Burns
Production Assistant - Jane Singleton
AP - Mhairi McNeill
Photography - Michael Miles, Mark Smith
Film Editor - Jan Leman
Series Editor - Nigel Walters
Produced and Directed by Louise Wardle
BBC Scotland for BBC network. First shown as part of BBC Omnibus 10/2/1997. Shot on 16mm Eastmancolour, Stereo and saved from VHS!
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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!
Thank you very much.
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.
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!
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
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
Scott was a pragmatist
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.
Next?
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.)
Psychometry, touch the tapestry of the past.
Such a shame that Trump is allowed to make money off such a great land and culture.