Sherlock Holmes Baffled

[shadowyfigure100]

alas, it's Sherlock Holmes in name only. with no Moriarty or Lestrade or Mrs. Hudson or even WATSON, for cryin' out loud, and about as much plot as a toaster instruction manual (not to mention a thoroughly UN-Sherlockian premise that would make more sense on The Twilight Zone or something), i'm afraid this is a most inauspicious film debut for The Great Consulting Detective.

[GreenLantern481]

lol I like that Sherlocke immediately tried to shoot the guy for pulling that Nightcrawler **** .

[TherealJimmyjammy]

Rotten Tomatoes brought me here.

[patjoethebaker]

at the time these effects probably would have been considered amazing

[Epichydra]

wikipedia again!



[prisionnerofsociety]

Glad to see there's only one asshole that dislike this.

[protaschu]

Thumbs up if wikipedia brought you here!

[TheGreatZurEnRaah]

This is actually a remarkable movie for It's time. I absolutely love sherlock Holmes, so amazing to see this film.

[Zeanu]

I liked the book better.

[SoraTheHappyEmo]

Eat your heart out, Robert Downey Jr.

[FegeleinsRevenge]

hahaha wikipedia

[Startrekboy1138]

they should show stuff like this at theaters before movies instead of stupid trivia questions.

[Startrekboy1138]

Who doesn't like wikipedia? Nobody, that's who.

[endlessepic]

Wow, meant to hit the thumbs up that Wikipedia brought me here but hit the thumbs up. So that really can happen.

[lucklessluke]

surely theres some more I know wikippedia said it was a short film but just of 50 seconds!

[ohmss069]

Horse shit ending!

[WallKenshiro]

so the first sherlock holmes film was a science fiction movie! teleportin theives! it mustve been set in a future time where thieves have access to teleport technology or in a world where random magic shit is normal cos holmes is not as bafflled or as scared as he should be.

[NIDORAX]

The thief is a spy!

[EmilyE257]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lost tale: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ninja!

[R3M073]

thumbs up if Wikipedia brought you here!

[vgman94]

@R3M073 Thumbed up then. =) Did you see it on "Today's featured article" section? I did. Normally I ignore those types of things to find other things I have my mind on but this was so fascinating I had to come back to it and find out.

[R3M073]

@vgman94 yup, that's how I came to it...i was just looking around seeing what was going on in the world and thought "Sherlock Holmes' first video??!! I have to see this!"

[vgman94]

@R3M073 LOL. And I was fascinated as well. This is getting a lot of views because of that posting. Anyway, they say this is also the first detective movie ever. Not that there was much detecting. XD I wonder why this is so short. It's like a trailer to a movie than an actual movie. In my opinion, anyway.

[BigAngeloSantorini]

People are so trigger happy in old films.

[Glaruf]

@BigAngeloSantorini Oh come on it was clearly a witch.

[cjgone2]

Lol, I found this from wikipedia and because i'm a curious lil' fellow, I looked it up here. :)

[urbania70]

The first detective movie... and if features an element of fantasy and f/x!

[hitlerlovedjews11]

so pointless lol

[Sotnas]

Damn, that really is a short film.

[Koolkitties]

I love the terrible timing in the end where it just stops.

[frequently80]

Same here. Wikipedia too. Better than some

movies these days

[PositiveChillout]

Wikipedia brought me here.

[wEpicumw]

@PositiveChillout me too

[ar4216]

@PositiveChillout

Me too! Pretty cool.

[roboneko77]

Better than Avatar

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Thanks for the upload.

1900. This footage is 110 years old!

[greypilgrim26]

amazing... even from the very first moments of film, there he was... It's insane the amount of versions of Sherlock Holmes have been done over the years and over the world.

Conan Doyle may not have thought much of his creation, but you just have to look at the list of actors who've played him to see that Holmes is one of the greatest characters ever created.

Freaky.

[Hotshotter3000]

Fact: This movie was made before Opium was officially banned in a lot of countries. That could explain what was in Holmes's pipe.

[proceedapathy]

Do you know if there's a DVD set of the Edison films?

[GB21599]

Can you upload it again without the logo "Dondanillo collection".

[ThreePipeProblem]

Holy...this is really rare, where did you found this? Just on dvd/video? Or is it to remain your secret? ;)

Anyway, thank for posting this most excellent material, a must for every sherlock holmes fan :D

5*

[fideliox76]

i'm a Sherlock Holmes collector. This is an extract from an dvd collection of old movies...

[ThreePipeProblem]

Aha oki, thank you ^^

[quiksix25]

My professor just told me that this is one of the first examples of metafiction on film. Very cool that you posted it, very cool.

[SuPrecioUnosDolares]

Related trivia: did you know that Mack Sennett, the pioneer of film comedy, played Sherlock Holmes in 11 short silent films. They were of course parodies,& most are probably lost.

[Sandeep1359]

did he ever say what movie theater it was

[FernandoAlonsodotcom]

ha, my great-grand father saw this movie in the theatre in 1905 when he was 8. My grand father told me that.

[PanpipeLover]

@FernandoAlonsodotcom That's quite interesting - 105 years ago! Although it's possible it was this film, if your great grandfather saw a Sherlock film in a cinema in 1905, he may have seen the second early Holmes film instead, called "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held to Ransom", which was the first to be shown in movie theatres as opposed to Mutoscope machines. Wonder what that film was like?

[sherlockwannabe]

An amazing bit of Sherlockiana. the first Holmes movie. Wow!

[robzillafobia]

hahahahaha hmmmmm quite random. any ideas what the plot is?

[elperromagico]

I think the subtitle of this was "Cocaine's A Helluva Drug" ;-)

[M197]

THis is AWESOME!

[cha5]

Very nice, 1903 eh?

The year Holmes retired LOL,

Thanks for this unique bit of history.

[Sherlockrulez]

not wanting to sound...busybody-ish, but I believe Holmes retired in 1904...

[cha5]

Not a problem, I believe that most Sherlockians feel Holmes retired

in September 1903, However some feel it was in 1904, One reason alot of them pick 1903 is because Holmes wanted to keep his return from the dead somewhat unknown to the general public and it's thought he had forbidden any publication in The Strand Magazine of his post 'Great Hiatus' cases until after his retirement, The first of these 'The Adventure Of The Empty House' wasn't published until Oct 1903.

[cha5]

It's thought the main reason that Holmes had forbidden any publication of his post

'Great Hiatus' cases from 1894-1903 is because he didn't want the criminal underworld to know of his return, But with Moriarty's death and Moran's capture it really wasn't something that one could keep a secret, A far more likely explanation is that Holmes really hated Watson's published accounts of his cases and the phenomenon Watson and Conan Doyle had created.

[cha5]

Holmes only agreed to the publication of 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' between

1901-1902 on the condition that it was made clear that it was a case which had occurred prior to 'The Great Hiatus' in the late 1880s,

Although some Sherlockians these days think THOTB might have actually occurred after

'The Great Hiatus' in say 1899,

Sherlockian chronology and dating the cases is a pretty tricky thing though

as any Sherlockian knows.

[davefoely]

Sweet!Been curious about this film and have never seen it!Thanks for making my day,fidelox76!

[Halloran1]

Amazing :)

[scifigeek]

Erm..interesting.

[9superfan99]

One of the greatest things I've ever seen- can't wait for the remake!

[EmoCuts]

that video is so awsome!!! its funny the robber just keeps dissapearing!lol!!

[Sherlockrulez]

omg cool!! Is this the really the first Sherlock Holmes movie!?!!

[fideliox76]

yes, this is the first Sherlock Holmes movie!!!