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How To Improve Immigrants English (1940s Instructional Film)
How To Improve Immigrants English (1940s Instructional Film) HD. Originally called 48 Paddington Street, British Pathe issued this as a cinema newsreel in the 1940s, although it was produced by British Instructional Films Ltd Today the video comes across as quite harsh in its tone, and looks a little racist perhaps. Others have said the clip looks like the basis for a Two Ronnies sketch. Several comedy characters in recent years such as Matt Lucas Marjorie Dawes in Little Britain or Catherine Tate s translator have parodied this kind of attitude towards people who speak English as a second language. Produced by British Instructional Films Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, for British Pathe Ltd. Directed by Mary Field Photographed by Frank Mundy Recordist D. Howells Cast: The Professor A. Lloyd James (Secretary to the BBC Committee on Spoken English) The Student Dr. M. D. Ratnasuriya B. A.. Subscribe to British Pathe: Follow us on Twitter:
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