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Original video of C.S. Lewis?

Cleander
(@the-mad-poet-himself)
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Hey Narniawebbers,

As I type this I'm listening to the actual recorded voice of C.S. Lewis! :-o A few of his radio broadcasts are on Youtube, as I just discovered. :D :D
What I was wondering is if any actual video recordings of Lewis exist today, or if any were ever recorded. I can't seem to find any online. Does anyone know if there are/is any?

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Topic starter Posted : August 21, 2019 3:31 pm
coracle
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Video didn't exist as such in his lifetime.
He may have been filmed but I have not heard of it before.

You could look in the media section of Into The Wardrobe website.

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Posted : August 23, 2019 7:46 am
Cleander
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I checked Into the Wardrobe and only found pictures of him in the "media" section.
If you search "CS Lewis video" you normally get documentaries.
I was wondering if he or someone in his household would have made home videos... but my brother suggested that ol' Jack might not have been quite the type to have new-fangled video cameras about the house. I mean, we're talking about the guy who preferred horses to cars. Seriously. :D

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Topic starter Posted : August 25, 2019 3:45 pm
coracle
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I'll try to find out for you, but I suspect that your brother is right in this. Even a 'Box Brownie' camera was pretty good technology in the 40s.

Did you check out the audio parts?

http://cslewis.drzeus.net/multimedia/

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : August 26, 2019 3:28 am
Cleander
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Ah yes, some of those were included in the radio recordings I found earlier. Good to hear Jack's voice- I'm just a bit disappointed that no actual video of him seems to exist.

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Topic starter Posted : August 27, 2019 11:29 am
coracle
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It seems he may have been filmed on an old cine camera by a visitor once, but I assume that it has not survived all those years.

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : August 28, 2019 6:00 am
Cleander
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Do you know who might have filmed said video?

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Topic starter Posted : August 28, 2019 11:26 am
coracle
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No, I doubt it could now be traced. It would be on fashioned film (the kind that is filmed on hand held home movie camera), and it probably perished over time. The person who mentioned it in something I read, said they didn't remember who had the camera, and that the film was probably no longer in existence.
I think that's the end of that. But you can watch several good presentations of Jack Lewis by excellent actors. The BBC TV film of Shadowlands (1980s) starring Joss Ackland, and the movie of the same name (about 1990) starring Anthony Hopkins, give a good idea of his character, even though some of the story is invented.

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : August 29, 2019 10:46 am
hwmyers8
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@coracle I gotta know, do you remember where you read about that visitor with a cine camera? Maybe in a book, biography or article? I'm dying to know!

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Posted : July 26, 2024 9:23 pm
coracle
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@hwmyers8 no, but I'll try to find out. 

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : July 26, 2024 11:23 pm
Narnian78
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Video tape was invented in 1951 according to Wikipedia, but probably no videos were taken of C. S. Lewis and if they did they most likely would not have survived.  It would be decades before home videos were made of family events.  People did have home movies, but they were expensive and not used that often at that time.  It would be great if some of Lewis’s talks were on video, but I am afraid they don’t exist except for a few audio broadcasts. It’s kind of sad that we only have still pictures and audio.

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Posted : August 1, 2024 7:24 am
hwmyers8
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@coracle Just wanted to check in and see if you'd been able to remember where you read about that video? 

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Posted : September 26, 2024 9:20 am
coracle
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@hwmyers8 sorry, I think that it was a one-off online, or else something I was told by a person I don't have a contact with now. 

I don't think I can help you. I suspect it would have been a little home cine camera of the 1950s.

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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