SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CREATOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES RARE

[ChrisLeuchtturm]

I wish I could have met him. 

[hilariouswar]

I cannot believe my eyes. it's him! IT'S REALLY HIM!! oh dear God he is extraordinary!

[WinterBornActual]

How extraordinary it is to have a video of this most famous man for posterity!!

[UlsekevanSnape]

Doyle is genius.....Sherlock Holmes also :D

[xUbastardx]

Read 'em all, loved em all, time and time again. I think it's so cool when the right people get knighted, Doyle was the right person, as is Pratchett.

[psychoticmagician]

do you think maybe.. possibly.... most certainly.. he liked me??? :( no one does. 

[JuliatheCoolest]

I wouldn't have guessed that he was Scottish!

[MrAnimusVox]

Gay

[RizeMeteor]

GENIUS!!!!! PURE GENIUS!!!!!!!

[RizeMeteor]

@mustang3744 how is THAT boring? if its borign why are u even here? O.O

[MikeAM78]

Wow. I never would have guessed there was actually a filmed interview with Doyle. Very awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[Queenmotherett]

Wonderful! I never imagined to hear that man's voice, ever! Thank you!!!

[2206411411]

Ah, now this is fascinating. ACD got into writing Sherlock Holmes in precisely the same way as JRR Tolkien got into writing fantasy - a frustration and an irritation with the writers around him. Neither felt that their predecessors or contemporaries really took the writing seriously. ACD clearly wanted to strive for perfection where the other detective story writers strove for adequate. In all important respects, I'd say he achieved that.

[dentalconsonant]

He is totally Awesome! It's so good to hear his voice!

[chevalvivant]

Magnificent to hear him, love reading all the Holmes adventures.

[chevalvivant]

Magnificent to hear him, love reading all the Holmes adventures.

[kirstensanny]

What a rare gem! Wonderful to see! Thanks for posting!

[derman077]

Incredible!

[KingKengu]

how it can be "rare interview" if its in tube? :D

[2206411411]

@KingKengu Well, the interview's not medium or well-done, so that only leaves rare. :) Seriously, I take it to mean less the availability and more the number of distinct video clips that exist.

[kericamalabanan1]

love him sooo much

[svublues26]

I'm doing some research on Sherlock Holmes so it could be helpful to know who interviewed him, when, etc. thanks in advance

[Bugsyboy333]

Fascinating.

All the more so knowing my great-grandfather was 15 when this was shot.

[jamesboake]

It seems like men have problems after all for some reason culturally speaking in relation to privacy

[jamesboake]

This is probably what we mean by ressurection while still alive

[jamesboake]

Buddha probably felt the same about his imagination into self insight

[abisivepoo]

Great author, ingenious how he developed holmes style of deduction from a doctor he knew!

[tomaroony]

Whatever your views on spiritualism, he comes across as immensely warm and the epitome of the kindly grandfather figure.

Whilst he expounds his views firmly, it's done in such a gentle way.

First name on my "fantasy dinner guests" list - yes, even before Oscar.

[aliensintheloft]

@tomaroony Totally agree with you there. I'd never seen an interview with Conan Doyle or was even aware that any existed, so it was heartening to observe such a warm spirit in this clip.

[mamelucoderribado]

james moriarty made himself an account

[Fujiarmu]

"I get letters addressed to his other stupid friend, Watson."

Ha ha!

[orlando098]

@Fujiarmu

He says "his rather stupid friend"

[nexxo93]

The father of Sherlock Holmes ! <3 i Love youuuuuuu! <3 :D

[AmFilms123]

Thanks for this awesome video. Conan Doyle = amazing.

[MrBarelylethal]

Sir arthur conan doyle was JACK THE RIPPER!

[souravonline]

Thanks Anish for uploading this rare and wonderful video!

[loganberry30]

"his rather stupid friend, Watson"

RUDE! lmao

[sleedolfine15]

God! This is wonderful. I loved the Sherlock Holmes stories--all 60 of them. This like peering into another time. It's like a film of Shakespeare or Ben Franklin. Marvelous!

[zherdeva]

incredible, I didn't no that DOYLE's video exists. too much excited for words

[ozzymate666]

much appreciated, when was this?

[Electronistadotcom]

It would be nice if Doyle's legacy hadn't been tainted by spiritualism. If he were around today, I imagine he would probably be an atheist, an agnostic or a deist; at the least he would have access to material debunking seances and psychic phenomena.

[LydiSquidi]

@Electronistadotcom

I wrote my thesis on Doyle and his beliefs, and he had plenty of access to material debunking seances and psychic phenomena; he debunked more than a few of them himself. He was fully aware of the arguments of contemporary atheists and materialists, having debated some of the period's big names, like Joseph McCabe (an early-20th century Richard Dawkisn character.) Nonetheless, he remained convinced by the experiences he termed "evidential."

[k0smon]

@Electronistadotcom ::: Obviously, you are prejudiced against spiritualism. Remember, he had his own psychic experiences, and participated in psychic investigations. He sat with both good and bad mediums. He himself 'debunked' the bad mediums. There are phonies in all fields. That is why there were psychical research societies, to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I have attended 2 materialization seances- they are for real.

