Welcome to the official Omnibus With Alistair Cooke channel on RU-vid - Featuring the landmark series broadcast live across the US from 1952 to 1961. Here we’ll look back at the award-winning collection of social, political, and cultural highlights from the mid-20th century, the most remarkable assembly of talent ever presented on American screens.
For clip licensing opportunities please visit www.globalimageworks.com/omnibus-collection
It's crazy that such a specific snapshot of a time can still be hilarious over 60 years later. A guy slips on a banana peel, that's golden. A bit about coin-operated telephones and real life operators? But it works. I gotta dig up more of this.
Remember watching and loving the Omnibus program in the early years when only 5 or 6 years old. Amazing performances and variety. So happy to find this channel.
Both the playing style and conducting style have changed a lot. I’m glad the camera man focussed on the conductor somewhat so I could really see it. The seating arrangement helped a lot for that.
As a nascent fan of Gilbert & Sullivan for the past 3 years, I delight in discovering new Companies' interpretations and this is a cracking great one. Blessing the day I discovered Martyn Green!
When multi-track (2`track) recordings appeared in the 50's, the children of musicians remember how their parents told them not to listen to it, that it was an insult to music and a deception. Imagine them now if they listened to autotune with the AI voice of a dead man.
You have to say RU-vid is amazing. This was exactly what I was looking for. Speaking of Cooke it's a shame that one thing you can't find is his perfect introductions to Masterpiece Theatre. (Nor Danger Man with the American credits.)
All waltzes should be written and conducted in six-eight time; their 'gestalt' is compound duple time but forced to fit unnaturally into simple triple time.
