Oliver Wakefield (1936)

London. Exterior shots of BBC Broadcasting House. Shots of man conducting dance band. Shots of Oliver Wakefield, comedian, with his ’halting, stuttering and amusing quippy style’. Oliver Wakefield is a young man in full evening dress who speaks in an ’upper class’ manner with a ’halting, stuttering’ style of delivery. He stutters and mixes up his words throughout. He tries to make a rousing speech about the World Situation and grasping opportunity. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the en