[ple72]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is my favourite author. Thanks posting this clip.

[R20080424]

I've posted a video response; its the same footage but I've added some notes/annotations. You're welcome to copy them and use it in your video /descriptions, Anish.

[erc911]

The genius behind the genius! A spirit of light! Lord knows ...

[FamousBirthdays]

thanks for sharing!

[pdm636]

as always, i Thank U

[NikeAurrs45]

creator of the original batman LOL Sherlock kicks Batmans ass

[matildabriggs]

Are there any subtitles for this Conan Doyle video? Thanks, friends

[gaiuskaiser]

wonderful

[crzxr]

There's A Conan Doyle at the end of the garden. Thank you.

[maxrimas]

Thank you sooooo much for uploading this video. It's marvelous. I've been a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle since I was 10 and this video really put life into my vivid imagination about this great man. Thanks again.

[nhprman]

"The sound of a vanished voice" indeed! What a wonderful rarity! Thanks for posting.

[MadHobbit]

sure would love to speak to conan doyle on the Ouija :D

[mister18cm]

I'm related to the old lad on me ma's side she's a Doyle too. His ancestral home is just over a mile from where i live in south Wexford Ireland ,it was just a stone and mud cabin.His parents emigrated during the famine to Scotland. Fuck I never saw his face before and I can see fair bit of a resemblance to me ma's da .

[theboombody]

I always risk hallucination.

I've read a wide variety of authors, and my favorite is still Lewis Carroll, but this man might very well surpass them all. Never have I seen anyone who could develop both plot and character so well. Doyle is a born storyteller. It's really no surprise that letters are addressed to Holmes instead of Doyle. That's a testimony to the power of his character development.

[smokepole68]

What a well spoken gentleman! Pure class.

[good9555]

thanx:)

[njcurmudgeon]

Some background on this movie - it was shot in October 1928, for Movietone News in his garden at his Windlesham estate with his Irish terrier, Paddy. [Source: "The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle" by Russell Miller, 2008, Thomas Dunne Books, imprint of St. Martin's Press; ISBN-13: 978-1-61523-180-5]

[Naoisevl]

It's so interesting that, in my experience anyway, and as sometimes with R L Stephenson or Barrie, so many people don't realise he was Scottish. Hence his R's. A classic posh Edinburgh accent! Lovely clip.

[KostyaCreepY]

Thank you guys for explaining. I've thought of it too, so you confirmed my thoughts =)

[njcurmudgeon]

I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan from when I was little and my grandfather gave me the collected stories. I'm reading a Doyle biography at the moment, so this is neat to actually hear the man. Like many, I found his descent into spiritualism sad, but when taken in the context of his life, it says a lot about him as a person. Many thanks for posting this video!

[k0smon]

@njcurmudgeon Why do you consider spiritualism a descent and sad? He did not consider it so. It was the most important thing in his life. He was in touch with the infinite.

[njcurmudgeon]

@k0smon Spiritualism, much like religion, is a self-delusion. It is sad that an otherwise intelligent man like Doyle - who created a cultural "poster child" for rational thought - retreated from that same rational thought into such self-delusion. It also reflects, perhaps, the emotional strain of the loss of loved ones on him. It may have made him feel better when confronted by an unsettling and mysterious concept like "death." Certainly worthy of sympathy.

[k0smon]

@njcurmudgeon You seem to be blind to people's own explanations and reasons. Your statements amount to nothing more than name-calling. You are not the expert you pretend to be.

[njcurmudgeon]

@k0smon You're entitled to your delusions.

[k0smon]

@njcurmudgeon ;;;And I share them with some very famous people.

[njcurmudgeon]

@k0smon Good for you. I don't see how that proves anything, though, since famous people can be just as wrong as unknown people.

You're not gonna convince me and I'm not gonna convince you. Enjoy the videos and have a nice life. Or afterlife, as the case may be.

[wownouser]

great stuff :)

[000266617]

Although the would love the Jeremy Brett version, don't think he would like the guy richie one coming out.

[33cheese33]

He's my great great uncle or something I have a pic of him I'm realated to him

[bardar27]

Has anyone read the recent biography about Conan-Doyle?

[njcurmudgeon]

Yup. It's pretty good, though I haven't read others so I don't have a comparison. I'd recommend it.

[Tyrel0401]

WOW! WOW! This man is my hero! :D

[Novemberkindje]

Lovely accent the man has. He seems a really pleasant man (:

Thanks for posting this!

[Kirk89Metallica]

The man himself must have been an amazing exponent of deduction to think of all those stories...And he himself handled some real cases successfully..

[deepseadirt]

Sir Arthur died shortly after this film was shot. I always remember this clip and one of the great French leader Georges Clemenceau who also died shortly after shooting his interview. Actually these are not rare , they're included in documentaries about the 20s and early sound film. It's great that they survived. I agree with Eagle45137, if we had sound film earlier we could've heard and seen people like Sarah Bernhardt, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright etc.

