British Council Film: Oxford (1941)

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British Council Film: Oxford (1941)

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From British Council Film:
For more than seven hundred years Oxford has existed as a centre of learning and culture. But it is not only a city of the past, loving and caring for its great traditions; it is also a city of the present and the future. its streets are thronged with the young men and women who one day will provide Britain's scholars, scientists, and statesmen. In the University, students from far off parts of the Empire, rich men's sons, and scholarship winners from Britain's industrial areas share alike the knowledge and culture offered by the University.

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@MikeMike-hx3gm Жыл бұрын

My uncle John Grattan Geary won a scholarship to study the classics at Balliol. Early 1930s. In the war he was a captain and fought in Burma. By circa 1950 he was to teach Latin at Queens College Taunton. John born about 1911 died 1985. I still miss him.

@countfosco8535 3 ай бұрын

Oh glory days. I remember them like they were yesterday.

@davidharwood9552 3 ай бұрын

I’m bemused by your character name. I agree I remember Oxford when I was young. I now live in Cornwall my family and grandchildren will remember Cornwall in the same way

@Eekyellie 2 ай бұрын

My mother spent the war years in Oxford as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment). She was billeted first in the home of Major Rise, owner if Elliston and Cavells Department Store (later Debenhams). Later billeted in Lincoln College, a mens college, but they had all gone to war. She loved Oxford all her life and would visit regularly. Favourite pub The Trout at Wolvercote.

@williamevans9426 2 жыл бұрын

Odd that, in 1941, there was absolutely no mention of the war!

@bazza945 17 күн бұрын

Apparently they were told, "DO NOT MENTION THE WAR!"

@GG-hu9dn 2 ай бұрын

More innocent, and simple time. How it's changed, and not really for the better??

@jasoncromwell4206 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Watching this you wonder how many of those boys made it until 1946? Yep you could learn from a couple of guys named Lewis and Tolkien apparently,? Wouldn't that have been a wonder?

@ConradAinger 8 күн бұрын

Music by Vaughan Williams, The Wasps. Written for an Oxford production of the play by Aristophenes.

@joeywhite6975 2 жыл бұрын

It's really cool seeing this because I've actually been in some of those scenes

@pressurewashingcompany Жыл бұрын

how old are you?

@bwabymafia Жыл бұрын

It's so sad to know that nearly every single person in this film are no longer with us.

@BBC600 2 жыл бұрын

Well if a Manitoban can make it to Oxford then perhaps a Saskatchewanian can too. I would love to study there. It’s been my dream since I was little.

@tomarmstrong1281 2 ай бұрын

'Women too have the same opportunities as men'. How the world is changing.

@davidkennedy8929 2 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Hogwarts school! Wish I could have been there 😊

@simonirvine1628 27 күн бұрын

What the Devil, no going down to the park on the Cowley Rd to score.

@gabriellebaalke6704 Жыл бұрын

'Empire lands...'

@ymtsalegassem.4723 3 жыл бұрын

How did they edit those name.

@arvinjohntorres2945 3 жыл бұрын

What names?

@ianhudson2193 Ай бұрын

Perhaps messes Metcalf and Connell would like to express their failing respect and intolerance on here rather than emailing me directly.......

@davidharwood9552 5 ай бұрын

I was born 1954 in Oxford. I can remember the culture. Memories. Today you would struggle to find a traditional white British citizen. How times have changed

@missasinenomine 3 ай бұрын

Harwood. Any relation to Basil?

@davidharwood9552 3 ай бұрын

@@missasinenomineThankyou for your comment. My grandfather was Alfred Edward Harwood born London but relocated to Oxford. My father took my grandfather’s name. I have never tried doing my family history but I did notice Basils father had the name Edward. 🤔

@countfosco8535 3 ай бұрын

Not true. I live in Oxford.

@davidharwood9552 3 ай бұрын

@@countfosco8535 maybe 🤔 you don’t walk Cowley Road. Blackbird Leys. Headington. Covered market. Tell me do you get out with the name Count maybe you are like 🧛‍♂️ only at night

@countfosco8535 3 ай бұрын

@@davidharwood9552 Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco. Once eccentric, bombastic, urbane, intelligent, menacing, and mysterious. Last person to traverse Cornmarket Street in an automobile and escape the clutches of the law. Now retired and lying doggo, main features are decency and propriety.

@turtleflipper9935 10 ай бұрын

that one kid cooking meth in his room

@mosttealifaa2288 3 жыл бұрын

5:10 so me hahah

@rggary2286 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Really? You have my respect. It's really nice knowing some of the figures in this footage are still with us.

@g.p616 3 ай бұрын

WTF! Why weren’t they fighting? Surely by 1941 they were calling up under 21s?!

@racheinderbys Ай бұрын

Not all of them (medical exemptions etc.) and I think at first you could choose to defer until after your studies. The rules changed a bit in December 1941. Also I don't think the Canadian chap at the beginning, nor the women featured, would have been subject to conscription in 1941.

@kitsandham7001 Күн бұрын

Some folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord, don't they help themselves, oh But when the taxman comes to the door Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no Some folks inherit star spangled eyes Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord And when you ask them, "How much should we give?" Ooh, they only answer "More! More! More!" yoh It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, one It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no.

@helenalismore-sams1803 Жыл бұрын

ship them off to war

@imranmoonis 3 жыл бұрын

Two words: Kim Philby :)

@TS-qc7ny 3 жыл бұрын

Two words: Other Place :)

@Alexa-vo4kk 2 жыл бұрын

The clue was in the name they where given, the cambridge 5.

@bluegtturbo 3 ай бұрын

Mostly a complete waste of time... Study a lot of old nonsense that had no application in the real world.

@nikkonch Ай бұрын

Is that you Mr Gradgrind?

@None-zc5vg Ай бұрын

I found that out in the '60s, having to listen to a tutor rabbiting on about Bob Dylan [even back then!] instead of concentrating on things more relevant to the degree course. He thought there was 'profundity' in the singer's lyrics and still does (at age 90). Probably the only person at my college to make the big time was a Welshman (like his tutor) who moved to France and slept [via the billionairess-owner of a cosmetics company] his way to a multi-million franc fortune.

@bucknutty952 2 жыл бұрын

The real British men were fighting nazis at this time, not lollygagging around old books.

@coreydolan3239 2 жыл бұрын

Your ignorance is risible.

@Gunnar_Gunnarson 3 ай бұрын

You need to take a visit to Oxford. Every college has a war memorial listing the students who gave their lives in both wars. Oxford men did their part.

@bistacrank1173 Ай бұрын

Some perhaps......but many, such as RVJones at the Claredon Labority, were grappling with the issues of low temperature physics (what we now call infra-red), providing input toward radar, deciphering the radio navigation systems tye Germans were using to bomb with and later, as CFI RAF, trying to keep ahead of the German V1 & V2 projects...... ......not for nothing also using his knowledge in discussion with other garaduates he knew at Imperial Tube (cover organisation for Nuclear Physics Research) to try and keep tabs on German attempts to develop a nuclear pile reactor... @bluegtturbo 2