[kilstephen1]

he really does remind me of dr watson,must have being modeled on him for some reasonxone of the perks of the job.well done conan doyle.

[kilstephen1]

what an amazing inteligent man with great indepth knowledge and passion and love of this world,may god bless him,let the world share in his insight and books and be inlightenedxso let it begnxthe belief in the afterlife and lost and hidden worlds with anient wariors and great detetives what more could a man with a great mind imagine ,wow,i think his one of the greats in mankindxwhos like him today.

[KostyaCreepY]

He's got such a funny accent! )

[MrPSGifford]

How so?

[KostyaCreepY]

I'm not English, so I can be wrong, but his pronunciation sounds weird for me. His pronunciation of 'r', for example. I think it's very different from the modern way of speaking. Or it's a pronunciation of an area? For example, as I know, Irish pronunciation is different from British. Can someone explain it to me?

[gragrn]

I believe it was usual for Victorian era people of a certain social class and education to roll their R's.

[njcurmudgeon]

That's true, but he was also a Scot, which probably contributes to the accent.

[gragrn]

Thanks for the input.

[njcurmudgeon]

He was from Scotland, so it's probably a combination of a Scottish accent with the "proper" way a Victorian era gentleman was expected to speak. He was very much a man of the Victorian era.

[inkstersco]

@KostyaCreepY

Edinburgh accent, similar to my own.



[captainmayde]

Insuperable Conan! Thanx for sharing :)

[britman20]

Thanks ! Very rare ...

[nightwing01]

"is other stupid friend, Watson"

HA!!

[Novemberkindje]

Haha, I thought I had misheard that, but apparently I didn't :P

[eagle45137]

I wish we had sound film a lot earlier as so many famous people and ordinary people would be great to talk to them and hear them.

[EGLchan]

What people?

[TCsphinx]

this is really great - but Conan Doyle was much more than just a writer & famous spiritualist, he was a doctor, real life sleuth, politician, amateur cricketer (outbowled WG Grace), social reform campaigner, court of appeal advocate, war veteran, and amongst other things introduced skiing as a sport, he was ridiculed for that until it became popular. Pity there aren't any politicians like him today - he wasn't perfect but he was honest and idealistic. Thank you for this it's a gem.

[Sehaw]

wonderful! thank you for posting!

[tommyblank]

Wow, this is really cool!

[MVeyn]

wow.. i didn't know something like that existed.. thanks for putting it up

[uranrising]

According to the 'net, the Light article was published in 1887, and he says that was '41 ears ago', so the tape dates to 1928. That fits with his saying he's doing a voice test, talkies having been fully launched in '27.

And not any old birthday - he was 150 yesterday.

Thanks as ever for the tape.

[acerb45666555]

society wants an immaculate icon of strength, decency, and fortitude. thats why many like to think Sherlock Holmes was real!

[WomaninBlack215]

This is about as close to seeing the 'real' Sherlock Holmes as anyone could ever get. Did you know Doyle actually helped solve a real murder case using the Sherlock Holmes methods? But everything he did, he did to gain publicity and awareness on spiritualism. I like the fact that he became more fond of Holmes after he found he could help in his own cause (up until then he had hated him so much, he killed him off in 'The Final Problem'!)

R.I.P. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[kaisenji]

Och! Man's scottish is really showing here. I love it. Would have been very interesting to sit down and talk to him about all sorts of matters. I find it fasinating that someone who is educated man of science matters was so into Spiritualism. Where's a time machine when ya need it?

[Misakichifan]

Thank you so much! Really appreciate this, and others. =)

[RoughStarFilms]

I'd have liked to hear more on Prof. Challenger.

[2000Erich]

The professor Doyle was inspired from was named Dr. Joseph Bell. I know a little about him. But his family line is very esteemed, even to this day. Ever eat at Taco Bell? (Im dead serious)

[JPLOWMAN2]

Taco Bell? How could a mexican fast food chain have any relation to an english scientist?

[2000Erich]

His family line went into the buisiness. Dr. Bell was also related to Alexzander Graham Bell.

[herringfly]

JPLOWMAN2

"How could a mexican fast food chain have any relation to an english scientist?"

Dr. Joseph Bell was Scottish, as was Arthur Conan Doyle, not English.

[tubeindividual]

He was a wonderful, kindly man. Everyone loved him. Also a great natural athlete, he was always participating in sports. A big strong healthy man. Despite that, he passed away at age 61, 20 years younger than me, who is in terrible shape! So unfair.

[HurricaneHeidi]

He looks older than age 60 in this video... I don't know how old he actually was when he sat for this. Odds are, the man SMOKED (as most men did in his time) and THAT is what aged him prematurely and caused his early death. It affects not just the lungs, but the entire cardio-vascular-pulminary system.

[DrZenith]

I believe he was a non-smoker; but in those days a life expectancy of 71 was quite usual for men. Don't forget that since 1950 life expectancy has increased by around 2 years for every decade due to the progress in medecin and medical treatment.

[DrZenith]

Conan Doyle was all you say but, since he was born in 1859 and died in 1930 this means he was 71 not 61 as you say.